Highly Toxic Compounds In Tobacco Not Regulated By Law
10/04/2012
Researchers from the University of Alicante (Spain) have analysed ten brands of cigarettes and found that the concentrations of certain harmful and carcinogenic substances vary significantly from one brand to another. Until now legislation has not covered these compounds and only establishes limits for nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide...
A Reduction In Breast Biopsies Likely With New MRI Technique
10/04/2012
Water diffusion measurements with MRI could decrease false-positive breast cancer results and reduce preventable biopsies, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Researchers said the technique also could improve patient management by differentiating high-risk lesions requiring additional workup from other non-malignant subtypes...
Using Lower Doses Of Chemo With Greater Effect: New Hope For Taming Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
10/04/2012
Disease-free survival is short-lived for women with triple-negative breast cancer - a form of the disease that doesn't respond to hormone drugs and becomes resistant to chemotherapy...
For Cord Blood Cell Transplantation After Stoke, Therapeutic Time Window An Important Factor
10/04/2012
A research team from Germany has found that optimal benefit and functional improvement for ischemic stroke results when human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells (hUCB MNCs) are transplanted into rat stroke models within 72 hours of the stroke. Their study is published in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (21:6), now freely available on-line...
Trial Of Genetically Engineered Immune System To Fight Melanoma
10/04/2012
Loyola University Medical Center has launched the first clinical trial in the Midwest of an experimental melanoma treatment that genetically engineers a patient's immune system to fight the deadly cancer. A batch of the immune system's killer T cells will be removed from the patient and genetically modified in a Loyola lab...
New Targeted Therapy Indicated By Breakthrough In Understanding Lung Cancer Vulnerabilities
10/04/2012
More effective treatments for one of the deadliest forms of cancer are one step closer thanks to groundbreaking research from an international collaborative study...
Alzheimer's May Be Result Of Natural Anti-Cancer Mechanism
10/04/2012
Scientists have discovered a natural mechanism the body uses to protect against cancer could be the reason brain cells in people with Alzheimer's disease deteriorate so rapidly. They hope their discovery will (for the first time) offer a target for treating the disease...
New Treatment And Hope For Ovarian Cancer Patients
10/04/2012
Ovarian cancer can be treated by a newly discovered type of drug that reduces the number of doses the patients need to take, and is also effective for those whose cancer has become drug-resistant. The treatment was discovered by a team at USC and has been tested on mice tumors and on ovarian cancer cells. The finding was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...
Clinical Trial Success Rate Of New Breast Cancer Drugs Increased By Biological Markers
10/04/2012
Using biological markers - genetic characteristics that are associated with some breast cancer patients - can increase the success rate of clinical trials for breast cancer drugs by almost 50 per cent, says new research from the University of Toronto Mississauga...
Improved Treatment Outcomes With Preoperative Needle Breast Biopsies
10/04/2012
Women suspected of having breast cancer now have more reasons to be diagnosed with a needle biopsy instead of a traditional open surgical biopsy...