The Key To Personalized Treatment For Common Brain Tumors Lies In Their Genetic Landscape
1/28/2013
Nearly the entire genetic landscape of the most common form of brain tumor can be explained by abnormalities in just five genes, an international team of researchers led by Yale School of Medicine scientists report online in the journal Science...
The Secrets Of Tumor Growth
1/28/2013
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Healthy Ageing have identified a compound that blocks the expression of a protein without which certain tumours cannot grow. This compound has the potential as an anticancer agent according to the research published in the journal CHBIOL: Chemistry and Biology this week...
A Link Between Tissue Scarring And Cancer Metastasis
1/28/2013
What to fear most if faced by a cancer diagnosis is the spread of the cancer to other parts of the body. This process called metastasis accounts for over 90% of cancer patient deaths and therefore is a strong focus for cancer researchers...
Better Survival Rates Seen With Lumpectomy Compared With Mastectomy For Early Breast Cancer
1/28/2013
A new analysis has found that lumpectomy plus radiation for early breast cancer may provide patients with a better chance of survival than mastectomy. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results provide confidence in the efficacy of breast-conserving treatments even among patients with aggressive, early disease...
Multiple Myeloma Patients May Benefit From New Research
1/27/2013
A study led by Robert G. Hawley, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of anatomy and regenerative biology at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), may help predict which patients with multiple myeloma will respond better to certain treatments...
Hospitals More Likely To Be Able To Fight Infections When They Plan For Bacteria In Cancer Patients
1/27/2013
What cancerous conditions lead to what kinds of bacterial infections? If doctors knew, they could predict which patients would likely benefit from pre-treatment with certain kinds of antibiotics. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in this month's issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases shows the answer: E...
SNPs Associated With Breast Cancer Risk Alter Binding Affinity For Pioneer Factor FOXA1
1/27/2013
Dartmouth scientists showed that more than half of all the SNPs associated with breast cancer risk are located in distant regions and bound by FOXA1, a protein required for estrogen receptor-α (ER) function according to a paper published in the journal Nature Genetics...
Hospitals More Likely To Be Able To Fight Infections When They Plan For Bacteria In Cancer Patients
1/27/2013
What cancerous conditions lead to what kinds of bacterial infections? If doctors knew, they could predict which patients would likely benefit from pre-treatment with certain kinds of antibiotics. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in this month's issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases shows the answer: E...
Consistent Personal Epigenetic 'Signatures' Discovered In Prostate Cancer Patients' Metastases
1/26/2013
In a genome-wide analysis of 13 metastatic prostate cancers, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found consistent epigenetic "signatures" across all metastatic tumors in each patient...
Association Between Blood Calcium And Ovarian Cancer Could Lead To Diagnostic Test
1/26/2013
A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is the first to report that high blood calcium levels might predict ovarian cancer, the most fatal of the gynecologic cancers. Lead author Gary G. Schwartz, Ph.D., a cancer epidemiologist at Wake Forest Baptist, and colleague, Halcyon G. Skinner, Ph.D...