Breastfeeding reduces threat of breast cancer
8/15/2013
Women who breastfeed for over 6 months are less likely to develop early breast cancer than women who do not breastfeed - as long as they do not smoke - a nurse-led study suggests...
Prostate cancer aggressiveness may be established when the tumor is formed and not alter with time, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Ottawa researchers have developed unique virus-derived particles that can kill human blood cancer cells in the laboratory and eradicate the disease in mice with few side effects. The study is published in Blood Cancer Journal by co-senior authors Drs. David Conrad and John Bell of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa). While Dr...
CDK6 represents a promising target for anti-cancer therapy
8/15/2013
Cell division is tightly controlled by a number of genes and because of the importance of ensuring that the process stays in check - mistakes frequently lead to cancer - mammalian cells often have several inbuilt layers of security...
Mice experience therapeutic changes in glioma after transplantation of neural stem cells
8/15/2013
Neural stem cells transplanted into tumor-bearing rats can hinder tumor cell growth and proliferation; however, the mechanism remains unclear. Abnormal activation of the Ras/Raf/Mek/Erk signaling cascade plays an important role in glioma. Inhibition of this aberrant activity could effectively hinder glioma cell proliferation and promote cell apoptosis...
Breastfeeding cuts breast cancer risks for moms
8/15/2013
Women who breastfeed for over 6 months are less likely to develop early breast cancer than women who do not breastfeed - as long as they do not smoke - a nurse-led study suggests...
Red blood cell flow predicted by computer model
8/15/2013
Adjacent to the walls of our arterioles, capillaries, and venules -- the blood vessels that make up our microcirculation -- there exists a peculiar thin layer of clear plasma, devoid of red blood cells. Although it is just a few millionths of a meter thick, that layer is vital. It controls, for example, the speed with which platelets can reach the site of a cut and start the clotting process...
A new study led by a University of Colorado Cancer Center member recently published in the journal reveals that in young, female cancer survivors, quality of life is significantly impaired long after treatment. The study compared 59 cancer survivors to 66 healthy controls and found that, as expected, cancer survivors showed higher stress and anxiety than the general population...
Cancer cells change while moving throughout body
8/14/2013
For the majority of cancer patients, it's not the primary tumor that is deadly, but the spread or "metastasis" of cancer cells from the primary tumor to secondary locations throughout the body that is the problem. That's why a major focus of contemporary cancer research is how to stop or fight metastasis...
Data from 2nd and 3rd cohorts of patients in multiple myeloma clinical trial
8/14/2013
Patrys Limited (ASX: PAB; "the Company"), a clinical stage biotechnology company, is pleased to release additional clinical data for six multiple myeloma patients treated with PAT-SM6 in the Phase I/IIa clinical trial...