Breakthrough Chemo Bath Treatment For Liver Cancer
11/13/2012
A treatment that isolates the blood supply to a cancerous liver while the organ receives a "chemo bath" has been used for the first time in the UK. The procedure saturates the liver with high doses of chemotherapy without affecting the rest of the body...
Resveratrol, a compound found commonly in grape skins and red wine, has been shown to have several beneficial effects on human health, including cardiovascular health and stroke prevention...
Black Patients With Kidney Cancer Have Poorer Survival Than Whites
11/13/2012
Among patients with the most common form of kidney cancer, whites consistently have a survival advantage over blacks, regardless of patient and tumor characteristics or surgical treatment. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society...
Researchers Identify Novel Metabolic Programs Driving Aggressive Brain Tumors
11/13/2012
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have identified metabolic signatures that may pave the way for personalized therapy in glioma, a type of tumor that starts in the brain. The study appears online in Cancer Research, a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Discovery Of New Mechanism Of Action For PARP Inhibitors
11/13/2012
New understanding of how drugs called PARP inhibitors, which have already shown promise for the treatment of women with familial breast and ovarian cancers linked to BRCA mutations, exert their anticancer effects has led to the identification of ways in which the patient population that might benefit from PARP inhibitors could be expanded. Yves Pommier, M.D., Ph.D...
Improved Survival In Breast Cancer For Women With High-Quality Personal Relationships
11/13/2012
The quality of a woman's social networks - the personal relationships that surround an individual - appears to be just as important as the size of her networks in predicting breast cancer survival, Kaiser Permanente scientists report in the current issue of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment...
Discovery Of New Mechanism Of Action For PARP Inhibitors
11/13/2012
New understanding of how drugs called PARP inhibitors, which have already shown promise for the treatment of women with familial breast and ovarian cancers linked to BRCA mutations, exert their anticancer effects has led to the identification of ways in which the patient population that might benefit from PARP inhibitors could be expanded. Yves Pommier, M.D., Ph.D...
New Studies Shed Light On What It Cost To Vaccinate Girls Against HPV In Low Income Countries
11/12/2012
Two studies published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine examined the cost of delivering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to primary school girls in Tanzania...
New Studies Shed Light On What It Cost To Vaccinate Girls Against HPV In Low Income Countries
11/12/2012
Two studies published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine examined the cost of delivering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to primary school girls in Tanzania...
Breakthrough Chemo Bath Treats Liver Cancer For First Time In UK
11/12/2012
A treatment that isolates the blood supply to a cancerous liver while the organ receives a "chemo bath" has been used for the first time in the UK. The procedure saturates the liver with high doses of chemotherapy without affecting the rest of the body...