Health Challenges For Cancer Survivors Posed By Rural Living
6/10/2013
Cancer survivors who live in rural areas aren't as healthy as their urban counterparts, according to new research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Kathryn E. Weaver, Ph.D...
How and when evolution generates diversity or gives form to proteins, living beings' functional building blocks, are essential questions that still surround the theory of evolution. In humans, the majority of genes have emerged via genetic duplication, a strategy in which a gene generates two identical copies that can evolve to generate different proteins...
Compound Killed Melanoma Cells And Stopped Them From Metastasizing In Mouse Model
6/08/2013
Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. Hit number one destroys cells in the main tumor, and the second hit blocks the spread of the cancer to other sites in the body, according to their report in the journal ACS Chemical Biology...
Matrix-Bio Inc., a diagnostics company that uses metabolite profiling to detect cancer and other diseases, has signed an exclusive agreement with the Purdue Research Foundation optioning metabolite biomarker technology and eight patent applications to evaluate the commercial potential of cancer diagnostics tests based on the technologies...
More Cancer Specialist Nurses To Improve Hospital Care
6/07/2013
Patients battling cancer have a better experience of care at hospitals that employ more cancer specialist nurses. Research from the University of Southampton, shows that patients of better staffed hospitals are more likely to report being given more emotional support by nurses who work well together on wards...
Never-Before-Used Targeted Treatment For Atypical Chronic Neutrophilic Leukemia
6/07/2013
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes genetic testing of a rare blood cancer called atypical chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL) that revealed a new mutation present in most patients with the disease. The mutation also serves as an Achilles heel, allowing doctors at the University of Colorado Cancer Center to prescribe a never-before-used, targeted treatment...
Half Of Britons Will Have Cancer During Their Lifetime By 2020
6/07/2013
According to Macmillan Cancer Support, by 2020, nearly half of the people in the UK will get cancer in their lifetime, a statistic that poses what the UK charity describes as a "herculean" challenge for the National Health Service (NHS)...
Combined Ketogenic Diet And Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Proves Effective Against Metastatic Cancer
6/07/2013
A combination of nontoxic dietary and hyperbaric oxygen therapies effectively increased survival time in a mouse model of aggressive metastatic cancer, a research team from the Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory at the University of South Florida has found...
Successful Breast Cancer Pilot Study Funded By Volleyball Tournaments
6/07/2013
Funded by volleyball tournaments, a new study released this week shows success in pinpointing individualized treatment for women with metastatic breast cancer, according to George Mason University researchers...
Biomarker Identification May Lead To New Noninvasive Test For Colorectal Cancer Detection
6/07/2013
Serum DNA Analysis Allows Detection of Early Disease, Say Researchers in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics The average 5-year survival for colorectal cancer (CRC) is less than 10% if metastasis occurs, but can reach 90% if detected early. A new non-invasive test has been developed that measures methylation of the SDC2 gene in tissues and blood sera...