Doctors Warned to Keep Track of Tumorous Lymph Nodes

Scientists have come out with study results that encourage health care providers to take into account the number of lymph nodes// marked by the presence of tumor cells in colon cancer patients, taken during follow up. This, researchers opine, may be a definite clue to chances of reccurence , as ...

Junghans named PI in $5.9 million breast cancer grant

...c breast cancers via this emerging technology. "T-cells have the capacity to hunt down and eliminate infected host cells, or when properly directed, tumorous host cells anywhere in the body," said Junghans. "We propose a therapy with intent to cure metastatic, widely disseminated tumors in patients who othe...

The navel: A single, safe surgical access route for kidney extraction

...out the world's first transvaginal nephrectomy due to kidney cancer also a minimally invasive technique; this technique made it possible to extract a tumorous kidney using only 2 small 1-cm incisions in the abdomen and another incision that cannot be seen, inside the vagina. Since then, Dr. Alcaraz and his t...

Molecular marker identifies normal stem cells as intestinal tumor source

...t the stem cells stopped making normal intestine and made tumors instead. "We saw a dramatic change in these laboratory models," Gilbertson said. "The tumorous tissue ultimately replaced the entire normal intestine. In terms of clinical importance, now that we have isolated both the normal, parental stem cell...

Physicians at Northwestern Memorial Offer Sun Safety Tips Just in Time for the Start of Summer

...ed, cause of skin damage. Sunburn is a common, and painful, signal of overexposure to UV rays. In fact, over 90 percent of all skin cancers, including tumorous growths such as basal cell carcinomas and melanomas, are associated with UV radiation. Sunscreen is a powerful, year-round safeguard against sun damag...

Synthetic molecules hold promise for new family of anti-cancer drugs

...ssues. The researchers see this as a precursor to the development of a new generation of anti-cancer drugs that induce, selectively, apoptosis only to tumorous cells. These drugs are expected to be highly effective while inducing fewer side effects than current anti-cancer drugs. ...

New strategies with greater antitumorous efficacy

... agents that are efficacious in the destruction of tumorous cells are, at the same time, extremely toxic for t...ic treatments and studying the differences between tumorous cells and healthy ones. A research team from th...ted various biomodulators on a number of different tumorous modules such as melanoma, sarcoma and cancer of th...

Novel Treatment Beneficial for Colon and Liver Cancer

...w pharmaceutical format called lipopolyplex. This compound aids the genetic material in penetrating into the damaged cells, and allows drug release in tumorous organs. Experimentation with the new drug in mice has shown that it slows tumor growth with respect to those animals subjected to other proc...

Simple Breath Test may Detect Lung Cancer

... that change color when a person with lung cancer exhales on to it. The principle behind this is quite simple, though the technology is not. tumorous growths or cancer cells in the lung release some volatile organic chemicals. These are passed into the air that leaves the diseased lungs. These compo...

A New Ultrasound Technique to Detect Breast Cancer

...Generally tumors are found to be harder and less elastic than benign lumps and thus the test can tell a dangerous growth from a harmless one. “A tumorous lump should distort very little in response to movement,” said Richard Barr, “whereas a benign one is much more malleable.” “The finding, if con...

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Molecular Marker Identifies Normal Stem Cells as Intestinal Tumor Source

...t the stem cells stopped making normal intestine and made tumors instead. "We saw a dramatic change in these laboratory models," Gilbertson said. "The tumorous tissue ultimately replaced the entire normal intestine. In terms of clinical importance, now that we have isolated both the normal, parental stem cell...

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How an enzyme tells stem cells which way to divide

...r regions by aPKC, the stem cell divides symmetrically, with both daughter cells adopting the same fate, In turn, Prehoda said, these cells can become tumorous as they continue to rapidly divide without proper polarization. ...

The quest for specific anti-inflammatory treatment

...lerosis, where, due to a constant state of inflammation, the cells are destabilised, provoking neoplasic processes, i.e. they generate new tissue of a tumorous nature. And this constant inflammation has great influence on the cells. They are destabilised and may cause an uncontrolled growth of the cells, even...

Killing brain tumors from within: A 'Trojan horse' approach

...ie. The lethal RNA approach has been applied to mice in which human brain tumors were grown. The tests proved 100% effective in eliminating the tumorous growths. An article on the work of Prof. Levitzki, along with his associate Dr. Shir and Professors Manfred Orgris and Ernst Wagner of Ludwig-Ma...

Agilent Technologies new genome analysis technology set to accelerate Australia fight against mesothelioma

...lent's new microarray techniques in comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) will allow researchers to rapidly and reliably identify genetic changes in tumorous cells. It is believed that specific genetic changes may accompany the onset and progression of the disease. Dr. Andrew Holloway of the Peter MacCal...