OU researchers developing new tool to detect cancer August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Early cancer detection can significantly improve survival rates. Current diagnostic tests often fail to detect cancer in the earliest stages and at the same time expose a patient to the harmful effects of radiation. Led by ... | |
PSA screening may be biased against obese men, leading to more aggressive cancers August 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Testing men for elevated levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the blood -- the gold standard screening test for prostate cancer -- may be biased against obese men, whose PSA levels tend to be deceptively low. And ... | |
Moisturisers cause skin cancer in mice: study August 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Moisturisers used by millions of people induced skin cancer in experiments on mice, a study released Thursday said, as experts expressed strong doubts over any possible risk to humans from creams. | |
Positive thinking may protect against breast cancer August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Feelings of happiness and optimism play a positive role against breast cancer. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Cancer suggests that while staying positive has a protective role, adverse life ... | |
Scientists use old enemy to K.O. cancer August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Chemists are pulling cancer onto a sucker punch by getting infected cells to drop their guard – according to research published today. They are using the metal ruthenium as a catalyst to a cancer-busting reaction which calls ... | |
Landmark study opens door to new cancer, aging treatments August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Researchers at The Wistar Institute have deciphered the structure of the active region of telomerase, an enzyme that plays a major role in the development of nearly all human cancers. The landmark achievement opens the door ... | |
FDA investigates possible Vytorin link to cancer August 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients' risk of developing cancer. | |
Key to Treating Cancer May Be Finding its Original Cell August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer biologists are turning their attention to the normal cells that give rise to cancers, to learn more about how tumor growth might be stopped at the earliest opportunity. | |
Cancer cells with a long breath: seeking the origin of brain tumors in children August 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Medulloblastoma is one of the most common and most malignant brain tumours among children and teenagers. These tumours grow very rapidly, and fifty percent of patients in the long term die from the condition. The details ... | |
New insights into the regulation of PTEN tumor suppression function August 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
The PTEN tumor suppressor gene controls numerous biological processes including cell proliferation, cell growth and death. But PTEN is frequently lost or mutated; in fact, alteration of the gene is so common among various ... | |
Researcher aim to 'unmask' cancer cells to trigger body's immune system August 20, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Cancer cells are deadly traitors, good cells gone bad. They evade the body's defense systems, passing themselves off as organisms that pose no threat. | |
Hair on a man's head offers clues about prostate cancer August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Some of the drugs given to many men during their fight against prostate cancer can actually spur some cancer cells to grow, researchers have found. The findings were published online this week in a pair of papers in the Proceedings ... | |
Women exposed to negative life events at greater risk of breast cancer August 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Happiness and optimism may play a role against breast cancer while adverse life events can increase the risk of developing the disease, according to a study by Professor Ronit Peled, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ... | |
Normalizing tumor vessels to improve cancer therapy August 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Chemotherapy drugs often never reach the tumors they're intended to treat, and radiation therapy is not always effective, because the blood vessels feeding the tumors are abnormal—"leaky and twisty" in the words of the late ... | |
Scientists discover new link in pathway to cancer: hope for drug design August 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester scientists have identified an exciting connection between a cell’s extracellular environment and the activity of a signalling pathway molecule that controls the development of organs ... | |
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