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Radio-frequency Ablation Offers Hope for People With Inoperable Kidney Tumours

People with inoperable kidney and liver tumours may rely on a new, non-surgical procedure called R...RI in three months, so that he could make sure the tumours were gone, explained Bershad, who was diagnosed with stage II renal cell carcinoma, the most common ...

Blunders in Epilepsy Care Cost Lives, and Money UK Report

... from birth injuries, head injuries, stroke, brain tumours and alcoholism, while some seizures are thought to have a genetic basis. However, no one exact cause has been pinned down....

Childhood Cancer can Lead to Chronic Health Problems Later in Life: Study

... found that children who had been treated for bone tumours had the most health problems to contend with down the road - far more than kids who beat leukemia or Wilms tumour (a tumor of the kidney). Their analysis also showed that radiotherapy, as a stand-alone treatment, was associated with a much higher d...

Survivors of Rare Ovarian Cancer may Retain Menstrual Function and Reproductive Ability

...s to germ cell tumour survivors. Ovarian germ cell tumours often occur in girls and young women, with the average age of diagnosis occurring in the teenage years. "Before the 1970s, there was no effective treatment for ovarian germ cell tumour patients and the death rate was extremely high. However, with ...

Scientists Identify New Possible 'biomarker' for Pancreatic Cancer

...ry low levels of RON, but our study showed that as tumours progress, so does the level of RON expression in t...ere maintained in 'metastases,' the areas that the tumours spread to," explains Waltz, Associate Professor and Director of the Oncology Research Program, Surge...

Treatment of Premature Babies, Opossums Could Help

...oughs in the understanding and treatment of facial tumours afflicting the Tasmanian Devils, carnivorous marsu... about the little understood scourge of the facial tumours afflicting Tasmanian Devils, Dr Belov said. The sequences would give the experts the tools to meas...

New Cancer Therapy That can Be Less Painful

...y have developed a technique to attack and destroy tumours without causing such painful side effects such as ... little parcel." In tests, the technique reduced tumours in animals without side effects - and by using only a very small amount of drug. The mini-cells - ...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

...to die too." In lab experiments, mice with bowel tumours that received the therapy lived twice as long as those that did not. The researchers suggest their technique could one day be used as a treatment for advanced bowel cancer that doesnt respond to standard chemotherapy. Professor John Toy, medical di...

A Fresh Alternative to Painful Chemotherapy Developed in UK

...roduction of a female hormone that encourages some tumours to grow. An agonist achieves a normal action, often mimicking the action of a naturally occurring substance. Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone is a naturally occurring hormone that controls sex hormones in both men and women. Thus, an LHRH ag...

Breast Cancer Patients Follow-up Devalued

...nt reason for follow-up, with the detection of new tumours or metastases, psychological problems and recurrence as the next most important reasons. Mr Donnelly said: "This study shows that the NICE recommendations that follow-up should be no longer than three years are not considered safe or acceptable by ...

New Respiratory Virus in Children Linked to Cancer Discovered

...lyomavirus. He said it had been linked to brain tumours in laboratory monkeys but debate continued about whether the viruses were also associated with respiratory tumours. Prof Sloots said the development of a vaccine from scratch could take between 15 and 20 years. 'What we need to do first of all ...

Malaria Parasite can Cause Severe Lymphatic Cancer

...ng. In the disease immune cells turn cancerous and tumours build up in the lymph nodes, which often results in the swelling of the tongue and bulging of cheeks making it difficult for patients to eat. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) which commonly causes glandular fever or the kissing disease is believed to cause...

Photodynamic Therapy can Scramble the Immune System to Fight Cancer Spread

...dvanced cancer at the same time as targeting local tumours , according to research published in the British J...esearch, explains: "We took laboratory models with tumours in the shoulder and lungs. This was to simulate advanced cancer that may start somewhere locally, li...

Drugs may Help Turn on Gene Switched Off in Cancer

...hat the gene was turned off in about 15 percent of tumours studied, including cells from lung, oesophageal, ovarian, bladder, colon and breast cancers. When the BRM gene was exposed to some of the existing inhibitor drugs, it was turned on. The finding attains significance because many times cancers occur ...

Hormone Therapy An Alternative to Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer

...used with great success in the treatment of breast tumours - attacks cancer by turning off its oestrogen supp...ne tumour marker, CA-125, to track the progress of tumours during hormone treatment. They discovered that one quarter of the women showed no tumour growth afte...

Breast Cancer Drug may Offer Hope for Treating Ovarian Cancer

...en found that the drug stopped oestrogen supply to tumours for almost half a year, in 25pct of the women. In one-third of the women, whose tumours were largely dependent on oestrogen, the drug deferred chemotherapy. The researchers expect the d...

Novartis Gleevec Found Effective in Treating Gastro-intestinal Tumors

...STs, metastatic gastro-intestinal tumors. These tumours do have a rather complicated name. They are found in the digestive system - the gastrointestinal tract. They develop from cells of connective tissues that control the movements of the gut. The tissues that support body organs are called the 'st...

Sun Exposure Severe in Males

...emale mice skin cancer. "We found males got skin tumours earlier, got more of them, and more of the tumours were severe," assistant professor Tatiana M. Oberyszyn was quoted as saying. The researchers are n...

Preventing Cancer Without Killing Cells

...more important safeguard mechanism for suppressing tumours arising from dysfunctional telomeres. Aged cells have abnormal chromosomes with dysfunctional telomeres – shorter ends – that can promote tumorigenesis in the absence of the tumour suppressor p53, and may be related to the higher incidence of cancer...

New Non-toxic Therapies for Breast, Ovarian Cancers

... then move away from the original site to form new tumours at other sites. Also, the protein causes tumour ce...haracteristic cell shape changes seen in cancerous tumours and possibly how these cells grow and metastasize. It gives us a whole new target for therapy," says...

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