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Tag: "tumor" at medical news

Link Between Hepatitis C And Liver Cancer Unraveled By Scientists

... the replicons have enabled researchers identify a tumor suppressor protein, named NS5B. This protein has been found to play an important role in breakdown of the retinoblastoma gene by attaching to it. This molecular mechanism is very similar to the way HPV causes cancer growth. The study has proved to ...

New Treatment Found For Pancreatic Cancer

...of the disease recurring. Reducing the size of the tumor helps people to undergo surgery who were formerly ...y detection is very difficult. Removing the entire tumor is the only way to treat the disease. The treatment developed by oncologist J. Marc Pipas reduces th...

Initial Steps In Spread Of Cancer Identified

...lood or the lymph// and then started forming a new tumor there. It has now emerged that certain chemicals...d, "These nests provide attachment factors for the tumor cells to implant and nurture them. It causes them not only to bind but to proliferate. Once that all...

Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo

...r all decisions were being made on the size of the tumor and the involvement of the lymph nodes. The treatment differed according to the amount of cancer one had.Under the new rules, hormone status — whether a tumor's growth depends on estrogen or progesterone — becomes the single most important factor in ...

Study supports century-old cancer theory

... researchers consider the 100-year-old theory that tumor cell hybridization with white blood cells as a maj...aid the idea of white blood cells hybridizing with tumor cells is not new. During the early 1900`s the German pathologist Otto Aichel proposed metastasis is ...

Aspirin induces Cancer Cells To Commit Suicide

... cells in combination with a new therapy called as tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). They add that if these findings are corroborated in larger clinical studies then aspirin could prove to be a blessing for the treatment of recurring colon and prostate cancers. "When cancers ...

Indonesian boy with huge neck tumor was surgically removed

...as Wahangara, 12 year old boy from Indonesia had a tumor measuring about 7.87 inches diameter and weighed 4.41 lb and the tumor made up around 10% of his body weight.// The tumor was successfully operated by the Surgeons in Sing...

Passive Smoking Makes Kids Prone To Respiratory Illness

...liland. The researchers examined the gene called tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha. This gene is linked to the body's inflammatory response to chemicals such as those found in second-hand smoke. About 24 percent of the children had a variation in at least one of their two copies of the TNF-alpha gene. ...

Cancer Cells Trigger Supporting Cells to Turn Cancerous

...o accelerated the development of the cancer in the tumor cells. This rapid rate caused a change in the fibr...hese fibroblasts lost the protective action of the tumor suppressor, p53. This meant that the cells continued to merrily divide thereby evolving as cancer ce...

Artificial Light Stimulates Breast Cancer Growth In Mice: Study

...use linoleic acid as a growth signal, which causes tumor metabolism and growth activity to shut down," says...with administration of daytime blood samples, when tumor activity is particularly high," Blask said."Companies that employ shift workers could introduce ligh...

Benzotiophene derivatives exhibit antitumor activity

...ts action and the pathway in which it inhibits the tumor cells in invitro cell culture system. Source: Eurekalert...

Nigerian girl recovering well after removal of brain tumor

...Children's Hospital, where doctors removed a brain tumor the size of a grapefruit, the biggest the surgeons had seen. The tumor took up more than half the right side of Faridah's brain, causing the arm to snake oddly when she he...

Radiology advance points way to non-invasive brain cancer treatment

...ts include highly invasive surgeries to remove the tumor and radiation treatment with the maximum tolerated...py (GdSSR), requires a gadolinium compound to find tumor cells and penetrate them, down to their nuclei, while sparing the normal brain. Then, the patient's ...

Little Known DNA Repair Enzyme May Be A Tumor Suppressor Gene

...segment of chromosome 6 which is home for multiple tumor suppressor genes and a slew of human cancers, including a number of leukemias and lymphomas. This segment is associated with chromosomal instabilities in this particular region of chromosome 6. "Although it requires further investigation, we believe...

Death Risk Of Ovarian Cancer Reduced By Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

...arian cancer is the removal of most of the visible tumor followed by infusion of chemotherapeutic agents. Most women who receive this form of treatment die within two to three years. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center initiated a study, in an attempt to change the condition. 415 patien...

US Government Licenses New Hypertension Drug

...s of molecular biology, it has more in common with tumor conditions," explains professor Marius Hoeper of the Medical University in Hanover. Edited DP...

High Decibel Noise May Lead To Tumor

...0 to 69, of which 146 participants already had the tumor and 564 people were without it. The group was int...n, and music) increased the risk of developing the tumor almost 2.25 times. Exposure to noise from Airplanes, and Motor enhanced the risk of tumor by almost ...

Metastasis of Neuroblastoma linked to Loss Of Caspase-8 gene

...ells that have broken itself from the main primary tumor have lost the function of this gene. Hence it is c...always results in the metastasis of the tumor. The tumor is never present in the primary stage. In case of bringing back the functioning of the gene results ...

Exposure to Grating, Noise, Music Can Cause Tumors Leading To Deafness

... one-and-a-half times more vulnerable to develop a tumor called as acoustic neuroma. //Eventually, people with this tumor develop deafness or hearing loss due to the impingement of this tumor on the cranial nerve that is r...

Breast Cancer Treatment Reduced From Six Weeks To Five Days.

... Doctors// can point the radiation source at the tumor killing the cancer cells. The study compares the usefulness of the new therapy over the conventional six-week treatment. They are also in the process of analyzing the suitable subjects for this therapy. But the Canadians are working on a new ther...

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