Why Do Sunbed Users Love Tanning So Much?
10/16/2012
Despite the alarming risks that are associated with tanning, including skin cancer, people are still not backing away from sunbeds due to motivational factors, such as attractiveness and relaxation. Previous Research, also from October of this year, estimated a total of 170,000 cases of skin cancer in America that were caused by indoor tanning...
For Low-Risk Prostate Cancer, Surgery Or Radiation, Not Monitoring, Most Often Sought
10/16/2012
Few physicians recommend active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer rather than pursuing surgery or radiation, according to a Mayo Clinic study presented at the North Central Section of the American Urological Association's annual meeting in Chicago. Mayo Clinic urologists also discussed findings on enlarged prostates, bladder cancer and other research...
HPV Vaccine Doesn't Increase Sexual Activity In Girls
10/15/2012
Girls who receive the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, do not become more sexually active, researchers from Kaiser Permanente reported in the journal Pediatrics. The authors added that the HPV vaccine is not associated with a higher incidence of STIs (sexually transmitted infections), contraceptive counseling, or pregnancy...
HPV Vaccine Doesn't Increase Sexual Activity In Girls
10/15/2012
Girls who receive the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, do not become more sexually active, researchers from Kaiser Permanente reported in the journal Pediatrics. The authors added that the HPV vaccine is not associated with a higher incidence of STIs (sexually transmitted infections), contraceptive counseling, or pregnancy...
Differences In Methylation Patterns May Offer Clues To Cancer Diagnosis
10/15/2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Devin Koestler is a biostatistician in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He develops and applies statistical methods to large volumes of data, seeking new approaches for understanding disease, cancer in particular...
Cancer, diabetes, and excess body weight have one thing in common: they alter cellular metabolism. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and the Medical University of Vienna together with an international research team have jointly resolved a new molecular circuit controlling cellular metabolism...
Computer Models Show That Shape Matters In DNA Nanoparticle Therapy
10/15/2012
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Northwestern universities have discovered how to control the shape of nanoparticles that move DNA through the body and have shown that the shapes of these carriers may make a big difference in how well they work in treating cancer and other diseases...
Differences In Methylation Patterns May Offer Clues To Cancer Diagnosis
10/15/2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Devin Koestler is a biostatistician in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He develops and applies statistical methods to large volumes of data, seeking new approaches for understanding disease, cancer in particular...
Researchers may soon be able to add yet another item to the list of exercise's well-documented health benefits: A preliminary study suggests that when cancer survivors exercise for several weeks after they finish chemotherapy, their immune systems remodel themselves to become more effective, potentially fending off future incidences of cancer...
Important Clues To Cancer Metastasis
10/15/2012
In recent years investigators have discovered that breast tumors are influenced by more than just the cancer cells within them. A variety of noncancerous cells, which in many cases constitute the majority of the tumor mass, form what is known as the "tumor microenvironment." This sea of noncancerous cells and the products they deposit appear to play key roles in tumor pathogenesis...