Specimen Radiography Confirms Success of MRI-Guided Breast Biopsy
... be valuable, said Dr. Erguvan-Dogan. “In all five malignant cases, sliced specimen radiographs showed the lesion in question, helped the pathologist correctly identify the lesion while the patient was still in the operating room and helped the surgeon obtain negative surgical margins,” said Dr. Erguvan-Dogan....Microcapsules target cancer cells
...n-University in Munich did this study. Treating malignant tumours is difficult. Doctors have to destroy the tumour, but healthy tissue needs to be preserved. Chemotherapy tends to kill diseased cells, at the same time causing great damage to the body in general. So scientists are looking for ways to destroy...Mature Muscle Fibers Can Revert to Become Cancerous
...ess-developed neighbors, are the tissues that turn malignant in a soft-tissue cancer//that strikes children and teens, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center Dallas have found. The research, performed in fruit flies, not only provides a clue to how the cancer arises, but a...Cancer cell behavior during Metastasis – New finding
A recent study in rats proposes that the highly malignant tumor cells possess a "toggle switch" that allows ...o metastasize.The Duke team discovered that highly malignant cells are equal parts epithelial and mesenchymal, transitioning between the two as their surrounding...Journal of Craniofacial Surgery Publishes Research by Iraqi Surgeons
...n eye and an in-depth analysis of a type of highly malignant jaw tumor affecting children in the Middle East. "It is a tribute to the determination and dedication of these surgeons that they are able to carry on their clinical and research activities at a time of such chaotic change in their country," comments...Why Don’t All Moles Progress to Melanoma
...lanocyte and triggers a response that prevents the malignant transformation of these cells,” Soengas adds. Ac...oncogenes trigger the unfolded protein response in malignant and non-malignant skin cells. “By comparing what happens in normal melanoctyes with what happens in ...Three Molecular Triggers Threaten Leukemia Patients
...that target complementary molecules and attack the malignant phenotype from multiple angles," Karp concludes. AML occurs when abnormal blood cells rapidly build up in the bone marrow, interfering with the production of normal blood cells. While chemotherapy often places the disease in remission, it usually c...Vitamin D Could Bring Sunshine to Breast Cancer Patients
...le of curbing the cell division in cancer cells or malignant cells. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon , France more than a million cases detected worldwide annually. Early detection is the key to successful intervention and treatment of cancer. MST...Fewer Women Having Inpatient Breast Cancer Surgery
...es in the hospital. Lumpectomies, which remove the malignant tumor and some surrounding tissue, comprised 14 percent. * Between 1997 and 2004, inpatient mastectomy rates decreased by 32 percent , and lumpectomy rates fell by 45 percent. * Breast cancer hospitalizations occurred the most in Massachusetts, N...Major causes of death in ICUs and Hospitals
...s who are out of the ICU but still in hospital are malignant tumours and aggravation of cardiovascular disorder...ed from the ICU a year after admission to the ICU, malignant tumour is responsible for death in over 1/3rds of them. 19.4% of the deaths after discharge from the...'Muscle' Protein Drives Prostate Cancer
...VI may be critical in starting and maintaining the malignant properties of the majority of human prostate cance...tients at Johns Hopkins, the researchers found the malignant samples showed a 3.7-fold higher expression of myosin VI as compared to normal samples, and a 4.6-fo...Fire Fighters Prone To Cancer Risk
...ncer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma and malignant melanoma - were associated with fire fighting on varying levels of increased risk. 'There's a critical and immediate need for additional protective equipment to help fire fighters avoid inhalation and skin exposures to known and suspected occupatio...New Treatment For Skin Cancer Using Body's own Immune System
...ystem was enhanced by drugs lived longer and their malignant melanomas also reduced noticeably. Two research ...e. Nearly 8000 people in Britain are affected by malignant melanoma every year and it claimed 1,777 lives in 2004.After diagnosis at the most critical stage, t...A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers
...es, representing a range of benign, precursor, and malignant prostate lesions, and used a FISH analysis to look for TMPRSS2-ERG. They didn't find any evidence of the fused gene in non-cancerous samples, but found it was present in 48.5 percent of localized prostate cancer tumors, 30 percent of hormone-na?ve me...Common Virus Enhances Cancer-Fighting Ability of Standard Chemotherapy Drugs
...small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the lung. The research focused on work conducted by SAIC-Frederick, Inc., a prime contractor to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The NCI tested the Respiratory Enteric Orphan virus, or reovirus, a non-disea...Skin cancer risk runs deep in marathoners
...ect a higher risk to development of skin cancer or malignant melanoma. This risk gets predominantly high due to over exposure to sun‘s harmful ultra-violet rays .This can be minimized with adequate protection from UV-rays using sun screen lotions and appropriate clothing. In the survey done as part of the re...An Eye on Increase in Testicular Cancer
...increase in testicular cancer, now the most common malignant cancer among 15-to-35-year-old Caucasian men, is the focus of a// five-year, $5.5 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant to Yale Public Health researcher Tongzhang Zheng. Testicular cancer is increasing for unknown reasons and this study w...New Technique to Detect Cancer in Early Stages
...etects pre-cancers or collections of a few hundred malignant cells among millions of healthy cells. Pap smears, the usual method used to test for cancer in the cervix, do not detect these pre-cancers, Huang Zhiwei, the project leader, told The Straits Times. Using light waves near the infrared region of th...Oncology Drug Pemnat Launched By NATCO
...at non-small cell lung cancer and certain types of malignant pleural mesothelioma (cancer affecting lining of lungs).The medicine, is available in 20 ml vials in the market for a single injection. It should be administered after chemotherapy, said the company. MST...Novel Suicide Gene Therapy Used to Treat Malignant Brain Tumors
...suicide gene therapy to treat typically// stubborn malignant brain tumors. This therapy, which combines radia...ique gene therapy clinical trial for patients with malignant gliomas, the most common form of brain tumor. In the study, the common cold virus is used as a “ca...