A peer-reviewed study of the largest number of flame retardants ever tested in homes found that most houses had levels of at least one flame retardant that exceeded a federal health guideline. The journal Environmental Science & Technology published the study online...
Advances And Challenges In Improving The Quality Of Cancer Care
11/30/2012
New studies reveal important advances in cancer care quality measurement, physician adherence to quality standards, and end-of-life care, while highlighting the overuse of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy. The studies were released in a presscast in advance of ASCO's inaugural 2012 Quality Care Symposium...
Study Points To Potential New Therapies For Cancer And Other Diseases
11/29/2012
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TRSI) are fueling the future of cancer treatment by improving a powerful tool in disease defense: the body's immune system. By revealing a novel but widespread cell signaling process, the scientists may have found a way to manipulate an important component of the immune system into more effectively fighting disease...
Undescended Testicles At Birth Raises Testicular Cancer Risk
11/29/2012
Males with a condition known as cryptorchidism, when their testes have not descended at birth, are three times more likely to develop testicular cancer later on in life as adults, according to a recent analysis published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood...
New Hope For Setback-Dogged Cancer Treatment
11/29/2012
Several drugs companies have ineffectively tried to produce antibodies that bind to the IGF-1 receptor on the cell surface, which has a critical part to play in the development of cancer. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now ascertained how these antibodies work, and can explain why only some cancer patients are helped by IGF-1 blockers during clinical tests...
Discovery Of New Mechanism For Cancer Progression
11/29/2012
The protein Ras plays an important role in cellular growth control. Researchers have focused on the protein because mutations in its gene are found in more than 30 percent of all cancers, making it the most prevalent human oncogene...
Vitamin D Proven To Help Combat Breast Cancer
11/29/2012
Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer affecting women worldwide. Although the chances of recovery are around 90%, this only applies if the cancer is detected early. Surgery, chemotherapy, hair loss or even a mastectomy - women suffering from breast cancer have to contend with all of these possible consequences. There is therefore virtually no other illness which frightens women more...
Fear Of Cancer Return Often Responsible For Women Opting For A Double Mastectomy
11/29/2012
About 70 percent of women who have both breasts removed following a breast cancer diagnosis do so despite a very low risk of facing cancer in the healthy breast, new research from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds...
Combined RB And PTEN Loss Identifies DCIS Primed For Invasive Breast Cancer
11/28/2012
The combined loss of two tumor suppressor genes, retinoblastoma (RB) and phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) was shown to be strongly associated with progression of DCIS to invasive breast cancer, according to a study published November 28 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
Scientists Find Evidence For "Chemo Brain" In Scans
11/28/2012
Using brain scans, scientists in the US have uncovered physiological evidence for "chemo brain", a common and often debilitating side effect of cancer chemotherapy treatment that patients often describe as a "mental fog"...