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Scientists Tout New Prostate Cancer Test

...,000 U.S. men this year. Doctors usually check for tumors with a prostate biopsy, which uses needles to gath... later found to have cancer, 52 of them aggressive tumors that can be deadly. The scientists found that "PSA density, by itself, was the best discriminator ...

Philadelphia Researchers Found A Novel Way To Fight Several Kind of Cancers

...-genetic imaging that doesn't require transfecting tumors with a "reporter" gene, the scientists say. "Th... produces to enable us to see the virus-associated tumors with radiolabeled FIAU." The researchers screened 2,700 agents until they hit upon Velcade, a tar...

Cancer Cells Forming Blood Vessels Send Their Copper to the Edge

...d wound healing. But it also enables the spread of tumors throughout the body, so researchers have been scrambling for ways to stop angiogenesis in the fight against cancer. One element critical to blood vessel growth is copper, a vital nutrient that plays important roles in many life processes. Compounds...

More Americans Suffer from Vertebral Compression Fractures

... vertebral hemangiomas (benign, malformed vascular tumors composed of newly formed blood vessels) ?Vertebral osteonecrosis (a condition resulting from poor blood supply to an area of bone, which causes bone death) ?Reinforcement of a pathologically weak vertebral body before a surgical stabilization procedu...

Glaxo Files Cancer Drug For Approval With FDA

...l for Tykerb on its efficacy against neck and head tumors will commence soon. Jean-Pierre Garnier who heads Glaxo Smithkline said that the drug will be given to people who have just had surgery as part of phase III trial to prevent the tumor from growing in size. As per the report on Phase I study presented...

Lung Cancer Risk High Among Women

... they’re more likely than men to have slow-growing tumors that rarely show symptoms in the early stages. The risk. One of the problems inherent in any screening test is that the test may suggest there is cancer when there really is none. A lung biopsy, the next step in confirming a diagnosis, is an invasi...

Cancer Drug Avastin Fights Brain Tumors too

...hemotherapy agent in patients with recurrent brain tumors called gliomas. Good news -- the two drugs togethe...going into treatment -- those with malignant brain tumors that have recurred after initial treatment," says the lead researcher whose findings appear in the j...

“Bridge” Protein Spurs Deadliest Stages of Breast Cancr

... active gene that induced metastatic breast cancer tumors and another that grew breast cancer cells with low potential for metastasis. The mutant mice showed minor effects from the initial growth of breast cancer cells, Feng and his team found, indicating that Gab-2 has little effect on inducing cancer ce...

Cancer Drug can Extend Survival in Patients With Deadly Brain Tumors

...relatively new type of drug that shrinks cancerous tumors by cutting off their blood supply, can slow the gr...y agent in patients with recurrent cancerous brain tumors called gliomas. They found that the two drugs together halted tumor growth up to twice as long as co...

New Drugs Shows Promise in Slowing the Progression of Prostate Cancer

...ssion. MRI and CAT scans were used to evaluate the tumors during the period of drug therapy. While no shrinkage of tumors was reported, retrospective analysis showed that survival rate was prolonged to 16.4 months with the...

'Gateway' Gene Discovered for Brain Cancer

...velopment. Also, studies have suggested that brain tumors might arise from aberrant neural stem cells or the...t cell types,' commented the researchers. 'Brain tumors remain a major cause of cancer-related death despite advances in surgery, imaging, and conventional ...

New Drug Promises Prolonged Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients

...ssion. MRI and CAT scans were used to evaluate the tumors during the period of drug therapy. While no shrinkage of tumors was reported, retrospective analysis showed that survival rate was prolonged to 16.4 months with the...

First Treatment to Directly Target Tumor Blood Supply

...are not new. However, other such treatments starve tumors of their blood supply indirectly, by reducing bloo...lved 27 cancer patients with a wide range of solid tumors -- including kidney, bladder, lung, breast, colorectal, pancreas and melanoma. All patients had wide...

Emerging Research Heralds New Era of Breast Cancer Management

...e patient's own immune system to attack developing tumors are being tested in animals with encouraging results. Preliminary clinical trials in breast cancer patients have also shown promising immune responses, although much remains to be done in this complex, but promising, area of research. "During the l...

Scientists Develop a Harmless Multi-Tasking Reovirus

... Officer at Oncolytics, "but we also observed that tumors sometimes continue to shrink long after the virus is gone." Immunologic work now suggests that reovirus exposure is "educating" the immune system to recognize and kill the same cancer cells that were attacked by reovirus. "If you can teach the imm...

New Protein Inhibitor Halts Growth Of Cancerous Cells

...ers show that the inhibitor can halt the growth of tumors in mice and cancer-derived cells growing in culture. The findings are reported in companion papers reported by two collaborating groups—one (Lenart et al.) led by Jan-Michael Peters of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, and t...

Extend Cervical Smears to Younger Women, Insist Specialists

... such as CIN3 or carcinoma in situ ; pre-cancerous tumors that are precursors of cervical cancer. The NH...and treatments. Accordingly, most pre-cancerous tumors detected as CIN3 by cervical smears end up resolving by themselves and hence do not need treatment....

Sea Creature's Toxin Could Lead to Promising Cancer Treatment

...rials, a synthetic form of the toxin reduced human tumors implanted in mice without the harmful side effects...and colon cancers. While all three drugs reduced tumors in the mice, the known drugs caused significant weight loss and loss of white blood cells while AB-5...

Cancer Therapy Based on Missile Detection

..."researchers were having trouble using it to treat tumors deep within the body," said Fenn. Further, it's di...perative chemotherapy," Fenn said. In this study tumors shrunk by approximately 50 percent more in women treated with both the MIT technique and chemotherap...

Scientists Identify Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells

...rding to some researchers. Thus, they remain after tumors shrink and may be responsible for cancer recurrenc...th compromised immune systems. Researchers removed tumors after they grew, and then sorted millions of cancer cells to isolate those that had one or more of t...

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