Lung Cancer Screening For Heavy Smokers Recommended
1/13/2013
People who have smoked at least a pack-a-day for thirty years should undergo lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society announced today in its lung cancer screening guidelines...
Patient Survival In Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Predicted By Epigenomic Abnormalities
1/13/2013
Think of the epigenome like a giant musical mixing board, turning up or down the expression of various genes. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal PLOS Genetics shows that in cancer, not only can genes themselves go bad, but abnormal changes in the epigenetic mixing board can unfortunately change the expression of these genes...
Brain Surgeons May Soon Be Using New Tool That Analyzes Cancer During Surgery
1/13/2013
A new tool that could allow for faster, more comprehensive testing of brain tissue during surgery successfully identified the cancer type, grade and tumor margins in five brain surgery patients, according to a Purdue University and Brigham and Women's Hospital study...
Lung Cancer Screening For Heavy Smokers Recommended
1/12/2013
People who have smoked at least a pack-a-day for thirty years should undergo lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society announced today in its lung cancer screening guidelines...
Mechanism Determined Of One Of The Most Powerful Tumor-Suppressor Proteins, Chd5
1/12/2013
A team of cancer researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has solved the mystery of how one of the most powerful of the body's natural tumor-suppressing proteins, called Chd5, exerts its beneficial effects. The findings, published online in the journal Cell Reports, are important because Chd5 engages processes fundamental to cancer prevention...
3D Imaging Increases Breast Cancer Detection
1/12/2013
Three-dimensional mammography combined with conventional breast imaging can increase breast cancer detection by 27%. The finding came from a team of experts at the University of Olso in Norway and was published in the journal Radiology. The researchers found that the detection rate for invasive and in situ cancers combined was 6...
Prostate Cancer Progression May Be Prevented By A High Fiber Diet
1/11/2013
A high-fiber diet may have the clinical potential to control the progression of prostate cancer in patients diagnosed in early stages of the disease. The rate of prostate cancer occurrence in Asian cultures is similar to the rate in Western cultures, but in the West, prostate cancer tends to progress, whereas in Asian cultures it does not...
Researchers Find Smaller Radiation Fields Can Spare Brain When Treating Tumors
1/11/2013
New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that patients suffering from aggressive brain tumors can be effectively treated with smaller radiation fields to spare the rest of the brain and preserve cognition...
Researchers in California and Switzerland have discovered that melanomas that develop resistance to the anti-cancer drug vemurafenib (marketed as Zelboraf), also develop addiction to the drug, an observation that may have important implications for the lives of patients with late-stage disease...
Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer If They Use Beta-Blockers While Receiving Radiotherapy
1/11/2013
Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer survive longer if they are taking beta-blockers while receiving radiotherapy, according to a study of 722 patients published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology [1]...