Researchers Report Potential New Treatment For Some Types Of Colon And Gastric Cancers
1/21/2013
Researchers have identified a complex of proteins that promotes the growth of some types of colon and gastric cancers, and shown that medications that block the function of this complex have the potential to be developed into a new treatment for these diseases...
Regulating The Cellular Message To Make Histone Proteins - A Molecular Twist
1/21/2013
Histone proteins are the proteins that package DNA into chromosomes. Every time the cell replicates its DNA it must make large amounts of newly made histones to organize DNA within the nucleus...
Effectively Treating Colorectal Cancer With Grape Seed Extract, Even As Cancer Gets More Aggressive
1/20/2013
When the going gets tough, grape seed extract gets going: A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Letters shows that the more advanced are colorectal cancer cells, the more GSE inhibits their growth and survival. On the other end of the disease spectrum, GSE leaves healthy cells alone entirely...
Response To Chemotherapy For Colorectal Cancer May Be Predicted By New Model
1/19/2013
Scientists may be able to better predict which patients with colorectal cancer will respond to chemotherapy using a new mathematical model that measures the amount of stress required for a cancer cell to die without harming healthy tissue. The results of this study are published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
From Its Peak In 1991, Cancer Mortality Down 20 Percent
1/19/2013
As of 2009, the overall death rate for cancer in the United States had declined 20 percent from its peak in 1991, translating to the avoidance of approximately 1.2 million deaths from cancer, 152,900 of these in 2009 alone. These figures come from the American Cancer Society's annual Cancer Statistics report, one of the most widely-cited medical publications in the world...
Preliminary Findings Suggest New Biomarker For Gliomas May Play An Important Diagnostic Role
1/19/2013
Researchers using sophisticated genetic testing techniques have identified a promising new biomarker for diagnosis of glioma - the most common type of malignant brain tumor, reports the January issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
New Method To Diagnose Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer
1/19/2013
Researchers of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have developed and validated a new method to diagnose hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome based on mass sequencing of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The model is based on a genetic and bioinformatic analysis which has proved very effective...
New Method To Diagnose Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer
1/19/2013
Researchers of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have developed and validated a new method to diagnose hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome based on mass sequencing of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The model is based on a genetic and bioinformatic analysis which has proved very effective...
Life-Saving Melanoma Treatment Delayed When Smartphone Apps Get Diagnosis Wrong
1/18/2013
Smartphone apps where you can upload photos of skin lesions and have them analyzed for likelihood of cancer can get it wrong an alarming number of times. This is the finding of a new US study whose authors warn that users who rely on such assessments instead of going to the doctor with their concerns could be delaying a correct diagnosis of melanoma and timely, life-saving treatment...
Life-Saving Melanoma Treatment Delayed When Smartphone Apps Get Diagnosis Wrong
1/18/2013
Smartphone apps where you can upload photos of skin lesions and have them analyzed for likelihood of cancer can get it wrong an alarming number of times. This is the finding of a new US study whose authors warn that users who rely on such assessments instead of going to the doctor with their concerns could be delaying a correct diagnosis of melanoma and timely, life-saving treatment...