Link Between Higher Soy Intake Prior To Lung Cancer Diagnosis And Longer Survival In Women
3/27/2013
New results from a large observational follow-up study conducted in Shanghai, China, indicate that women with lung cancer who consumed more soy food prior to their cancer diagnosis lived longer than those who consumed less soy. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, provides the first scientific evidence that soy intake has a favorable effect on lung cancer survival...
Mathematical Probability Model Used To Predict How Lung Cancer Spreads
3/27/2013
The same sort of mathematical model used to predict which websites people are most apt to visit is now showing promise in helping map how lung cancer spreads in the human body, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer Research...
Researchers Decode Biology Of Blood And Iron Disorders Mapping Out Novel Future Therapies
3/27/2013
Control of Blood and Iron Disorders Affecting Patients Worldwide Centers on Regulating Iron and Blood Cell Production Two studies led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medical College shed light on the molecular biology of three blood disorders, leading to novel strategies to treat these diseases...
Two studies led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medical College shed light on the molecular biology of three blood disorders, leading to novel strategies to treat these diseases...
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Cells Destroyed By Monoclonal Antibody
3/27/2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center have identified a humanized monoclonal antibody that targets and directly kills chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells...
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida have developed a small molecule that inhibits STAT3, a protein that causes cancer. This development could impact the treatment of several tumor types, including breast, lung, prostate and others that depend on STAT3 for survival...
Rejuvenating Blood
3/27/2013
The blood of young and old people differs. In an article published recently in the scientific journal Blood, a research group at Lund University in Sweden explain how they have succeeded in rejuvenating the blood of mice by reversing, or re-programming, the stem cells that produce blood. Stem cells form the origin of all the cells in the body and can divide an unlimited number of times...
Measuring Oxygen In Individual Red Blood Cells In Real Time
3/27/2013
In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to use light and color to measure oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time. The technology, developed by Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K...
Novel T-Cell Therapy Eradicates An Aggressive Leukemia In 2 Children
3/26/2013
Two children with an aggressive form of childhood leukemia had a complete remission of their disease - showing no evidence of cancer cells in their bodies - after treatment with a novel cell therapy that reprogrammed their immune cells to rapidly multiply and destroy leukemia cells...
New DNA Test To Detect Mutations Across 46 Genes In NHS Patients With Solid Tumour (UK)
3/26/2013
The first multi-gene DNA sequencing test that can help predict cancer patients' responses to treatment has been launched in the National Health Service (NHS), thanks to a partnership between scientists at the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust...