Invasive bladder cancer: new finding raises treatment hope
8/03/2013
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...
In cancer research, discovering a new protein that plays a role in cancer is like finding a key and a treasure map: follow the clues and eventually there could be a big reward...
Curbing breast cancer's craving for sugar
8/03/2013
Researchers have discovered a way to potentially combat chemotherapy-resistant breast cancer, according to a study published in the journal Chemical Science. Breast Cancer Campaign (BCC) scientists at the University of Southampton in the UK have come across a way of curbing breast cancer cells' craving for sugar. Research has shown that cancer cells thrive on sugar from the blood...
Omega-3 role in preventing oral and skin cancers
8/02/2013
Foods containing omega-3 fatty acids may help in the prevention of early- and late-stage oral and skin cancers, according to a study published in the journal Carcinogenesis. UK researchers from Queen Mary, University of London grew cell cultures in the laboratory from several different cell lines...
Iron-rich foods to prevent anemia could lower dementia risk
8/02/2013
Researchers have discovered that low iron levels in blood and anemia could be linked to increased risks for dementia, according to a study published in the journal Neurology. Anemia occurs when the number of red blood cells or concentrations of hemoglobin, a protein inside red blood cells, are low...
Data from the LUX-Lung clinical trial programme, investigating afatinib* in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), have been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology...
Ancient viruses that function in early human development may play role in cancer
8/02/2013
The St. Laurent Institute, a non-profit medical research institute focused on the systems biology of disease, today announced in a study published in the July edition of Genome Biology, that genetic matter, previously ignored by the scientific community, may play an important role in cancer...
New signal stabilizes atherosclerotic plaques
8/02/2013
Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease with accumulation of cholesterol in the vessel walls. The atherosclerotic plaque is built up throughout life and when it ruptures it leads to heart attack or stroke...
Stem cell researchers produce new model of leukemia development
8/02/2013
Eight years ago, two former Stanford University postdoctoral fellows, one of them still in California and the other at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) in Cambridge, began exchanging theories about why patients with leukemia stop producing healthy blood cells...
The naked mole-rat's secret to staying cancer free
8/02/2013
Mice and rats have long since been a standard animal model for cancer research, mainly due to their short lifespan of four years on average and high incidence of cancer. Naked mole rats however, are a mystery among mammals. This social tiny African subterranean rodent has a maximum lifespan exceeding 30 years and most surprisingly, is cancer-resistant...