Mortality Reduced In Elderly Female Cancer Survivors By Adherence To Lifestyle Guidelines
10/19/2012
Achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight, staying physically active and maintaining a healthy diet improved survival after cancer diagnosis in an elderly female cancer survivor population, according to data presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, being held Oct. 16-19, 2012...
New Disease Subtypes Of Stomach Cancer Revealed Through Epigenetic Analysis
10/19/2012
Researchers at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have identified numerous new subtypes of gastric cancer that are triggered by environmental factors. Reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the findings are based on the science of epigenetics, a study of gene activity...
Cost-Effective Treatment For Early Endometrial Cancer Could Be Common Birth Control Device
10/19/2012
A common birth control device is effective in treating early-stage endometrial cancer in morbidly obese and high-risk surgery patients, said Georgia Health Sciences University Cancer Center researchers, and could lead to a cost-effective treatment for all women with this cancer type...
Findings On Cold Virus Proteins May Spur New Cancer Treatments
10/19/2012
Cold viruses generally get a bad rap - which they've certainly earned - but new findings by a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies suggest that these viruses might also be a valuable ally in the fight against cancer...
Treating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer With Vegetable-Derived Compound
10/19/2012
A new compound created from a rich source in vegetables including broccoli and brussel sprouts has been developed to combat triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). This research was presented at the 2012 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition, the world's largest pharmaceutical sciences meeting, in Chicago, Ill., during Breast Cancer Awareness Month...
In what they say is a promising and highly selective treatment strategy, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have safely shut down breast cancer and a form of leukemia in mice by targeting abnormal proteins to which the cancers are "addicted," according to a new study...
Urine Stream Shape May Help Diagnose Prostate Problems
10/18/2012
New research from the UK suggests that the shape of a man's urine stream may help diagnose prostate and urinary problems. The researchers hope their findings will lead to a solution that helps male patients monitor their urine flow rate, an important diagnostic measure, more easily at home...
Urine Stream Shape May Help Diagnose Prostate Problems
10/18/2012
New research from the UK suggests that the shape of a man's urine stream may help diagnose prostate and urinary problems. The researchers hope their findings will lead to a solution that helps male patients monitor their urine flow rate, an important diagnostic measure, more easily at home...
Multivitamins May Cut Cancer Risk In Men
10/18/2012
Middle-aged and older men who regularly take multivitamins were found to have an 8% lower risk of developing cancer, compared to other men of the same age who took no multivitamins, researchers from Harvard Medical school wrote in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). The authors carried out a randomized trial involving 15,000 male doctors...
An Epigenetic Difference In Twins Could Explain The Different Risk Of Breast Cancer
10/18/2012
Monozygotic twins have the same genome, that is, the same DNA molecule in both siblings. Despite being genetically identical, both twins may have different diseases at different times. This phenomenon is called "twin discordance"...