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Survivors of Childhood Cancers at Higher Risk for Secondary Cancer

...re secondary sarcomas such as soft tissue sarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors, and osteosarcoma. These sarcomas were diagnosed an average of 11 years after patients were diagnosed with their primary cancer. The authors found that patients with secondary sarcomas were more likely to have receive...

Patrick Walsh Wins International Medicine Prize

...furthering the overall understanding of benign and malignant neoplasms of the prostate. He is the author of several best-selling books and the winner of many distinguished awards honoring his contributions to prostate cancer research, including the Charles F. Kettering Gold Medal from the General Motors Can...

Novel Test Identifies Leukemia Patients Likely to Respond to New Therapy

...rotect cells from becoming cancerous. As a result, malignant B-cell lymphomas occur. Mutations or chromosomal rearrangements that deregulate BCL6 are responsible for many cases of diffuse large B cell lymphoma—an aggressive cancer that accounts for up to 30 percent of newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma c...

Cancer Drug Avastin Fights Brain Tumors too

...sible prognosis going into treatment -- those with malignant brain tumors that have recurred after initial treatment," says the lead researcher whose findings appear in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Simple Breath Test may Detect Lung Cancer

...United States alone. It is the most common form of malignant cancer and also kills the most people, partly because it is not usually detected until it has spread. So far, the most accurate detector of cancer has been dogs. In 2006, researchers found dogs could be trained to smell cancer on the breath of...

More Americans Suffer from Vertebral Compression Fractures

...ent for osteoporotic VCFs and up to 10 percent for malignant tumor-related VCFs. The benefits of surgery should always be weighed carefully against its risks. “Although a large percentage of patients report significant pain relief after these two procedures, there is no guarantee that surgery will help every i...

Leukemia Drug Turns Mini-Molecules Up, Cancer Genes Down

...uggest that these three miRNAs help re-program the malignant cells to a more normal state,” Garzon says, “and that they are also important for normal differentiation.” In this study, the researchers used leukemia cells grown in the laboratory and cells donated by patients to study how the drug ATRA affects ...

Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads

The addition of immunotherapy to chemotherapy for malignant skin cancer that has spread does not improve survi...nd chemotherapy might be an option for people with malignant melanoma. Authors led by Andre Sasse, M.D., at the research center Onco-Evidencias in Sao Paolo, B...

J591- an Antibody Exclusively Targets Tumors

...example, combining therapies aimed directly at the malignant cells, along with therapies to both directly kill the tumor's blood supply as well as prevent it from regrowing," Bander said. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Successful Islet Cell Transplant in Mice With Type 1 Diabetes

... genetic tests can also be conducted to see if the malignant cells still have the gene for p53 or if the portion of the chromosome on which p53 is found has been deleted. Sourc-Newswise SRM...

Beware of High Sugar Levels Even If You are Not Diabetic

...er of the pancreas, endometrium, urinary tract and malignant melanoma. Stattin says the study results “ have obvious implications for lifestyle guidance, as it is well known what factors cause blood glucose increases," and that they provide "further evidence for an association between abnormal glucose meta...

Women More Prone to Cancer from Increased Blood Sugar Levels

... risk of cancer of the pancreas, urinary tract and malignant melanoma. Blood sugar means glucose and a few other substances in the body like fructose and galactose. On the blood sugar level, women seem to be more vulnerable, but overall the link between abnormal glucose metabolism and cancer seems to have b...

A Novel Treatment for KSHV-infected Lymphomas

...way. TP53 gene is mutated or deleted in 50% of all malignant tumors. A recently discovered strategy for p53 activation targets the interaction of p53 with its negative regulator MDM2. This is based on a potent and selective small-molecule inhibitor of the p53–MDM2 interaction, the Nutlin-3a, originally disc...

Drug for Blood Pressure also Treats Lung Cancer

...2 is found at higher levels in 70 to 90 percent of malignant lung tumors. Theoretically, drugs to reduce COX-2 would also be effective at shrinking tumors. But the drugs, such as Vioxx?, have been shown to increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and angina. The researchers said that additional studies of...

eSie Touch Elasticity Imaging, and a Promise of Avoiding Breast Biopsies

... clinically relevant differentiation of benign and malignant tissue. The method is currently being tested in several studies with promising results and could potentially reduce the number of unnecessary breast biopsies. The software for this diagnostic advance is offered with the 5.0 release of the Acuson Anta...

Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads

The addition of immunotherapy to chemotherapy for malignant skin cancer that has spread does not improve survi...nd chemotherapy might be an option for people with malignant melanoma. Authors led by Andre Sasse, M.D., at the research center Onco-Evidencias in Sao Paolo, Br...

Detection of Malignant Breast Tumors Made Simpler and More Effective

...er method to distinguish benign breast tumors from malignant ones.// Harvard’s Kumar R. Bhushan, Ph.D., who l...nt is highly selective in targeting the product of malignant tumors, this approach may prove most useful for monitoring women who have dense breast tissue, or th...

White House Press Secretary to Battle Second Round of Colon Cancer

...ng out there." When caught early, DuBois notes, malignant growths still contained in the intestine can be removed with surgery, and 50 percent of patients are cured this way. “ Yet, about 30 percent of colon cancer patients, however, are diagnosed with the disease after it has progressed to more advanced...

Sunburnt Holiday-makers Boost Their Chances of Fatal Skin Cancer

...1 per cent said they might. Scientists know that malignant melanoma, the potentially fatal form of skin cance...ing to burning, particularly increases the risk of malignant melanoma. And each year in Britain almost 2000 people die from this form of skin cancer." Dr Rhode...

New Therapy for Lipid Disorder Demonstrates Varied Results

...f genetic and cellular changes that culminate in a malignant tumor], renal [kidney] dysfunction, rhabdomyolysis [a condition in which skeletal muscle cells break down] and cardiovascular toxicity.' The authors believe their findings underscore the importance of prompt and thorough reporting of clinical trial...

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