New treatment strategy for breast cancer spread to brain
8/05/2013
A combination of two new therapies already in clinical trials for the treatment of primary malignant brain tumors may also be effective in the treatment of breast cancer that has spread to the brain, according to US researchers. The team, from the University of California Los Angeles, demonstrated their new approach, which combines immunotherapy with gene therapy, in mice...
Novel drug shuts down master protein key to lymphoma
8/05/2013
Researchers have discovered how an experimental drug is capable of completely eradicating human lymphoma in mice after just five doses...
An international research team led by University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) scientists discovered that by preventing cancer cells from entering a state of cellular sleep, cancer drugs are more effective, and there is a lower chance of cancer recurrence...
Catching cancer early - portable diagnostic device may help
8/05/2013
Reaching a clinic in time to receive an early diagnosis for cancer - when the disease is most treatable - is a global problem. And now a team of Chinese researchers proposes a global solution: have a user-friendly diagnostic device travel to the patient, anywhere in the world. As described in the journal Biomicrofluidics, which is produced by AIP Publishing, a team led by Gang Li, Ph.D...
A roadblock to personalized cancer care? Tumor biomarker tests can help
8/05/2013
There's a major roadblock to creating personalized cancer care. Doctors need a way to target treatments to patients most likely to benefit and avoid treating those who will not. Tumor biomarker tests can help do this. The problem, according to a new commentary paper, is that, unlike drugs or other therapies, cancer biomarker tests are undervalued by doctors and patients...
Scientists discover new type of protein modification, may play role in cancer and diabetes
8/05/2013
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a new type of chemical modification that affects numerous proteins within mammalian cells. The modification appears to work as a regulator of important cellular processes including the metabolism of glucose. Further study of this modification could provide insights into the causes of diabetes, cancer and other disorders...
Blocking key enzyme in cancer cells could lead to new therapy
8/05/2013
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have identified a characteristic unique to cancer cells in an animal model of cancer - and they believe it could be exploited as a target to develop new treatment strategies...
Removing a protein enhances defense against bacteria staphylococcus aureus in CGD mice
8/05/2013
Deletion of a protein in white blood cells improves their ability to fight the bacteria staphylococcus aureus and possibly other infections in mice with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), according to a National Institutes of Health study. CGD, a genetic disorder also found in people, is marked by recurrent, life-threatening infections...
Invasive bladder cancer: new finding raises treatment hope
8/04/2013
Researchers from Plymouth University in the UK have discovered a trigger that spurs bladder cancer to become invasive and spread to other parts of the body. Invasive bladder cancer is much more difficult to treat, and the discovery raises hope of new treatments that target this trigger...
Digest this: Cure for cancer may live in our intestines
8/04/2013
Treating a cancerous tumor is like watering a houseplant with a fire hose - too much water kills the plant, just as too much chemotherapy and radiation kills the patient before it kills the tumor...