Drug Shortages Erode The Quality And Increase The Cost Of Cancer Care
3/25/2013
A national survey of health professionals showed that drug shortages are taking a heavy toll on cancer patients, forcing treatment changes and delays that for some patients meant worse outcomes, more therapy-related complications and higher costs. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators played an important role in the study...
Young, Black, Female Breast Cancer Patients Need Genetic Risk Strategies
3/25/2013
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues in Canada have published study results focused on black women younger than 50, a population disproportionately afflicted with and dying from early-onset breast cancer compared to their white counterparts. The research published in The Breast Journal. Early-onset breast cancer has been associated with mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes...
Risk Factors In Prostate Cancer: Genetics, Age And Ethnicity
3/25/2013
"Are there genetic risk factors for PCa? Yes, and BRCA2 and HOXB13 are useful for predicting high-risk disease," said Jack Cuzick (GB) president of the International Society for Cancer Prevention (ISCaP), referring to the two genes implicated in high-risk prostate disease...
Immunotherapeutic Approach To Melanoma Treatment Shows Promise
3/25/2013
Scientists have characterized how the functionality of genetically engineered T cells administered therapeutically to patients with melanoma changed over time...
High Vitamin D Helps Healthy People Stay That Way
3/25/2013
Healthy people with higher vitamin D levels in their blood may enjoy several benefits, apart from improved bone health, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine reported in PLOS ONE...
Genetic Alterations Linked With Bladder Cancer Risk, Recurrence, Progression, And Patient Survival
3/25/2013
A new analysis has found that genetic alterations in a particular cellular pathway are linked with bladder cancer risk, recurrence, disease progression, and patient survival. Published early online in CANCER, a peer- reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings could help improve bladder cancer screening and treatment...
Expanding Blood Stem Cells For Bone Marrow Transplant - New Method Developed
3/25/2013
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College believe they have solved how to expand adult hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) outside the human body for medical use in bone marrow transplantation - a vital step towards being able to produce enough stem cells required to re-establish a healthy blood system...
Novel Method Points To New Blood Tests For Conditions From Autoimmune Diseases To Alzheimer's
3/25/2013
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in Jupiter, FL, have developed cutting-edge technology that can successfully screen human blood for disease markers. This tool may hold the key to better diagnosing and understanding today's most pressing and puzzling health conditions, including autoimmune diseases...
Radiation Oncologists Study 'Toxicity Map' Of Brain To Help Protect Cognition For Cancer Patients
3/23/2013
New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is giving radiation oncologists who treat brain tumors a better understanding of how to preserve the brain's functions while still killing cancer. Ann M. Peiffer, Ph.D...
Better Cancer Detection, More Accurate Staging With New Imaging Agent
3/23/2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a new imaging dye, designed and developed at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, is an effective agent in detecting and mapping cancers that have reached the lymph nodes...