Probe That Checks For Cancer On The Margin During Breast Lumpectomy Gets FDA Approval
1/03/2013
A probe that allows surgeons removing cancerous tissue during breast "lumpectomy" to check if the margins of the removed tissue are clear of cancer cells, has received Premarket Approval (PMA) in the US from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Improved Understanding Of Cell Polarity Could Lead To Improved Cancer Diagnoses
1/03/2013
Scientists at The University of Manchester have identified how cells know which way up they need to be. The discovery could help in the fight against cancer because in the early stages of the disease the cells become disorganised...
New Light Shed On Mechanisms Of T-ALL, A Form Of Leukemia That Primarily Affects Children
1/03/2013
Acute lymphatic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer in children under the age of 14 years. With optimum treatment, approximately 75 % of children are currently cured, but the treatment consists of severe chemotherapy with many side effects...
Treatment And Survival In Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Could Improve With New Markers
1/03/2013
In her PhD thesis, Elixabet Lopez, a researcher at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, presents various genetic markers to classify risk groups and predict treatment toxicity. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the most common paediatric cancer, has been the subject of study in the PhD thesis of Elixabet López...
Why And How Patients With Lung Cancer Initially Get Diagnosed With The Disease
1/03/2013
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are looking into the widespread implementation of computed-tomography (CT) scanning for the early detection of lung cancer in a public heath setting, asking two key questions: Without screening, why and how do patients with lung cancer get diagnosed with the disease in the first place? And what proportion of these cases would be captu...
Three New Genetic Links To Colorectal Cancer
1/03/2013
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have identified three new genetic "hotspots" linked to colorectal cancer. These variants, reported in an Advanced Online Publication in Nature Genetics, provide new insight into the biology of colorectal cancer - and could represent new therapeutic targets for the disease...
Novel Approach To Identifying Cancer Targets
1/03/2013
A new online way of quickly prioritizing the best druggable cancer targets has successfully identified 46 previously overlooked targets. The research, funded by Cancer Research UK, was published in the journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. The online approach used the canSAR database along with a tool that is able to compare up to 500 drug targets within minutes...
Excessive Protein Synthesis Linked To Autistic-Like Behaviors
1/03/2013
Autistic-like behaviors can be partially remedied by normalizing excessive levels of protein synthesis in the brain, a team of researchers has found in a study of laboratory mice...
In Tumor Disorder There Are Many Causes For Learning Lags
1/03/2013
The causes of learning problems associated with an inherited brain tumor disorder are much more complex than scientists had anticipated, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report. The disorder, neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), is among the most common inherited pediatric brain cancer syndromes...
Overexpression Of MiR-205 In Transformed Cells Can Lead To Breast Cancer
1/03/2013
Over the past couple of years research into miRNAs has become increasingly diversified and attracted a great number of research articles across genetics and medicine...