Previously Unknown Surveillance Mechanism Used By Cells To Monitor Oxidatively Damaged DNA
6/18/2013
In current health lore, antioxidants are all the rage, as "everybody knows" that reducing the amount of "reactive oxygen species" -- cell-damaging molecules that are byproducts of cellular metabolism -- is critical to staying healthy...
Low-Risk Prostate Cancer, Observation Safe And Cost-Effective
6/18/2013
Observation is safe, cost-effective, and results in a better quality of life for patients with low-risk, localized prostate cancer, rather than undergoing immediate treatment, says a study carried out at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The study findings were published in Annals of Internal Medicine...
Low-Risk Prostate Cancer, Observation Is Safe
6/18/2013
"Watchful waiting" is safe, cost-effective, and results in a better quality of life for patients with low-risk, localized prostate cancer, rather than undergoing immediate treatment, says a study carried out at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The study findings were published in Annals of Internal Medicine...
Mathematical Models Being Used In The Fight Against Cancer
6/18/2013
Here's a good reason to pay attention in math class. Nature Communications has published a paper from Ottawa researchers, outlining how advanced mathematical modelling can be used in the fight against cancer...
Growth Of Breast Cancer Cells Halted By Osteoporosis Drug, Even In Resistant Tumors
6/18/2013
A drug approved in Europe to treat osteoporosis has now been shown to stop the growth of breast cancer cells, even in cancers that have become resistant to current targeted therapies, according to a Duke Cancer Institute study...
In The Spread Of Cancer, A Developmental Protein Plays A Role
6/18/2013
A protein used by embryo cells during early development, and recently found in many different types of cancer, apparently serves as a switch regulating the spread of cancer, known as metastasis, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center in the journal Cancer Research...
Protein Protects Against Breast Cancer Recurrence In Animal Model
6/18/2013
According to the American Cancer Society, nearly 40,000 women in the United States will succumb to breast cancer this year. Most of these women will die not from the primary tumor but rather tumor recurrence - the reappearance of the disease following treatment. Precisely what causes breast cancer recurrence has been poorly understood...
Blood Thinners To Prevent Clots Not Reaching Some Patients
6/18/2013
Researchers at Johns Hopkins report that hospitalized patients do not receive more than one in 10 doses of doctor-ordered blood thinners prescribed to prevent potentially lethal or disabling blood clots, a decision they say may be fueled by misguided concern by patients and their caregivers...
Funding For 'Holy Grail' Of Anticoagulant Drugs, University Of Cambridge
6/17/2013
XO1 Ltd, a University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke's Hospital spin-out company, has raised $11 million in funding to develop a new anticoagulant medication which prevents stroke and heart attacks without causing bleeding. The company explained that the new drug, a synthetic antibody called Ichorcumab, has the potential to save millions of lives...
Abnormalities In New Molecular Pathway May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
6/17/2013
A new molecular pathway involving the gene ZNF365 has been identified and abnormalities in that pathway may predict worse outcomes for patients with breast cancer, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...