Listening to the sound of skin cancer October 16, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia can now detect the spread of skin cancer cells through the blood by literally listening to their sound. The unprecedented, minimally invasive technique causes melanoma cells ... | |
Phase II Study: Revlimid successful October 12, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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U.S. scientists say a Phase II trial of Revlimid in patients with incurable blood cancer has produced positive results. | |
Researchers first to map gene that regulates adult stem cell growth January 14, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A new discovery in stem cell research may mean big things for cancer patients in the future. Gary Van Zant, Ph.D., and a research team at the University of Kentucky published their findings today in Nature Genetics. | |
Brain tumor vaccine trial shows promising results April 16, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain has shown promise in preliminary data from a clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco. | |
U-M researchers discover gene switched off in cancer can be turned on June 11, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A gene implicated in the development of cancer cells can be switched on using drugs, report researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The finding could lead to a new class of targeted cancer ... | |
Preventing cancer without killing cells March 30, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Inducing senescence in aged cells may be sufficient to guard against spontaneous cancer development, according to a paper published online this week in EMBO reports. It was previously unknown whether cellular senescence or ... | |
 Tumors use enzyme to recruit regulatory T-cells and suppress immune response August 16, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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One way tumors fly under the radar of the immune system is by using IDO, an enzyme used by fetuses to help avoid rejection, to recruit powerful regulatory T cells that turn down the immune response, researchers ... | |
Gene may hold key to future cancer hope October 08, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Scientists may have discovered a new way of killing tumours in what they hope could one day lead to alternative forms of cancer treatments. | |
Lung cancer cells' survival gene seen as drug target December 25, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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One of the deadliest forms of cancer appears to carry a specific weakness. When a key gene called 14-3-3zeta is silenced, lung cancer cells can't survive on their own, researchers have found. | |
Small study shows marijuana does not increase risk of head, neck cancer March 04, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Smoking marijuana (cannabis) does not increase the user’s risk of head and neck cancer, according to a new study published in the March 2008 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. | |
Early warning: PSA testing can predict advanced prostate cancer February 15, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Researchers who showed that a single prostate specific antigen (PSA) test at age 50 or under could predict the presence of prostate cancer up to 25 years later, (regardless of clinical significance) have now found that a ... | |
New test detects early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent accuracy February 12, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a blood test with enough sensitivity and specificity to detect early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent accuracy. | |
 First evidence that blocking key energy protein kills cancer cells March 31, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Researchers in Taiwan report for the first time that blocking a key energy-supplying protein kills cancer cells. The finding, described as the first to test possible medical uses of so-called ATP-synthase ... | |
Computer predicts anti-cancer molecules June 17, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A new computer-based method of analyzing cellular activity has correctly predicted the anti-tumour activity of several molecules. Research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Molecular Cancer describes ... | |
Researchers pinpoint how smoking causes cancer May 13, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have pinpointed the protein that can lead to genetic changes that cause lung cancer. The research will be published Tuesday, May 12, in the British Journal ... | |
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