New Pathway Identified That Enhances Tamoxifen To Tame Aggressive Breast Cancer
4/25/2013
Tamoxifen is a time-honored breast cancer drug used to treat millions of women with early-stage and less-aggressive disease, and now a University of Rochester Medical Center team has shown how to exploit tamoxifen's secondary activities so that it might work on more aggressive breast cancer...
Ovarian Cancer Study Results Could Translate Into A Minimally Invasive Early Detection Method
4/25/2013
Pioneering biophotonics technology developed at Northwestern University is the first screening method to detect the early presence of ovarian cancer in humans by examining cells easily brushed from the neighboring cervix or uterus, not the ovaries themselves...
Primary Care Provider Density Affects Lung Cancer Mortality Rates
4/25/2013
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is tied as the third leading cause of death overall in industrialized countries. Within the United States, several groups identified by race, sex, and socioeconomic status have been linked to increased cancer mortality, suggesting a disparity because of these characteristics...
Using Microbubbles To Improve Cancer Therapy
4/25/2013
Microbubbles decrease the time and acoustic power of ultrasound required to heat and destroy an embedded target, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound. If these results can be replicated in the clinic, microbubbles could improve the efficiency of high intensity ultrasound treatment of solid tumors...
Angiogenesis Inhibitors Originally Conceived For Cancer Could Hold Promise For Weight Loss
4/25/2013
Researchers have long known that cancerous tumors grow collections of abnormal blood cells, the fuel that feeds this disease and keeps it growing. Now, new evidence in an animal model suggests that blood vessels in the fat tissue of obese individuals could provide the same purpose - and could provide the key to a new way for people to lose weight. When researchers Jian-Wei Gu, Kristina L...
3D Breast Screenings Make Detection Easier & Decrease False Positives
4/25/2013
3D mammograms could provide significant improvements in cancer detection and decreasing false positives when used in collaboration regular 2D mammograms, according to a new study by a team of Italian and Australian researchers...
Risk Of Cancer Is 15% Higher In 9/11 Responders
4/24/2013
The risk of cancer is 15% higher in 9/11 responders compared to the general population not exposed to Ground Zero, according to a new study. The research was conducted by Mount Sinai Hospital's World Trade Center Health Program and was published in Environmental Health Perspectives. Almost 21,000 rescue and recovery workers who worked at Ground Zero were analyzed in the report...
The Link Between Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer And Indoor Tanning
4/24/2013
The widespread liking for sunbeds continues to place a huge amount of individuals at risk of developing non-melanoma skin cancer. Adding further concern to the link between sunbeds and non-melanoma cancer was a recent study carried out by the University of California, San Francisco...
Oral Mucositis Treatment, Gelclair®, Launched In US
4/24/2013
The Swiss pharmaceutical Helsinn Group, a leading player in the cancer supportive care arena, have announced that DARA BioSciences, Inc., a U.S. specialty pharmaceutical company focused on oncology and oncology supportive care products, has launched Gelclair(R)into the U.S. market...
Mammograms Reveal Response To Common Cancer Drug
4/24/2013
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a method for assessing the effect of tamoxifen, a common drug to prevent the relapse of breast cancer. The key lies in monitoring changes in the proportion of dense tissue, which appears white on a mammogram, during treatment...