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Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...ome. The research was done with a strain of human tumor cells so it is not yet known if the gene jumping o...n in mice cells and we now know it occurs in human tumor cells, he said. The jumping occurs primarily in sperm and egg cells and not in other cells of the bo...

Benign eye tumors being treated

...ffective treatment for a type of non-cancerous eye tumor that threatens clear vision.// Using photodynamic ...e cases, each of the patients was suffering from a tumor in one eye, and all suffered loss of vision and a detached retina. In the first case, a 60 year old ...

National Lung Study in the process

...timeters in size. The idea is that the smaller the tumor is when detected, the more likely the chance of survival -- at least this is what researchers hope to find with the study. In order to participate in the study, individuals must meet the following criteria: >Be a current or former smoker age 55...

Novel way to fight cancer

...atient's tumor. The cells learned to recognize the tumor fragment as a foreign body and fight it. Additiona...ith no re-growth or appearance of new tumors. Some tumor disappearance was noted in four other patients. The effects lasted for four months, at which time th...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...e showing a 50 percent or greater reduction in the tumor and the other two showing 25% to 50% reductions. The drug was generally well-tolerated by the children. The researchers believe these results indicate a need for further study of fotemustine for the treatment of pediatric brain tumors and suggest th...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...e showing a 50 percent or greater reduction in the tumor and the other two showing 25% to 50% reductions. The drug was generally well-tolerated by the children. The researchers believe these results indicate a need for further study of fotemustine for the treatment of pediatric brain tumors and suggest th...

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer reappearance

... rate of cancer recurrence at or near the original tumor site in the rectum. In about 15% to 45% of patien...e tissue surrounding the rectum, which may contain tumor cell, is removed along with the rectum itself. In order to investigate researchers randomly assigne...

Breast Cancer risk for women on dopamine antagonists

...vels of prolactin, which has been shown to promote tumor growth in rats. However, studies linking the drugs and breast cancer in women have been limited and researchers say that further studies are needed before changing treatment strategies for women taking anti-psychotics....

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

...nt and a new test to look for the molecules in the tumor to predict how effective Taxol treatment is likely to be. The findings that are yet to be confirmed in cancer patients, raises the additional possibility that new drugs which inactivate the molecule could boost the response of cancer cells to treatme...

Cancers & Reconstruction

...bout three years ago, found a rare and often fatal tumor in Angela Carrozza’s nasal cavity and right eye socket. According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, nearly 38,000 cases of head and neck cancer were diagnosed in 2002. This type of cancer makes up about 3 percent of all cancers. Prior to ...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

...sting in lung-cancer patients after their original tumor is removed. In the setting of advanced disease, we are going to examine vaccination in combination with other treatments. Immunologist Cassian Yee, MD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle , whose team used T-cell therapy to halt can...

A better test than cytology for Urinary Malignancy

...gradation products and one that tested for bladder tumor antigen BTA. The samples were also examined cytologically. The overall sensitivity of the fibrinogen/fibrin test was 100%, and the accuracy was 83%. The sensitivity of the BTA test was 50%, and the accuracy 62%. In comparison, the sensitivity of the ...

Relief from cancer pain with anticonvulsants

...rve pain related to cancer, which is caused by the tumor pressing onthe nerve, analgesic drugs were not effective in relieving the pain. For thestudy, they were given along with injected narcotics, varying doses oflevetiracetam over periods// ranging from two days to two weeks. Doses variedbetween 500 mill...

Liver diseases: The enemy with an accomplice

...ue whereas the virus of hepatitis C was present in tumor cells in large quantities. Evidently, the mechanisms of their destructive effect are different; the patients though do not need to go deeply into such details. The main thing for them is the result but the latter is not consoling: the sluggish chroni...

Virus Helps Remove Brain Cancer

...producing itself. It moves on to contaminate other tumor cells, and when no more cancer cells are left to infect, the virus itself dies. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Institute of Catalá d'Oncologia in Barcelona, Spain, found in repeated experiments that more than half of ...

Enzyme help destroy cancer cell

...hers have found that radiotherapy helps in natural tumor control process. They said radiotherapy attacks an...ted when struck by radiation. This enzyme destroys tumor nourishing blood vessels to die. Tumors cannot survive without oxygen and nutrient supply. While it ...

Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

...ntains the PTEN gene, temporarily switched off the tumor cell growth in mice and allowed apoptosis, or cell death normally occurring in non-cancerous cells, to resume. Apoptosis made the cells behave more like normal cells, thereby clearing away the dysfunctional and damaged cells. Of the three forms of s...

Vitamin D May Aid Breast Cancer Treatment

...o aid radiation therapy in impacting the growth of tumor cells. An analog is a synthetic, laboratory-made d...e proliferation, or growth of cancer cells, in the tumor itself. While the finding in this particular study is unique, previous research on vitamin D found i...

Stopping Prostate Cancer from Spreading

Prostate cancer is most likely to be deadly when tumor cells spread to the rest of the body. Now, researc...cular invasion, the term for what happens before a tumor spreads. Tumors that produce a normal amount of RKIP are unable to spread to the vascular system. ...

Vitamin D Wipes out Cancer Cells

...treatment for breast cancer.Investigators compared tumor growth in mice treated with radiation alone to mic...9, a derivative of vitamin D. After treatment, the tumor volume in those women treated //with EB 1089 was 50-percent lower than in the group that received ra...

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