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 cells spread by releasing 'bubbles' April 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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A new fundamental mechanism of how tumour cells communicate has just been discovered by the team of Dr. Janusz Rak at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) in collaboration with Dr Guha from ... | |
 Researchers uncover key trigger for potent cancer-fighting marine product January 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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An unexpected discovery in marine biomedical laboratories at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to new, key information about the fundamental biological processes inside a marine organism ... | |
Jefferson researchers uncover new way nature turns genes on and off December 27, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Peering deep within the cells of fruit flies, developmental biologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia may have discovered a new way that genes are turned on and off during development. ... | |
Does too much sun cause melanoma? July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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We are continuously bombarded with messages about the dangers of too much sun and the increased risk of melanoma (the less common and deadliest form of skin cancer), but are these dangers real, or is staying out of the sun ... | |
Teamwork cuts out unnecessary biopsies, researchers find July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Unnecessary biopsies could be a thing of the past for patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer. New Saint Louis University research found that when nuclear medicine clinicians and treating physicians work together ... | |
Pond scum could be key to new cancer therapies July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy are collaborating with the Ohio State University and two other organizations to discover new cancer therapies derived from natural sources such as pond ... | |
Plants make vaccine for treating type of cancer July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Plants could act as safe, speedy factories for growing antibodies for personalized treatments against a common form of cancer, according to new findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The findings came in ... | |
Gene panel predicts lung cancer survival, study finds July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers from four leading cancer centers have confirmed that an analysis involving a panel of genes can be used to predict which lung cancer patients will have the worst survival. The finding could one day lead to a test ... | |
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. | |
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