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Hybrid Molecule Causes Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct

...g. Efforts to use butyrate as a general drug for tumors elsewhere in the body, however, have been hindered by the high doses of the compound needed to effectively eradicate cancer. To get around this problem, scientists have tried to make butyrate more potent by modifying it or joining it to other compoun...

Black Women Have More Severe Cases of Breast Cancer Than Whites, Hispanics

...rs found that black women were more likely to have tumors that did not carry an estrogen receptor, a more ag...n addition, the different biology of black women's tumors might account for the disparity. Woodward and her colleagues suggested more tailored treatment for b...

Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Could Prevent Cancer in Childre

... lymphoma were cut in half, and the number of lung tumors later in life was significantly reduced. "It's clear that in mice this supplement provided significant protection against lymphoma and, later on, lung cancer," Williams said. "It's also worth noting that none of the infant mice received the protec...

Researchers Identify New Drug Targets for Cancer

...mes – was first proposed as the cause of cancerous tumors nearly a century ago by German biologist Theodor B... resulting in aneuploidy, would be used to destroy tumors caused by mutations in the tumor suppressors. “This study opens up a whole series of potential th...

Profiling of Cancer Genes May Lead to Earlier Detection Human Cancers

... gene. “These results show the power of studying tumors on a genome-wide basis, looking at many genes at t... examined which genes are active in those kinds of tumors and compared them to gene expression profiles from normal lung epithelial cells. The researchers the...

Pregnant Women- Eat Broccoli And Cabbage

... Among those that lived, 100 percent acquired lung tumors in their middle age, the study found. In contras...carbinol died from lymphoma and the number of lung tumors also was significantly lower. "It's clear that in mice this supplement provided significant protec...

Researchers Find Stem-cell Therapy Effective in Targeting Metastatic Cancer

...nique takes advantage of the tendency for invasive tumors to attract neural stem cells. The researchers inje...hs. The results hold promise for treating solid tumors that metastasize including neuroblastoma, which represents 6 percent to 10 percent of all childhood ...

Run Amok Enzyme Causes Same Problems in Both Humans and Fruit Flies

...teady population. This loss of regulation leads to tumors populated with these overproduced cells.” Anders...more than normal – of new neuroblasts that lead to tumors in the brain. “We conclude that the aurora-A kinase is required to coordinate the position of prot...

Cancer Prevention Begins During Pregnancy

... lymphoma were cut in half, and the number of lung tumors later in life was significantly reduced. "It's clear that in mice this supplement provided significant protection against lymphoma and, later on, lung cancer," Williams said. "It's also worth noting that none of the infant mice received the protect...

Genetically Modified Cells Attack Tumors

Mice with neuroblastoma tumors have been successfully treated with genetically mo...rs also showed that the modified cells migrated to tumors regardless of how small the tumors were or where they were located in the body. A report on this wor...

Colorectal Cancer Survival Rates Poorer in African-Americans

...ess likely to receive surgical treatment for their tumors compared to Caucasians. The analysis demonstrated that earlier detection and higher utilization of surgery would each, independently, improve mortality risk. "Despite the availability of health care insurance," the authors identified significant "r...

Anti Allergy Drugs Reduce Tumor Growth

...d alone actually had a good effect on reduction of tumors compared to control animals, which surprised us," he adds. It reduced tumor growth by 70 percent, compared to growth reduction of 50 percent when gemcitabine was used as a single agent, compared to control animals. No one knows exactly how cromolyn...

Estrogen Study Provides New Hope For Colon Cancer Treatment

...en's chances of survival. They theorize that colon tumors that developed in women who had used estrogen for many years may have been less susceptible to estrogen’s growth-slowing effects.The precise way by which estrogen foils the growth of colon cancer cells is unclear, as well. The study authors offer thr...

Characteristics of Fast-Growing Skin Cancers

...the rate at which the cancer cells multiply. Those tumors with a faster mitotic rate also had a faster rate of growth as determined by the researchers’ formula. Approximately one-third of all the melanomas (141) grew less than .1 millimeters per month, another one-third (136) grew between .1 millimeters a...

'Clumping' Protein Linked to Return of Ovarian Cancer

...ls of NAC-1 were significantly higher in recurrent tumors compared with primary tumors taken from the same patient. Women whose primary cancers had high levels of NAC-1 were more likely t...

A New Gamma Camera Technique for the Detection of Small Breast Tumors

...hat resembles a mammography unit can detect breast tumors as tiny as one-fifth of an inch in diameter, which...ma camera system and is sensitive enough to detect tumors less than 10 millimeters (about two-fifths of an inch) in diameter in 88 percent of cases where it i...

Genes That Allow Brain Cancer-Causing Stem Cells to Resist Treatment Identified

...ho first isolated cancer stem cells in adult brain tumors in 2004, have now found these cells to be highly r...cant observation. It may guide the way we research tumors and the way we look for therapeutic approaches to treat these tumors because all of our efforts will...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

... the condition that stems from disorders – usually tumors – of the pituitary gland. He wrote a similar revie...s.” Nearly all cases of acromegaly are caused by tumors of the pituitary gland. More than 90 percent of patients with acromegaly have a slow-growing type of...

Miracle Cancer Drug in the Pipeline

... it interferes with new blood vessels growing into tumors and it also prevents the tumors from spreading by inhibiting an enzyme they need to spread with," Prof Parish said. The trials that...

Researchers Find Two Biomarkers With Potential to Predict Breast Cancer Spread

...ese two proteins may allow us to target aggressive tumors with more extensive therapy management to some women, while sparing others from needless treatment.” “Our approach is not to rely on hunting for lymph nodes during surgery, which will then only tell you whether the nodes are positive or negative, b...

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