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Revolutionary Eye Cancer Treatment

...dy rids itself of abnormal cells that might become cancerous or cause other problems. Until now, retinoblastoma experts thought that a mechanism called the p53 pathway triggered apoptosis in other types of cancer cells, but not in retinoblastoma. However, the St. Jude team proved not only that the p53 pathway...

Arthritis drugs safer than previously declared

...o re affirm if they actually triple the chances of cancerous lesions and infections. Their review has projected new data which hints that risk of cancer is not as high as that was proclaimed in the previous studies. The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a number of letters from researc...

'Muscle' Protein Drives Prostate Cancer

... study all of the genes in 59 samples of benign or cancerous prostate tissue from patients at Johns Hopkins, th...matory atrophy. Finally, when they altered some cancerous cells by knocking down their myosin VI protein, the cancer cells not only were less able to spread a...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...of 95 percent (meaning it could correctly identify cancerous lesions) and with a 98 percent specificity (the ability to detect truly negative cases). The researchers are continuing to study, validate, and perfect the assay, and test its ability to identify pancreatic cancer at early, treatable stages. Althou...

Studies Examine Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates

...can examine the whole colon and remove potentially cancerous growths at the same session, colonoscopy is increasingly common as indicated by data from Medicare and other health care systems and is recommended as the most accurate screening tool by a growing number of professional organizations. Hashem B. El-...

A novel vaccine proves a shot in the arm for colorectal cancer patients

...ne systems in colorectal cancer patients to attack cancerous cells. // During a clinical trial of 67 patients...vaccines were injected pre and post surgery of the cancerous growth, it activated the immune cell production in nearly 70 percent of patients. The November 15 is...

A New Ultrasound Technique to Detect Breast Cancer

...ective in determining whether lumps in breasts are cancerous or not.// The procedure is called elasticity imaging and measures the tissues’ elasticity and compression in response to pressure. Generally tumors are found to be harder and less elastic than benign lumps and thus the test can tell a dangerous gro...

Novel Suicide Gene Therapy Used to Treat Malignant Brain Tumors

...cer in the brain and recognize and kill additional cancerous cells that may be lurking in the brain, then we can give our brain tumor patients freedom from this disease.” Malignant gliomas account for more than half of the more than 18,000 primary malignant brain tumors diagnosed each year in the United Stat...

Cancer Drugs Damage Brain Cells

...finitely more toxic to healthy brain cells than to cancerous cells. The same drug that helps to wipe out 40%-80% of cancer cells also mutilates 70% or more normal healthy brain cells. Studies conducted on mice showed that even after six weeks, brain cell continue to die. Researchers have postulated that the d...

Gene Warfare and Lobular Cancer

... gene FGFR1 contributed to the survival of certain cancerous cells in these tumors. Hence it was suggested that inhibitors or suppressants of this gene could be used in formulating drugs intended for the therapy of this type of carcinoma....

Fears That Connect Cell Phone With Cancer Risk Baseless: Reports Study

...inating that this increases the chances of umpteen cancerous changes in the head and neck. However, no concrete evidence was found to support this theory. The current Danish study categorically says that no long term or short term ill effects could be associated with the regular use of cell phones. The stud...

Team Discovers a Gene That Causes Familial Pancreatic Cancer

...lace and basically to behave,” said Brentnall. “In cancerous cells, the cytoskeleton doesn't work correctly, an... were over-expressed in abnormal pre-cancerous and cancerous tissue. “We finally found what we had so doggedly pursued -- a gene that was expressed 21 times m...

Colonoscopies Can Help Prevent Colon Cancer; Only When Done Properly

...octor check the colon for abnormalities, including cancerous and pre-cancerous growths. On an average, it too... many polyps they found. They found that in all, cancerous or pre-cancerous growth was detected in 23.5 % of patients examined. But such growths were detected...

Miracle Cancer Drug in the Pipeline

..., is endowed with the power to delay the growth of cancerous cells. "The way it works is it interferes with new blood vessels growing into tumors and it also prevents the tumors from spreading by inhibiting an enzyme they need to spread with," Prof Parish said. The trials that have been undertaken so far hav...

Distinguishable Traits of Fatal Skin Cancer Recognized

...y experts. When a skin tumour// , identified to be cancerous is proportionate, and is raised with regular borders, and other associated symptoms, it’s more likely to develop into a potentially fatal skin cancer. This was reported by Australian researchers in East Melbourne. Melanomas that grow rapidly can b...

Colonoscopy Aids Early Detection of Colon Cancer

... in the inner lining of the colon that may suggest cancerous changes. Statistical data retrieved from the National Cancer Institute show that colorectal cancer is presently the third most-commonly diagnosed cancer among both sexes in the U.S. Each year about 60,000 new cases are detected among people over 65...

Genetically Modified Cells Attack Tumors

...PCs have a natural tendency to seek out damaged or cancerous areas in the brain. In the current study, the researchers first injected into mice that had neuroblastoma large numbers of NSPCs that had been genetically modified to carry a drug-activating enzyme called rabbit carboxylesterase (rCE). The NSPCs t...

New Iron Regulation Discovery by Children's Hospital

...roblem with targeting DNA is that both healthy and cancerous cells have the same DNA, but they also have different mRNAs. Consequently, our research findings could help scientists design medications that target mRNAs," said Dr. Theil. Source-Eurekalert...

Researchers Find Stem-cell Therapy Effective in Targeting Metastatic Cancer

... Most chemotherapy drugs affect both normal and cancerous tissue, which is why they also are toxic to naturally fast-growing cells in the body such as hair follicles and intestinal cells. Aboody and her colleagues have developed a two-part system to infiltrate metastatic tumor sites, and then activate a che...

Laura Bush Makes Light of Cancer News

... feeling fine after the squamous cell carcinoma, a cancerous growth was surgically removed from her skin. The first lady said, "It just didn't occur to me. Also, of course, I am a private citizen. I mean, I have to say that as well. I don't release the results of my regular physicals like the president does,...

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