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Chemicals from a type of marine seaweed, called brown algae polyphenols (BAPs) might protect against skin cancers caused by ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation.
Such were the findings of a new animal study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Researchers applied the BAPs to the skin of hairless mice and fed it to […]
There is no clear connection between mobile phone use and malignant brain tumors -gliomas.
Such were the result of a study conducted in five Northern European countries, appearing in the January 19 online version of the International Journal of Cancer.
Regular use of a mobile phone, duration of use, or the cumulative number of calls had no […]
Compared to standard doses of chemotherapy, a dose-intensive regimen of cisplatin and doxorubicin offered no clinical benefit in patients with the bone cancer osteosarcoma.
Such were the findings of a randomized clinical trial whose data has been reported in the January 17 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
In other cancers such as non-Hodgkin […]
Ikonisys Inc. is a developer of automated cell-based diagnostic products. The diagnostic products of Ikonisys are an automation of a standard but time-consuming laboratory technique: fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), which identifies chromosome aberrations associated with various diseases.
Recently, Ikonisys Inc.’s oncoFISH™ bladder has been cleared by the USFDA for marketing in the United States.
oncoFISH™ bladder […]
Giving patients both radiation and chemotherapy after completely removing invasive pancreatic cancer may improve overall survival rates, according to researchers from Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.
Such finding has been reported by Michele Corsini, M.D., a radiation oncology resident in Rochester and the study’s lead author, at the recent 2007 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
in patients who received concurrent […]
Tamoxifen is a selective estrogen receptor modulator that inhibits the stimulatory effect that estrogen has on the development of specific types of breast cancer.
An estimated over 40,000 recurrences of breast cancer are prevented each year worldwide, thanks to this wonder drug.
It should be taken note that the optimal duration of tamoxifen therapy is five years […]
As reported by Dr. Norman Boyd and colleagues of the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, breast density itself could be a risk factor for breast cancer.
[The other risk factors include having a close relative with breast cancer, carrying one of the known BRCA breast cancer genes and never having borne a child.]
They found that women […]
Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers found out that radiation therapy after lumpectomy (breast-conserving surgery) and five years of treatment with the drug tamoxifen can dramatically reduce the risk of both cancer recurrence and new tumors in older women with early breast cancer.
According to lead author Ann M. Geiger, M.P.H., Ph.D., an associate professor […]
The old notion that aspirin could lead to lethal bleeding of cancer patients who have heart attacks has now been proven wrong by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
According to their new study to be published in the February 1, 2007 issue of the journal Cancer (now available online):
…9 of […]
Under clinical stage development by drugmaker Novacea, is a drug based on vitamin D for patients in the advanced stages of prostate cancer along with chemotherapy drugs – Asentar (DN-101).
Drug makers came up with the idea because vitamin D from sunlight improves the prognosis of certain cancers. But taking natural levels of the vitamin has […]
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Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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