Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Could Cure Human Cancers With No Side Effects
4/05/2013
Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The scientific crusade against cancer recently achieved a victory under the leadership of University of Missouri Curators' Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne...
Taking a break from hormone-blocking prostate cancer treatments once the cancer seems to be stabilized is not equivalent to continuing therapy, a new large-scale international study finds...
Cancer Cells Resistant To Cisplatin Are Sensitive To Experimental Anticancer Drugs, PARP Inhibitors
4/05/2013
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors may be a novel treatment strategy for patients with cancer that has become resistant to the commonly used chemotherapy drug cisplatin, according to data from a preclinical study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
New System Improving Understanding Of The Fundamental Genetic Principles Of Metastasis
4/05/2013
A new system for isolating rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) - living solid tumor cells found at low levels in the bloodstream - shows significant improvement over previously developed devices and does not require prior identification of tumor-specific target molecules...
Stillbirth Or Pre-Term Birth Outcomes Linked To Elevated Risk Of Blood Clots After Pregnancy
4/04/2013
Newly identified pregnancy-related events, such as stillbirth or pre-term birth, may dramatically increase a woman's risk of developing a potentially deadly blood clot immediately after pregnancy, according to the results of a large, population-based study published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH)...
Prostate cancer doesn't kill in the prostate - it's only once the disease travels to bone, lung, liver, etc. that it turns fatal. Previous studies have shown that loss of the protein E-Cadherin is essential for this metastasis...
New Diagnostic Technology May Lead To Individualized Treatments For Prostate Cancer
4/04/2013
NanoVelcro Chip device captures and isolates potentially high-risk cancer cells A research team jointly led by scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California, Los Angeles, have enhanced a device they developed to identify and "grab" circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, that break away from cancers and enter the blood, often leading to the spread of c...
In Mouse Model, Fatty Acid Metabolite Shows Promise Against Cancer
4/04/2013
A team of UC Davis scientists has found that a product resulting from a metabolized omega-3 fatty acid helps combat cancer by cutting off the supply of oxygen and nutrients that fuel tumor growth and spread of the disease. The scientists report their discovery in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...
Specialized Telerobotic System Designed To Treat Bladder Cancer
4/04/2013
Although bladder cancer is the sixth most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the most expensive to treat, the basic method that doctors use to treat it hasn't changed much in more than 70 years. An interdisciplinary collaboration of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities intends to change that situation dramatically...
Charity Warns 6,500 Bowel Cancer Patients Will Lose Out On Vital Medicines
4/04/2013
As many as 6,500 (6,427(1)) new patients a year in England could be denied access to life-extending medicines when the Government's special Cancer Drugs Fund comes to an end at the beginning of next year, according to new research by the charity Beating Bowel Cancer...