How Patterns, Timing Of Sunlight Exposure Contribute To Skin Cancers
10/25/2012
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, the University of South Florida and the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France have studied the patterns and timing of sunlight exposure and how each is related to two nonmelanoma skin cancers - basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma...
Scientists Harness Immune System To Prevent Lymphoma Relapse
10/25/2012
UK scientists hope that lymphoma patients could benefit from a new drug that triggers the cancer-fighting properties of the body's own immune system, after highly promising early laboratory results...
Survival of patients treated with SIR-Spheres more than double that of patients who received best supportive care, benefit rivals that found with new biological agents, authors note...
Moderate Alcohol Consumption And Breast Cancer - A Complex Association
10/25/2012
An excellent review article from two scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the USA to be published in Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2012, describes the epidemiologic and basic scientific evidence linking alcohol consumption to the risk of breast cancer...
Telomere Length In Blood Cells Could Lead To Test For Pancreatic Cancer
10/25/2012
A new study shows that a blood marker is linked to pancreatic cancer, according to a study published by scientists at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and Mayo Clinic. First author Dr...
In Metastatic Prostate Cancer, A Noninvasive Assay Monitored Treatment Response
10/25/2012
Deciding the ideal treatment for patients with metastatic prostate cancer that stops responding to initial therapy could be guided by certain analyses of cancer cells isolated from the patients' blood, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Decrease In Colorectal Cancer Rates May Be Due To Increased Use Of Colonoscopy Screening
10/25/2012
Use of colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening could explain a significant decrease in the cancer's incidence over the past decade, according to a new study from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine...
Determining Which Bowel Cancer Patients Will Benefit From Avastin
10/25/2012
Avastin, or Bevacizumab, has been shown to increase survival from bowel cancer in around ten to 15 per cent of patients, but it has been impossible to predict who will benefit. Avastin works by targeting and blocking the VEGF-A protein, two major forms of which are VEGF165 and VEGF165b...
Genetic Changes Plus "Tumorous Environment" Enable Breast Cancer Cells To Spread
10/25/2012
A new study from Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that the lethal spread of breast cancer is as dependent on a tumor's protein-rich environment as on genetic changes inside tumor cells...
Breast Density And Cancer Risk: Gene Polymorphisms Identified
10/25/2012
It has long been known that breast density, or mammographic density, is a strong risk factor for breast cancer, and that estrogen and progestin hormone therapy increases dense breast tissue...