Scientists put cancer-fighting power back into frozen broccoli
8/08/2013
There was bad news, then good news from University of Illinois broccoli researchers this month. In the first study, they learned that frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane, the cancer-fighting phytochemical in fresh broccoli. But a second study demonstrated how the food industry can act to restore the frozen vegetable's health benefits...
Par-1 a new component of the Hippo signaling pathway
8/08/2013
In the development of animals, which is closely controlled by diverse pathways, the regulation of organ size has been a long-standing puzzle...
New findings could lead to drugs that fight back when tumors don't respond to treatment
8/08/2013
Cancer drugs known as ErbB inhibitors have shown great success in treating many patients with lung, breast, colon and other types of cancer. However, ErbB drug resistance means that many other patients do not respond, and even among those who do, tumors commonly come back...
Brain cancer: groundbreaking MRI-guided gene therapy
8/08/2013
Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have conducted the first real-time MRI-guided gene therapy for patients with brain cancer, advancing the clinical trial of new cancer drug, Toca 511...
"Fork reversal" repair enables tumors to elude anti-cancer drugs
8/08/2013
In research recently published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Alessandro Vindigni, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Saint Louis University, discovered how cancer cells respond to the damage caused by an important class of anti-cancer drugs, topoisomerase I inhibitors...
Tumor resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy promoted by immune system molecule
8/08/2013
A team of scientists, led by Napoleone Ferrara, MD, has shown for the first time that a signaling protein involved in inflammation also promotes tumor resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy...
A reliable marker for venous thromboembolism after craniotomy - D-dimer plasma level
8/08/2013
The D-dimer test is often used to rule out the presence of venous thromboembolism; however, the test has been considered unreliable in postoperative patients because D-dimer levels may rise after surgery...
Medics' mission to roll out cervical cancer screening in Uganda
8/07/2013
Academics and healthcare professionals from Manchester and London traveled to Uganda this week (6 August) to push on with ambitious plans to try to help the country's Ministry of Health roll out cervical cancer screening to all women by 2020...
Medics' mission to roll out cervical cancer screening in Uganda
8/07/2013
Academics and healthcare professionals from Manchester and London traveled to Uganda this week (6 August) to push on with ambitious plans to try to help the country's Ministry of Health roll out cervical cancer screening to all women by 2020...
New breast cancer drug Perjeta (pertuzumab) not recommended by NICE, UK
8/07/2013
NICE rejects Perjeta® (pertuzumab) following the Department of Health indecision on funding proposals, calling into question future access when the Cancer Drug Fund ends in January 2014. The Department of Health (DH) could be set to let down thousands of patients with an aggressive form of advanced breast cancer...