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Cell’s microenvironment linked to cancer

...the University of Illinois, Chicago has found that tumor malignancy also depends on the molecules that surrounds the cancer cell. This study which was published in the American Journal of Pathology, explains how the molecules surrounding the cell is involved in the alteration in genome package. An enzym...

New Technology In MRI Scan Help Test Brain Cancer Therapy

... weeks into the treatment of the brain affected by tumor growths. The new scan is called diffusion MRI scan and can be done using any closed MRI scanner with a few adjustments and takes a few minutes more. The problem of treatment of brain cancer was the waiting period the patient and the family members h...

Arthritis drugs are causing skin problems

Scientists have shown that tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-á-blocking therapy used for ...e of the reasons for such may be the fact that the tumor necrosis factor-á-blocking drugs lower the immunity of the body and thus the patients become more vu...

Cell phones are not associated with risk of brain tumor

...ed that there is no increased risk of having brain tumor associated with cell //phone users. The researchers had taken data from 427 people with brain tumors and 822 healthy people about their use of cell phones. The study participants had to go through a medical check-up including Mini-Mental State Exam...

Virus to treat brain tumor

...s of brain tumors. Glioblastoma is a form of brain tumor that is resistant to modern medical or surgical pr...ind out the one which is most effective at killing tumor cells. The successful viruses were cultivated for many generations on brain tumor cells, cloned to h...

Ceramide can target and kill cancer cells

... the blood stream and release the ceramides in the tumor cells. This happens as ceramides are, by nature still unknown to scientists, attracted to tumor cells. The liposome-encased ceramides reaches the tumor cells via the bloodstream. Then it enters ...

Harmful chemicals change the genetic response to hormone estrogen

...ma. These women may also be at increased risk from tumor of the uterus. Previously it was held that the harmful ingredients of the environment only cause genetic changes. The research brings into light the way genetic changes happen in an individual from harmful drugs while still in the womb of the mother...

Cancer diagnosis easier from microRNA

...ave then tested their discovery against a panel of tumor samples whose histological origins were unknown. T...A classification had proved unique for the kind of tumor and its presence and thus the procedure could accurately compare the expression patterns of the mess...

New insight for skin cancer discovered

...ancer like those involved in retinoblastoma or p53 tumor suppressing pathways. The mice were observed to see how the cancer had metasized. The new studies bring a new insight to moving the study of cell transformations, from simple forms to functional human tissues. It is possible to have a ready access t...

New dosage of medicine gets more results in neuroblastoma

...to the drug. Often reducing the size of the cancer tumor with the drug means that it will be easier to remove the malignant growth in the surgery. 40% of the patients enrolled for the study were surviving when the article was written. The study was published in the current issue of Clinical Oncology. Refe...

Women with borderline ovarian tumors can still preserve their fertility

...crete evidence of the effect of borderline ovarian tumor treatment to the fertility of the women who had undergone the surgery. The new research by Université Paris XIII, France, have shown that younger patients of the condition can opt for pregnancy after removal of one of their ovaries with significant c...

PET Scanner detects more Vaginal cancer than CT scans

...detect radioactivity that emanates directly from a tumor after a patient has received a dose of radioactive... what the patient has in the pelvis, but where the tumor has spread," Grigsby says. "That will absolutely determine the kind of treatment." Reference: Lamor...

Anti-fungal drug - Griseofulvin may help treat cancer

...ression of microtubule dynamics by griseofulvin in tumor cells, combined with the effects of more powerful drugs working through other mechanisms, might provide a therapeutic advantage for treatment of certain tumors." The work is a collaborative work between Wilson's lab, in UCSB's Department of Biochem...

Drug Tarceva for End-stage Lung cancer

...va is one of the new class of drug that slows down tumor growth by arresting the specific cellular pathway that regulates the cell division. Dosage is 1 pill once a day. Tarceva not only increased the survival rate but also had no side effects and improved the quality of life. Patients taking Tarceva had o...

Environmental estrogens can cause breast cancer

...had a reduced latency period before development of tumor after induction. They had a shortened latency period for tumor development and also the metastasis spread to the lung increased after induction of 4-nonylphenol. ...

Studies On Hearing Loss Discovers New Causes

...le causes of this may be age, disease, infections, tumor or stroke. Diabetes: Diabetes affects the population in terms of affecting the metabolism of blood glucose and impaired function of the insulin that helps in controlling the blood sugar levels. The main risk factors for diabetes are obesity, physi...

Possibility Of Treatment For Permanent Hearing Loss

...le causes of this may be age, disease, infections, tumor or stroke. RNAi: RNA interference is a technique of gene silencing that is used to study the effect of absence of a gene, by causing disruption to its expression, on an animal or a plant....

An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell

...egy can backfire, however, because it also starves tumor cells of oxygen, prompting them to create new bloo...o the tumor. They are small enough to pass through tumor vessels, but too large for the pores of normal vessels. Once the nanocell is inside the tumor, its...

Malignant Mesothelioma – A New Genetic Revelatio

Malignant mesothelioma is a very aggressive tumor which is found resistant to most of the treatment, which is increasing in frequency throughout the world. The main causative agents for the development of Malignant mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos, recently a virus, simian virus 40 (SV40) is als...

Malignant Mesothelioma – A New Genetic Revelation

Malignant mesothelioma is a very aggressive tumor which is found resistant to most of the treatment, which is increasing in frequency throughout the world. The main causative agents for the development of Malignant mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos, recently a virus, simian virus 40 (SV40) is als...

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