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The Fruit Fly to Aid in Cancer Research

...atfield, AICR's scientific adviser: "Metastasis of tumours (the spread of cancer cells around the body) is the cause of mortality in the majority of human cancers and it is a complex, multi-step process. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie each stage is therefore an important goal for cancer...

Cancer Drug Helps An Anti-Cancer Virus To Act More Exhaustively

...dent of Chiocca's discovered that the virus killed tumours more effectively when the animals were first given...urthermore the researchers found that in rat brain tumours treated with the virus but not with the drug, IFNg levels rose by 10 times after six hours and by mo...

Study Provides Evidence That Obesity Leads To A More Aggressive Ovarian Cancer

...rs. There are several types of ovarian cancer, but tumours that begin from surface cells of the ovary (epithe...ated with obesity may be caused by more aggressive tumours rather than delays in diagnosis. Andrew J. Li, M.D. of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre and Women's...

Microcapsules target cancer cells

...ty in Munich did this study. Treating malignant tumours is difficult. Doctors have to destroy the tumour, but healthy tissue needs to be preserved. Chemotherapy tends to kill diseased cells, at the same time causing great damage to the body in general. So scientists are looking for ways to destroy only th...

Tiny Sphere Of Nanoparticles Can Fight Cancer

...5 nanometers in diameter. Blood vessels that serve tumours are more porous than normal blood vessels, with pores of 100 to 780 nanometers wide. Normal blood vessel pores are 2 nanometers or less in diameter. Second, the liposome -- a commercially available version known as DOPC -- has no electrical charge....

Britain’s cancer initiatives leap forward with a miracle dru

...reating kidney cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST). This drug is not easy on the pocket, costing about ￡2,400 per patient on a monthly basis. There is concern that the high cost of this drug might cause NHS to be careful in its use....

Onchocerciasis: Presentation And Treatment

...ereas male parasites measure 3 to 5 cm. Worms form tumours in infected indivuduals, and some of them are easily visible. Fecunded females emit daily 1,200 larves (microfilaria) measuring 150-360 micras, which are disseminated through the host’s skin, eyes and other organs. Affected individuals can host 50-20...

Move to Raise Awareness of Ovarian Cancer

...isited hospitals in most capital cities. Ovarian tumours have one of the highest fatality rates among all types of cancer, killing about 70 per cent of those diagnosed within five years. So far the disease is poorly understood and in the absence of any screening test, it is often not detected until it is t...

Men's Health - Prevention is the Key

...n to die from heart or lung disease, and malignant tumours - conditions that are often treatable if detected early enough through regular GP consultations. Yet research has shown that men are less likely than women to report minor illness or mental health problems, and less inclined to visit their GP. "P...

BreastScreen Australia Is Being Sued Towards Medical Negligence

... a mother of three, was diagnosed in 2003 with two tumours in her left breast in spite of having had regular mammograms since 1998. Stating that she is very angry and upset about the negligence when she underwent a mastectomy and was told her life expectancy had been reduced by an unknown timeframe despite p...

New Drugs Could Save Lung Cancer Patients

... effective in the clinic management of lung cancer tumours that have developed drug resilience.' Dr Settleman said in a statement. In United Kingdom, around 33,000 people die of lung cancer each year. (Source:PTI News)...

Exposure To Artificial Light Could Be Cancerous

...ormones and raises the chance of developing breast tumours //. Women particularly those who work night shifts...l light could stimulate the growth of human breast tumours by directly suppressing the levels of a key hormone ‘melatonin’. Explaining that melatonin is secr...

New Revolutionary Drug Could Stop the Spread of HIV

... fight off infections such as pneumonia, diarrhea, tumours and other illnesses. Unable to fight back, most people die within three years of the first signs of the disease. Most of all HIV infections have been transmitted through unprotected sexual intercourse with someone who is already infected with the ...

Skin Cancer Risk Reduced by Taking Green Leafy Vegetables

...kes of green leafy vegetables may help prevent SCC tumours among people who have prior skin cancers,' the researchers claimed. 'A high intake of unmodified dairy, such as whole milk, cheese, and yogurt, may increase SCC risk in susceptible individuals,' the researchers said. Exposure to the ultraviolet (...

GSK’s New Anticancer Drug A Huge Success In Drug trail

...ug, Herceptin, Tykerb can reduce the size of brain tumours caused by breast cancer. This is a problem for 30-40% of the women who suffer from the aggressive, recurring form of the cancer. The data also demonstrates that Tykerb works on patients where Herceptin has failed, and shows a significant increase in ...

Saket Hospital to get Multi-speciality Facilities from Max Healthcare

...pected to be a boon in cases of 'complicated brain tumours that are buried deep or positioned near the spinal cord (and) are difficult to remove,' said A.N. Jha, director neurosurgery Max Super Speciality Hospital. Positioning itself initially as the leading hospital group in the national capital region, M...

UV Rays Affects the Power of Vision

...V rays can cause other problems to the eye such as tumours on the surface of the eye, photokeratitis or snow blindness, an inflammation of cornea. Hence through this report it is essential that one has to understand the dangers of UV radiation and its implications on the eye....

Melbourne Cluster Of Brain Tumour Not Due To Radiation From Phone Towers

...ely explanation for the Melbourne cluster of brain tumours than radiation from mobile phones or any other env...e. . Professor Coates explained that benign brain tumours especially the five of the seven cases detected would typically take many years or even decades to d...

New Brain Tumor Vaccine Developed By US Scientists

...he online edition of BBC News. One in four brain tumours are glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive form of the primary brain tumours known collectively as gliomas. These tumours arise from the supporting glial cells of the brain. T...

New Healthcare Scheme For Rural Areas Launched

...cases like cataract surgery, minor ear surgery and tumours on external body parts. To facilitate the programme, the NBE has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to use its network across India. 'Apart from providing direct training in over 450...

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