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The well known major risk factors for developing bladder cancer are prolonged exposure to certain environmental pollutants and chemicals.
As the body absorbs carcinogenic chemicals, such as cigarette smoke, the chemicals are transferred to the blood, filtered out by the kidneys and expelled from the body through the urine.
Greater concentrations of chemicals in the urine can […]
Wow, it’s Monday again!? Yeah it is. Another manic Monday…
I hope you guys had a great weekend. I hope you are recharged, rested and was able to unwind.
Here are the top five I found today, at the cancer front:
Fat Women ‘At Greater Cancer Risk’
Alzheimer’s or cancer: Which disease would you rather die from?
Eating broccoli can […]
HPV or Human Papillomavirus is a common cause of sexually transmitted diseases where humans are exposed to and will fall ill when colonized by the virus from sexual relations.
Previous studies have identified that HPV may have serious consequences that include some types of cancer: cervical, anus, vulva, penis, oropharyngeal (the middle part of the throat […]
How would bladder cancer be diagnosed? A battery of screenings that often include cytoscopy - a painful procedure that uses a small camera threaded through the urethra to image the bladder’s interior.
What if you only have an infection after all? Then the battery of tests were not only a waste of time and money, but […]
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 […]
Scientists at Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center probably have identified a potential target for drugs by demonstrating that a growth factor protein called proepithelin plays a crucial role in the spread of bladder cancer.
Because proepithelin seem not to strongly promoter cell proliferation but instead promotes migration and invasion (two crucial steps leading […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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