Bollywood Glamorizes Smoking, Reignites Smoking In Movies Debate
6/14/2013
A University of Adelaide expert says that while the war against smoking in Hollywood movies has been largely won, Asian cinema represents the next major battleground for anti-smoking and anti-cancer groups. Dr Peter Pugsley, Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Adelaide, says that as smoking rates have been rising in Asia, so too has the depiction of smoking in Asian cinema...
Which Women Should Receive Preventive Breast Cancer Drugs?
6/14/2013
A new study, published in the journal Cancer Discovery, revealed that genetic variations could be a key indicator of which women are likely and which are unlikely to benefit from tamoxifen or raloxifene for breast cancer prevention. James Ingle, M.D...
Newly Identified Markers May Predict Who Will Respond To Breast Cancer Prevention Therapy
6/13/2013
Genetic variations, known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in or near the genes ZNF423 and CTSO were associated with breast cancer risk among women who underwent prevention therapy with tamoxifen and raloxifene, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have determined that cytoreductive surgery combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CS/HIPEC), a complex procedure to treat advanced abdominal cancers, can be done safely, and may be an effective therapy for select patients. Study results are published in the June issue of Cancer Medicine...
IU Research Team Identifies Genetic Risk For Cancer In Breast Cells
6/13/2013
An Indiana University cancer researcher and his Canadian collaborator have discovered how normal breast precursor cells may be genetically vulnerable to developing into cancer. David Gilley, Ph.D., associate professor of medical and molecular genetics at the IU School of Medicine and a researcher at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, and Connie Eaves, Ph.D...
Low Diastolic Blood Pressure May Be Associated With Brain Atrophy
6/13/2013
Low baseline diastolic blood pressure (DBP) appears to be associated with brain atrophy in patients with arterial disease, whenever declining levels of blood pressure (BP) over time among patients who had a higher baseline BP were associated with less progression of atrophy, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Neurology, a JAMA Network publication...
Recognising Low Blood Sugars Could Help Prevent Brain Damage In Newborn Babies
6/13/2013
Researchers from The University of Manchester studying a rare and potentially lethal childhood disease - which is the clinical opposite of diabetes - have made an important discovery. The team has found newborn babies with transient (also known as short-term) congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) are at risk of developing, long-term disability or brain damage due to low blood sugars...
Studies Demonstrate The Strategy To Kill Melanoma Using Diabetes Drugs To Sensitize Resistant Cells
6/13/2013
Advanced metastatic melanoma is a disease that has proven difficult to eradicate. Despite the success of melanoma-targeting drugs, tumors inevitably become drug resistant and return, more aggressive than before...
Childhood Cancer Survivors At Increased Risk For Chronic Diseases
6/13/2013
Childhood cancer survivors are at a significantly increased risk for undiagnosed, chronic diseases through adulthood, emphasizing the importance of life-long clinical health screenings for this high-risk population...
Improved PET Medical Image Analysis To Optimize Radiotherapy Treatments
6/13/2013
Elena Prieto-Azkarate, a graduate in Telecommunications Engineering at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and member of the Nuclear Medicine Service of the University College Hospital of Navarre, has implemented 12 algorithms to process medical images produced by means of PET (Positron Emission Tomography)...