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Old Drugs Safe To Use In Cancer Treatment ?

...weight. The effects of this drug were studied in pancreatic cancer patients and was seen to help weight loss in cancer patients who ultimately succumb to the effects of severe weight loss by the disease. This drug has also showed similar positive effects in AIDS and tuberculosis patients. The study involve...

Hope For Those With Pancreatic Cancer

...e that controls the growth, spread and survival of pancreatic cancer cells // could be a promising step toward new and better treatment options for pancreatic cancer . Researchers say they have discovered what role the GSK-3 Beta molecule plays in pancreatic...

Case for dietary pattern and pancreatic cancer

...d out the relationship between dietary pattern and pancreatic cancer, scientists// had conducted observations of 585 confirmed cases of pancreatic cancer and 4779 healthy people in Canada. The cancer that starts in the pancreas is pancreatic can...

Processed meats can cause cancer

Risk of pancreatic cancer is enhanced by eating processed meats, said.... Previous studies have tried to relate meat with pancreatic cancer, but this is the first time processed meat have been proved to enhance carcinogenic growth in...

Brain stem cells to help in producing insulin

...rain and exposed them to signals that will lead to pancreatic islet development. This produced clusters of insulin producing cells that were responsive to glucose absorption. These were then transplanted in to immuno-suppressant mice. When the mice were given glucose, circulating human insulin and C-peptide wer...

New protein found that could slow pancreatic cancer

...ntified a new protein that can check the growth of pancreatic cancer//. Pancreatic cancer develops very fast an...hus will help in controlling the growth process of pancreatic cancer. Reference: Journal of Biological Chemistry, June 2005...

Curry Powder (haldi or turmeric) can prevent cancer

... powder retards the growth of multiple myeloma and pancreatic cancer. Researchers are still studying the effect of curcumin on breast cancer. The chemical had kept the protein NF-kB inactive as well as inducing apoptosis or programmed cell deaths for the cancer cells. The cancer preventive power of the spice m...

Mango: the cancer combater

... in the USA scientists believe that mango inhibits pancreatic cancer and regulated a number of processes involved in cancer development. Lupeol is the wonder anti-oxidant found in mangoes, which can prove highly beneficial in heart diseases, cancer and ageing. This anti-oxidant is formed in mangoes as a resul...

Pancreatic cancer risk

...sity appears to significantly increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in both sexes,while moderate physical activ...llow-up, 140 men and 210 women were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In subjects from both cohorts, body mass index (BMI) was significantly associated with the r...

Advances In Stem Cells Research

... team has been investigating the insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells that are missing in patients with type ...s.Their long-term goal is to learn how to generate pancreatic beta cells that can be used as a therapy for type 1 diabetes. Specialists say, “Studies of embryoni...

Genes responsible for cancer in women associated with increased cancer risk in men

...has also been associated with an increased risk of pancreatic and prostate cancers in men. The mutation may also...ryngeal cancer and eight times more likely to have pancreatic cancer. The above finding only emphasizes on the need for early screening strategies and an under...

BRAC2 mutations is also linked with cancers in men

...s now found to increase the risk of development of pancreatic and prostate cancers in men. The results of the st...ryngeal cancer and eight times more likely to have pancreatic cancer than the general population. Male carriers were more than twice as likely to have prostate ca...

Sitagliptin, Under Investigation For Type 2 Diabetes

...tive incretin hormones which increase insulin from pancreatic beta-cells and decrease glucagon from pancreatic alpha cells in a glucose-dependent manner (when blood glucose is elevated and not when blood glucose...

High-Vegetable & Fruit Diet Reduce The Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer

...ngs of fruit and vegetables can reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer by 50 per cent. The vegetables most stron...e. The study was based on in-person interviews of pancreatic cancer patients and randomly selected controls. Control group participants did not have pancreatic c...

Microscopic Nanobombs Blow Apart Breast Cancer Cells

...owards treating breast cancer, prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer....

Intake Of Processed Meat And Fat Associated With Pancreatic Cancer

...d meats, red meat and pork can enhance the risk of pancreatic cancer, according to a new study, published in the...t intake has been associated with risk of exocrine pancreatic cancer, but previous findings have been inconsistent. This association has been attributed to both t...

Carnitine deficiency in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

...ell due to selective autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta cells. In this type exogenous insulin is required to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis....

Ketoacidosis Is The Main Cause On Mortality In Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

...ell due to selective autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta cells. In this type exogenous insulin is required to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis....

Stem cells Can Generate Organs In Labs

...nitive endoderm lineage, such as (liver cells) and pancreatic endocrine cells," he added . "It basically shows human embryonic stem cells have the capacity to make this lineage and all the resulting cells that come from that that make up all these organs," Baetge told a press team "If you were to use human ...

Gemcitabine with Capecitabine effective against pancreatic cancer

...as found to be effective in treating patients with pancreatic cancer compared to use of single drug. A combinati...been found to decrease the number of deaths due to pancreatic cancer.// Early and effective to pancreatic cancer is very important as Pancreatic cancer is one of ...

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