More Nurses Needed To Cope With UK's Biggest Cancer Killer
1/29/2013
There are not enough specialist nurses to cope with the demands of the UK's biggest cancer killer, according to a new report. More than 40,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer every year with fewer than one in 10 likely to survive beyond five years. However, despite the poor outcomes for the disease, experts fear that specialist nurse posts may be cut as part of NHS cutbacks...
Stress May Increase Risk For Prostate Cancer
1/29/2013
Prostate cancer patients have increased levels of stress and anxiety; however, several recent studies have found that men who take drugs that interfere with the stress hormone adrenaline have a lower incidence of prostate cancer...
Discovery Of Alterations In Telomerase Gene Could Lead To Treatment For Malignant Melanoma
1/29/2013
About ten percent of all cases of malignant melanoma are familial cases. The genome of affected families tells scientists a lot about how the disease develops. Prof. Dr. Rajiv Kumar of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) together with Prof. Dr...
Reducing The Level Of Mutant P53 Gene Increases Susceptibility To Cancer Treatment
1/29/2013
Scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) have discovered the workings of the gene that has been hindering treatment response in cancer patients. This discovery was made after 5 years of studying the mutant form of the p53 gene, the major tumor suppressor in humans, which is generally found mutated in over 50% of all type of human cancers...
Acidity Engineered By Tumor Cells To Drive Cell Invasion
1/29/2013
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at Wayne State University School of Medicine investigated the acidity in solid tumors to determine if pH levels play a role in cancer cell invasion in surrounding tissues...
Breast Cancer Metastasis Stopped In Mouse Model Of Breast Cancer
1/29/2013
The spread of breast cancer to distant organs within the body, an event that often leads to death, appears in many cases to involve the loss of a key protein, according to UC San Francisco researchers, whose new discoveries point to possible targets for therapy...
In recent years, it has been thought that select sets of genes might reveal cancer patients' prognoses. However, a study published last year examining breast cancer cases found that most of these "prognostic signatures" were no more accurate than random gene sets in determining cancer prognoses...
Qigong Found To Improve Quality Of Life For Breast Cancer Patients
1/29/2013
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found qigong, an ancient mind-body practice, reduces depressive symptoms and improves quality of life in women undergoing radiotherapy for breast cancer...
Abuse May Affect Cancer-Related Well-Being In Female Patients: UK Study
1/29/2013
A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows evidence that certain forms of abuse negatively influence women cancer patients' quality of life...
Low Vitamin D Levels Linked To High Risk Of Premenopausal Breast Cancer
1/29/2013
A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of premenopausal breast cancer...