Complete Remission Induced By Dendritic Cell Vaccine For Relapsed Neuroblastoma Patient
1/31/2013
One year after his last treatment, a six-year-old boy with recurrent neuroblastoma is in complete remission for his high-risk metastatic cancer...
Iron-Enriched Potatoes Could Help Tackle Anaemia, Nanoscientists' Study Suggests
1/31/2013
The humble potato could hold the answer to tackling the common condition iron deficiency anaemia, scientists believe. Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have been successful in developing a novel - and natural - way of enriching potatoes with iron by engineering 'nano-rust' particles, which can be broken down into regular iron and absorbed by the crop...
HIV Patients At Two-Fold Higher Risk For Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers
1/31/2013
HIV-positive patients have a higher incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in the current online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Specifically, basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas occur more than twice as often among HIV-positive individuals compared to those who are HIV-negative...
Polluted Indoor Air Puts Female Chinese Nonsmokers At Risk
1/31/2013
The hazards of breathing outdoor air in some Chinese cities have been well-documented. Now a University at Buffalo study confirms that breathing indoor air also carries significant cancer risks, especially for Chinese women...
Metabolism-Based Cancer Therapy May Be Useful For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
1/31/2013
Ever since discovering a decade ago that a gene altered in lung cancer regulated an enzyme used in therapies against diabetes, Reuben Shaw has wondered if drugs originally designed to treat metabolic diseases could also work against cancer...
RNA Interference Reveals Gene That Turns Up Effect Of Chemotherapy
1/31/2013
Chemotherapy is one of the most common treatments for cancer patients. However, many patients suffer from serious side-effects and a large proportion do not respond to the treatment. Researchers from the Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) and Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, now show that the gene FBH1 helps turn up the effect of chemotherapy...
Head And Neck Cancers: Common Genetic Alteration May Not Be Key To Effective Treatment
1/31/2013
Although a large majority of head and neck cancers have a deregulation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, data recently published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, indicated that deregulation of this pathway does not necessarily signify that the tumor is dependent on it for survival and progression...
Late Diagnosis Of Cancer Symptoms More Likely In UK Due To Worry And Embarrassment
1/31/2013
Embarrassment and not wanting to waste their doctors' time are more frequently reported by British people than in other countries, according to new research led jointly by King's College London and UCL (University College London). This may be holding British people back from presenting early with symptoms of cancer...
Women With BRCA Gene More Likely To Experience Early Menopause
1/31/2013
Women with harmful mutations in the BRCA gene, which put them at higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, tend to undergo menopause significantly sooner than other women, allowing them an even briefer reproductive window and possibly a higher risk of infertility, according to a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco...
Women With BRCA Gene More Likely To Experience Early Menopause
1/31/2013
Women with harmful mutations in the BRCA gene, which put them at higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, tend to undergo menopause significantly sooner than other women, allowing them an even briefer reproductive window and possibly a higher risk of infertility, according to a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco...