A Tool That Could Simply And Accurately Determine The Right Dose For Oncology
3/05/2013
King Mithridates understood that poison is only as good as the dosage taken. Each day, he ingested small quantities of poison in order to become immune and escape his court's plotters. Oncologists run up against the same principle when fighting cancer. Sometimes, a small dose of chemotherapy may induce dangerous resistance mechanisms in malignant cells, resulting in relapse...
Common Cancer Vaccine Ingredient Diverts T Cells From Tumors
3/05/2013
Cancer vaccines that attempt to stimulate an immune system assault fail because the killer T cells aimed at tumors instead find the vaccination site a more inviting target, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in Nature Medicine...
Concerns Raised That The 'Shelf Life' Of Blood May Be Shorter Than We Think
3/05/2013
A small study from Johns Hopkins adds to the growing body of evidence that red blood cells stored longer than three weeks begin to lose the capacity to deliver oxygen-rich cells where they may be most needed...
Obesity Gene Linked To Skin Cancer
3/05/2013
A gene associated with obesity and overeating is also linked to the most fatal skin cancer, malignant melanoma. The finding came from a new study conducted by Cancer Research UK experts at the University of Leeds, England, and was published in Nature Genetics...
Conditions Created By Tumors To Inhibit Body's Best Immune Response
3/05/2013
New research in the Journal of Clinical Investigation reveals that tumours in melanoma patients deliberately create conditions that knock out the body's 'premier' immune defence and instead attract a weaker immune response unable to kill off the tumour's cancerous cells...
Averting Graft-Versus-Host Disease In Patients With Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma
3/05/2013
Bone marrow transplant is a key treatment for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and other blood disorders...
Safety Of Colonoscopy Confirmed By Study
3/05/2013
Colon cancer develops slowly. Precancerous lesions usually need many years to turn into a dangerous carcinoma. They are well detectable in an endoscopic examination of the colon called colonoscopy and can be removed during the same examination. Therefore, regular screening can prevent colon cancer much better than other types of cancer...
Where You're Treated Matters, Especially For Older Patients With Head And Neck Cancers
3/05/2013
A study of older patients with advanced head and neck cancers has found that where they were treated significantly influenced their survival...
A study led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has identified epigenetic mechanisms that connect a variety of diseases associated with inflammation...
Role Of Malignant Brain Tumor Domains Investigated By New Chemical Probe
3/05/2013
In an article published as the cover story of the March 2013 issue of Nature Chemical Biology, Lindsey James, PhD, research assistant professor in the lab of Stephen Frye, Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor in the UNC School of Pharmacy and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, announced the discovery of a chemical probe that can be used to investigate th...