Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer, suggesting a potential role for the agent in breast cancer ... | |
Cancer researchers call for ethnicity to be taken into account July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in today's Lancet (18 July) by researchers from Imperial ... | |
Magnolia compound hits elusive target in cancer cells July 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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A natural compound from magnolia cones blocks a pathway for cancer growth that was previously considered "undruggable," researchers have found. | |
Researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the ... | |
Not the protein, but its location in the cell, determines the onset of leukemia July 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Scientists are still searching for the cause of many forms of Leukemia, including T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. VIB researchers connected to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered that the carcinogenic ... | |
Researchers show antibody to breast cancer-secreted protein blocks metastasis July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have made a key discovery about the mechanism of breast cancer metastasis, the process by which cancer spreads. Focusing on a gene dubbed ... | |
 Protein thought to promote cancer instead functions as a tumor suppressor July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A protein previously thought to promote colorectal cancer instead suppresses the growth of human cancer cells in culture, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. | |
Researchers find molecule that kills kidney cancer cells July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ. | |
Designer diet for prostate cancer July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Eating one or more portions of broccoli every week can reduce the risk of prostate cancer, and the risk of localised cancer becoming more aggressive. | |
Death, division or cancer? Newly discovered checkpoint process holds the line in cell division July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Each day, a staggering number of cells perform a feat that still amazes researchers with its complexity: they divide to produce perfect replicas of each other. The process is called mitosis, and an inability to control it ... | |
Discovery of gene mechanism could bring about new ways to treat metastatic cancer July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have uncovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24), induces a bystander effect that kills cancer cells ... | |
Cancer cells revert to normal at specific signal threshold, researchers find July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Cancer starts when key cellular signals run amok, driving uncontrolled cell growth. But scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine report that lowering levels of one cancer signal under a specific threshold ... | |
Higher coffee consumption associated with lower liver cancer risk June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A new large, prospective population-based study confirms an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and liver cancer risk. The study also found that higher levels of gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) in the blood were ... | |
New clinical trial for patients with asbestos-associated lung cancer June 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The Mesothelioma Center within the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center is now recruiting patients for a clinical research study of a new targeted ... | |
Faulty DNA repair could be a risk factor for lung cancer in nonsmokers June 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
People who have never smoked but whose cells cannot efficiently repair environmental insults to DNA are at higher risk of developing lung cancer than those with effective genomic repair capability, according to researchers ... | |
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