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Turmeric Found To Slow Down Melanoma Growth

...urmeric, inhibits melanoma// cell growth and kills tumor cells. It has already been demonstrated that the s...endent manner in addition to inducing apoptosis in tumor cells at high concentrations for short periods of time and low concentrations for long periods of ti...

Revolution in Genetics to Open Avenues for Treating Cancer

... new genes were narrowed down after examination of tumor tissue from 53 breast cancer patients. In addition breast cancer cell lines were also studied which confirmed the findings. This new discovery could provide a basis for new treatment for the disease, which is haunting women. Our improved understandi...

Identified Protein To Inhibit Cell Migration

...on and wound healing to occur in humans. Increased tumor cell migration also is one of the hallmarks of hig...arget for new drug development aimed at decreasing tumor metastasis, or spread, throughout the body. CIB1 plays a prominent role in the activation of PAK1 a...

A Mirror Miracle!

...cer, instead of undergoing blood tests to see if a tumor is growing back. A simple instrument which wi... chemical markers which warn about the regrowth of tumor cells. Now a biomedical company in Worcestershire, have developed a better way to pick up signs...

Gene enchances radiation therapy - A novel approach to fight cancer

...on of the EGFR repair system. They also found that tumor cells in the mice treated with the mutant gene were 46% less likely to survive than those in untreated mice. The study shows that disrupting the EGFR system in cancer cells "can enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy, a major treatment form for ...

Protein causing spread of colon cancer identified

...gaiza and colleagues took genes expressed by colon tumor cells grown in the laboratory and converted them into proteins.// Thousands of different proteins were injected into the mice, and two, Pa28 being one of them, targeted the liver. The investigators are now researching if these proteins are cap...

Gene causes moles to become cancerous

...ses cancer cells to grow in melanoma. Id1 blocks a tumor suppressor gene that ordinarily keeps precancerous...l rate of 97 percent beyond five years. But as the tumor begins to grow, the survival rate falls to 50 percent if it has reached the lymph nodes below the sk...

Moles become cancerous due to genes

...ses cancer cells to grow in melanoma. Id1 blocks a tumor suppressor gene that ordinarily keeps precancerous...l rate of 97 percent beyond five years. But as the tumor begins to grow, the survival rate falls to 50 percent if it has reached the lymph nodes below the sk...

Malignant virus in polio vaccine combined to Cancer

...othelioma and lymphomas - are now exactly the same tumor types in humans found with detectable levels of SV...ns from SV40 have a powerful effect in turning off tumor suppressor genes in humans. Gazdar and the other researchers said that the recent SV40 discoveries ...

New and easier method of radiation

...in only one week's time. In this method, after the tumor is removed, doctors use a CT scan to create an ima... to focus the treatment only on the area where the tumor was removed by using a series of beam angles. According to Dr. Vicini, 100 percent of the dose goes ...

MRI with nanoparticles highly sensitive in detecting prostate cancer metastases

...efore surgery which patients will have microscopic tumor spread to the lymph nodes. The findings, which are published in the June 19th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, are based on a study of 80 men with prostate cancer who underwent lymph-node resection or biopsy. Prior to surgery, MRI was p...

Kidney Cancer Vaccine

...ells, and exposing them to material from their own tumor cells. The cells are then injected back into the p...cer. "We don't see a very dramatic impact on the tumor itself. We don't see tumors melt away. But what we see is that these tumors just don't grow anymore"...

New Treatment Option For Testicular Cancer

...ut three years, researchers found no difference in tumor control between the two groups, but that the singl...ond tumor. At follow-up, there was only one second tumor noted in the carboplatin group and seven cases of second tumors noted in the radiation therapy group...

New Treatment Option For Kidney Cancer

Heating away a tumor in the kidney appears to be a promising treatment,...s then passed through the electrode // to heat the tumor tissue and ablate, or eliminate, it. The research finds patients not only respond to the treatment b...

New Vaccine To Treat Skin Cancer

...be successfully treated by injecting patients with tumor proteins, say researchers according to a recent st...hers studied what effect vaccinating patients with tumor antigens (called MAGE-3) might have on patients’ immune cells, which are known as killer T-cells. It...

Predicting Breast Cancer Recurrence By Understanding Gene Signature

...ce .// For the study the gene expressions in 286 tumor samples from 209 lymph-node-negative breast cancer...al cancer treatment and varied in age and in their tumor sizes. Results analyzed, after a follow-up averaging eight years, showed 93 of the women had cance...

Phase 3 trials of two multi-kinase inhibitors against cancer

...sus those on placebo. Both these drug act against tumor and its ability to recruit new blood vessels essential for growth and dissemination via multiple mechanisms. Sorafenib works by inhibiting the RAF/MEK/ERK pathway and, in parallel, impedes angiogenesis by inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor...

Slowing Down The Progression Of Tumour Cells With Omega-6 Fatty Acids

... would then have a new way of modifying or slowing tumor growth. Researchers say they further plan to study the overall effect of different types of fatty acids on different tumour types in cell lines as well as human biopsies and also correlate type of fatty acid with tumour stage and grade in order to o...

The effects of Curcumin: a natural pigment in turmeric explored for its anti-cancer properties

...nd that it inhibits melanoma cell growth and kills tumor cells. Researchers at the Department of Experiment...t curcumin helped stop the spread of breast cancer tumor cells to the lungs in a mice trial...

Scandals Can Affect Medical Research

...tissue for research purposes and donations to a UK tumor bank from 1998 to 2004. Both newspaper coverage an...nificant fall in registrations of samples with the tumor bank, showing how the controversies may have affected unrelated areas of use of human materials. Ne...

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