Potent Growth Factor Identified For Blood Stem Cells
10/25/2012
Duke Medicine researchers studying the interaction of blood stem cells and the niche where they reside have identified a protein that may be a long-sought growth factor for blood stem cells. The protein is called pleiotrophin, and is produced by cells that line the blood vessels in bone marrow...
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...
Best Ways To Manage Lymphedema: Exercise And Complete Decongestive Therapy
10/24/2012
Nearly 40 percent of breast cancer survivors suffer from lymphedema, a chronic condition that causes body limbs to swell from fluid buildup, as a result of lymph node removal and radiation therapy. A cure for lymphedema does not exist, so individuals with the condition must find ways to manage the symptoms throughout their lifetimes...
In Atrial Fibrillation Patients On Rivaroxaban, More GI Bleeding Seen Than With Warfarin
10/24/2012
Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) experienced more major and non-major clinically relevant GI bleeding when taking rivaroxaban than patients taking warfarin...
Experimental Treatment In Pediatric Patient Resolves Life-Threatening GI Bleeding Crisis
10/24/2012
The number of patients dying from upper gastrointestinal bleeding has decreased over the past two decades, a result researchers attribute to the advances in medical and endoscopic therapies introduced over the past 20 years, according to a report unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas...
Discovery May Help Doctors Slow Progression And Recurrence Of Brain Cancer
10/24/2012
Scientists have long believed that glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive type of primary brain tumor, begins in glial cells that make up supportive tissue in the brain or in neural stem cells...