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Popular Herbal Supplement Hinders the Growth of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

...sburgh School of Medicine. "Triphala triggered the cancerous cells to die off and significantly reduced the size of the tumors without causing any toxic side effects." Dr. Srivastava and colleagues fed mice grafted with human pancreatic tumors 1 to 2 milligrams of triphala for five days a week and then compa...

UCSF Brain Tumor Vaccine Trial Shows Promising Results

...lifornia, San Francisco. Known as a glioma, this cancerous tumor is always fatal. Findings from a group of 12 study patients showed that vitespen vaccination (trademarked as Oncophage) was effective in stimulating the patient’s immune system to attack the tumor cells, a function that is known medically as tu...

Artificial Testis Developed by AIIMS a Boon to Suffering Patients

...ld baby boys, we found the problem and removed the cancerous testis," Gupta said. He said generally people come to get one testis removed but "we have conducted double testis replacements in at least six patients". "In case of a single testis replacement, the patient never faces any problem as the second o...

Canadian Scientists Create Human Cancer in Mouse

...ow the disease originated. By inserting just one cancerous gene into human stem cells, John Dick, the lead author of the study and a senior scientist at Princess Margaret Hospital, and his colleagues were able to seed leukaemia - a cancer of the blood in specially bred lab mice. "We haven't proven it, but ...

Drinks and Breast Cancer – How It Happen

...y’s immune system to fend them off. Yet, once the cancerous cells acquire a blood-vessel lifeline, which this study suggests is set off by alcohol, the tumor growth succeeds. Sorce-Medindia ANN/V...

Blood Test Reveals Colon Cancer Proteins

...s seem very good at separating normal samples from cancerous ones and identifying other groups with pre-cancers at high risk for disease as well," says Getzenberg, who is a professor of urology and director of research at Johns Hopkins' Brady Urological Institute. Results are published in the June 15 issue of ...

Malaria Parasite can Cause Severe Lymphatic Cancer

...rrible suffering. In the disease immune cells turn cancerous and tumours build up in the lymph nodes, which often results in the swelling of the tongue and bulging of cheeks making it difficult for patients to eat. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) which commonly causes glandular fever or the kissing disease is belie...

Breast Cancer Drug Curbs Heart Disease.

...herapy. Both drugs are prescribed to women whose cancerous breast cells have HER2 genes that are overactive. Approximately one in four women with breast cancer have this overactive gene, which is associated with increased cancer recurrence and worse outcomes. Lapatinib was approved earlier in March for use i...

The Risk of Colorectal Tumor is Not Reduced With Folic Acid Supplements

...olorectal adenomas but no previous large intestine cancerous tumor. Participants were randomly assigned to receive 1 mg/day of folic acid (n = 516) or placebo (n = 505), and were separately randomized to receive aspirin (81 or 325 mg/day) or placebo. Follow-up consisted of two colonoscopic examination cycles...

Study Finds Lymphoma Drug Effective Over Long Term

...m to bind to a protein found on the surface of the cancerous cells. The radiation zaps these malignant cells with minimal exposure to normal tissues. With the Bexxar therapeutic regimen, a patient receives an injected test dose of radioactive Bexxar, followed one to two weeks later with a custom-tailored the...

PET/CT: The Best Test for Women With Ovarian Cancer

...harmaceutical is drawn in higher concentrations to cancerous areas. PET scans show where FDG is by measuring the high-energy photons emitted by the drug and produce three- dimensional images of those substances functioning within the body. PET scanning provides information about the body's chemistry, metabol...

Esophageal Cancer Patients' Positive Responses to Chemotherapy Accurately Identified by PET

...maceutical is taken up in higher concentrations to cancerous areas. PET scans show where FDG is by tracking photons given off by the radioactive tracer. PET scanning provides information at a molecular levelnot available through other proceduresabout the body's chemistry, metabolic activity and body function...

Device That Targets Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results

... tumor growth by interfering with cell division of cancerous cells, causing them to stop proliferating and die ...vide and have different electrical properties than cancerous brain cells. This allows the device to target cancer cells without affecting the healthy cells. Th...

Robotic Surgery May Improve Survival Rate For Prostate Cancer Patients

...cope, goes to the edge of a specimen, meaning that cancerous cells likely remain in the patient. LRP is the surgical removal of the entire prostate gland and surrounding tissue including the seminal vessels through several tiny incisions. We demonstrated a significant improvement in the positive surgical mar...

'Star Trek'-type Scanning may Help Reveal Genetic Activity of Tumors

...,000 or more genes that have different activity in cancerous tissue, the researchers could reconstruct 80 per cent of gene expression based on looking at standard CT scans the patients had undergone. "Clearly, we are very far from clinical applications of these tools that we developed. But the fact that we s...

Green Tea may Protect the Bladder from Becoming Inflamed

...chins found in green tea protected both normal and cancerous bladder cells from inflammation when we exposed th...njury or inflammation." In the study, normal and cancerous bladder cells were exposed to two major catechin components of green tea, epigallocatechin gallate (...

Pediatric Cancer Stem Cell Identified

...omyoblast". Depending upon on the histology of the cancerous cells, there are several different subtypes of RMS. Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is the most common subtype, usually found in children under 15, in the head and neck region and genitourinary tract. Dr. Zon and colleagues have developed an anim...

Myths About Melanoma Could Lead to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment

...or physicians to aid in distinguishing potentially cancerous lesions from benign pigmented moles. The ABCD acronym stands for Asymmetry (meaning one half of the mole is different from the other), Border Irregularity (the edges or borders of melanomas are usually ragged or notched), Color (melanoma often has a ...

US Professors Develop Fusion Protein to Fight Cancer

...ing fight to develop a drug that could target only cancerous cells. Thomas Pento and Roger HarrisonTwo profe...ghting protein that can stop the spread of certain cancerous cells without damaging healthy, normal cells. The new fusion protein can be helpful in fighting lung...

New Cancer Therapy That can Be Less Painful

... and tagged with antibodies which are attracted to cancerous tumours. Once the cell reaches the cancer, the drug is released directly into the malignant growth. It is hoped the technique could treat tumours in the breast, ovaries, colon and lungs. So far it has been used in mice and dogs, and the researc...

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