Researchers Develop Interference Therapies To Knock Down Gene That Drives Mantle Cell Lymphoma
10/12/2012
Three thousand new cases of Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL), a form of blood cancer, appear in the United States each year. With a median survival span of only five to seven years, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, this disease is devastating, and new therapies are sorely needed...
Exercise Helps Immune System Protect Against Future Cancers
10/12/2012
After completing chemotherapy, cancer survivors who exercise for several weeks are helping their immune systems become more effective, which in turn, prevents cancer from developing in the future...
Incurable Blood Cancer Treatment Could Be In Sight
10/12/2012
One of the characteristics of Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) is the aggressive over-production of a cell-proliferation protein due to an overactive gene...
Some animal models developed by researchers at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Bellvitge (IDIBELL) and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) have served to validate the effectiveness of a new drug against ovarian cancer resistant to cisplatin...
Vulnerable Patients Benefit From Patient Navigation, Timely Cancer Diagnosis
10/12/2012
Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have shown that patient navigation services help decrease the time to diagnosis for female patients who have received an abnormal result from a breast or cervical cancer screening...
Does HPV Vaccination Lead To An Increase In Sex? No
10/11/2012
One of the concerns regarding vaccinating adolescent girls against HPV infection was whether they might become more sexually active. A study carried out by researchers from Cancer Research UK, University College London, and reported in the journal Vaccine found that vaccinating teenage girls against HPV infection does not lead to greater sexual activity...
New Study Finds Adhesion Molecules Key To Cancer's Spread Through The Body
10/11/2012
Although tumor metastasis causes about 90 percent of cancer deaths, the exact mechanism that allows cancer cells to spread from one part of the body to another is not well understood. One key question is how tumor cells detach from the structural elements that normally hold tissues in place, then reattach themselves in a new site...
Does HPV Vaccination Lead To An Increase In Sex? No
10/11/2012
One of the concerns regarding vaccinating adolescent girls against HPV infection was whether they might become more sexually active. A study carried out by researchers from Cancer Research UK, University College London, and reported in the journal Vaccine found that vaccinating teenage girls against HPV infection does not lead to greater sexual activity...
New Clue To How Cancer Cells Spread
10/10/2012
Scientists have found a new clue to an important question in cancer research: how do cancer cells spread? The clue lies with changes in their stickiness or adhesion properties: they become unstuck at the original tumor site, then reattach themselves at a new site...
Risk Of An Aggressive Form Of Ovarian Cancer May Be Reduced By Aspirin
10/10/2012
New research shows that women who regularly use pain relief medications, particularly aspirin, have a decreased risk of serous ovarian cancer - an aggressive carcinoma affecting the surface of the ovary...