Side Effects Of Treatment For Prostate Cancer Reduced
8/29/2012
New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine reassessing clinical data from trials, which investigate ways of treating side effects of therapy for prostate cancer, finds that tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen used to treat breast cancer, is also able to suppress gynecomastia and breast pain in men...
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Aug. 27, 2012
8/29/2012
Vitamin B3 helps fight staph infections in mice Staph infections are responsible for an increasing number of life threatening infections and the bacteria that cause these infections are widespread in the community and the healthcare system. The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus normally resides on skin and in noses and typically infects tissues through cuts or rashes...
According to a new study, the use of narrow band imaging (NBI) during colonoscopy is sufficiently accurate to allow distal hyperplastic (non-cancerous) polyps to be left in place without removal and small, distal adenomas (pre-cancerous polyps) to be removed and discarded without pathologic assessment...
Links Between Nutrients, Genes And Cancer Spread
8/28/2012
More than 40 plant-based compounds can turn on genes that slow the spread of cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by a Washington State University researcher. Gary Meadows, WSU professor and associate dean for graduate education and scholarship in the College of Pharmacy, says he is encouraged by his findings because the spread of cancer is most often what makes the disease fatal...
Research May Provide Tool To Study Cancer Metabolism
8/28/2012
Scientists have known for decades that cancer cells use more glucose than healthy cells, feeding the growth of some types of tumors...
Genomic Variant Discovered That Increases Risk Of Brain Tumors
8/28/2012
People who carry a "G" instead of an "A" at a specific spot in their genetic code have roughly a six-fold higher risk of developing certain types of brain tumors, a Mayo Clinic and University of California, San Francisco study has found...
Increased Risk Of Recurrence Of Most Common Type Of Breast Cancer In Overweight And Obese Women
8/28/2012
Extra pounds - even within the overweight but not obese range - are linked to a higher risk of recurrence of the most common type of breast cancer despite optimal cancer treatment, according to a new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society...
Genetic Markers Discovered That Could Signal Colon Cancer Development
8/28/2012
University of Minnesota Medical School and Masonic Cancer Center researchers have partnered with geneticists from Genentech, Inc., to discover how some proteins may cause the development of some forms of colon cancers. The proteins - part of R-spondin family - normally help activate cell proliferation during embryonic development...
When Malignant Brain Tumors Appear At Multiple Sites, Length Of Survival Affected
8/28/2012
When aggressive, malignant tumors appear in more than one location in the brain, patient survival tends to be significantly shorter than when the disease starts as a single tumor, even though patients in both groups undergo virtually identical treatments, according to research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Research Institute...
New Molecular Interactions Behind The Inhibition Of TGF Beta-Signaling Described
8/28/2012
Researchers headed by Maria Macias an ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Joan Massague, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, have identified a new molecular mechanism that plays a crucial role in the control of the activation of certain genes associated with cancer...