Discovery about DNA repair could lead to improved cancer treatments
9/13/2013
Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have made a basic science discovery that advances the understanding of how DNA repairs itself. When DNA becomes too damaged it ultimately leads to cancer. Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry researcher Mark Glover and his colleagues published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal, Structure (Cell Press), earlier this summer...
Changing part of central line could reduce hospital infections
9/13/2013
Simply replacing the connector in the IV system in patients with central lines could help reduce deadly bloodstream infections, researchers at Georgia Regents University have found. A central line or central catheter is a tube placed in a patient's arm or chest to help deliver fluids, blood, or medications through the large veins near the heart...
Womb cancer risks decrease with exercise, diet and coffee
9/12/2013
A new report reveals that engaging in physical activity, eating healthfully and drinking coffee can all reduce risks of womb cancer, a disease that affects nearly 50,000 women in the US each year, according to the American Cancer Society...
A phone call can change the life of colorectal cancer survivors: study finds
9/12/2013
They say a phone call can change your life and for colorectal or bowel cancer survivors this is true, a new study by a QUT researcher has found. Associate Professor Anna Hawkes, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, evaluated the effects of a telephone delivered program called CanChange aimed at improving health outcomes for people diagnosed with bowel cancer...
Study identifies fibroblast growth factor 18 as an ovarian cancer biomarker
9/12/2013
Ovarian cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in women and is often not detected until the later stages of disease, which contributes to poor prognosis. Biomarkers that can be used for early diagnosis and outcome have been identified; however, many of these have not been evaluated at the biological and clinical levels...
A phone call can change the life of colorectal cancer survivors: study finds
9/12/2013
They say a phone call can change your life and for colorectal or bowel cancer survivors this is true, a new study by a QUT researcher has found. Associate Professor Anna Hawkes, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, evaluated the effects of a telephone delivered program called CanChange aimed at improving health outcomes for people diagnosed with bowel cancer...
New system uses nanodiamonds to deliver chemotherapy directly to brain tumors
9/12/2013
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new drug delivery system using nanodiamonds (NDs) that allows for direct application of chemotherapy to brain tumors with fewer harmful side effects and better cancer-killing efficiency than existing treatments...
Perceptions of cancer care
9/12/2013
How does the public feel about current cancer treatment? This is the question that the Lilly Oncology network, PACE (Patient Access to Cancer care Excellence), attempted to answer through a survey of the general public, cancer patients and caregivers. The results from their international survey will be published in the open access journal ecancermedicalscience, the journal from the IEO and OECI...
Severity of sleep apnea predicts aggressiveness of melanoma
9/12/2013
The severity of sleep apnoea can independently predict the aggressiveness of malignant skin melanoma, according to a new study. The research, presented today (9 September 2013) at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress, adds new evidence to a number of studies that have found a link between cancer and the sleep disorder...
Rare, inherited mutation leaves children susceptible to acute lymphoblastic leukemia
9/12/2013
Researchers have discovered the first inherited gene mutation linked exclusively to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) occurring in multiple relatives in individual families. The discovery of the PAX5 gene mutation was led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and others. The work appears in the current advance online edition of the scientific journal Nature Genetics...