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A “missing link” between metabolic pathways and cell reproduction has been discovered by researchers at Gene Network Sciences, Inc. (GNS) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine.
According to Dr. Steve Dowdy, the principal UCSD investigator in the collaboration […]
As a result of an ongoing collaboration between the Prostate Cancer Research and Educational Foundation (PC-REF) and MedInsight Research Institute, the anti-cough medication noscapine has been found to be effective against prostate cancer.
Noscapine, a non-addictive derivative of opium, has been used worldwide since the 1950’s as an anti-cough medication. Noscapine was originally proposed as an […]
Woman’s health blogger Florence Cardinal told her breast cancer story at Well Woman Blog.
Florence tells us how she at the young age of 12 dealt with her mother’s breast cancer and how the process affected her outlook about cancer in general.
Mom recovered, but it was a long road. Even after she came home she had […]
Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe and Mayo Clinic will collaborate for the development of vaccine for cancer prevention.
According to George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute:
“Clearly, our arsenal of therapeutics and knowledge of cancer has significantly advanced since the ‘war on cancer’ was declared a generation ago, but […]
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common cancer in children. In such cases when the WNT pathway becomes altered, administration of medication like quercetine or Decitabine® normalizes this cell control pathway.
With this group of medicines, chemotherapy results are enhanced and survival rates improved.
Such were the findings of Spanish Scientists as described in the journal Blood […]
Breast cancer patients who switched to Aromasin after 2-3 years of tamoxifen regimen were 17% more likely to survive and 25% less likely to have cancer recurrence, compared to patients who continued on tamoxifen for a full five years.
Aromasin, a third-generation aromatase inhibitor, is the only anti- hormonal therapy in a single trial shown to […]
Cancer stem cells are the small number of cancer cells that are able to replicate to promote tumor growth.
The failure of current cancer treatments, as believed by cancer researchers, is due to the fact that they don’t target or kill such stem cells.
Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center are the first to […]
The best way to treat patients with blood cancers (certain leukemias and lymphomas) is by peripheral blood stem-cell grafts from immunologically-matched donors.
The setback however is the risk of one major complication: “graft-versus-host disease” (GVHD) - a rejection of recipient tissues by the donor’s T cells that see their new host as ‘non-self’.
60% of recipients develop […]
Pioneered by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center surgeons, an endoscopic brain surgery has been found to be potentially safer and in most cases more effective that conventional surgery in children with life-threatening tumors.
The Expanded Endonasal Approach (EEA) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that involves using narrow scopes and surgical tools inserted through the nasal […]
As reported by scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the current issue of Cancer Research:
…a tubular network within cells, known as the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), is regulated by an enzyme that is tightly linked to tumor growth and development.
The research showed that an enzyme known as fatty acid synthase is vital for […]
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Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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