Don't Let A History Of Unsuccessful Weight Loss Deter You From Future Attempts To Lose Weight
8/16/2012
Yo-yo dieting - the repetitive loss and regain of body weight, also called weight cycling - is prevalent in the Western world, affecting an estimated 10 percent to 40 percent of the population. The degree to which weight cycling may impact metabolism or thwart a person's ability to lose weight in the long run has been unclear - until now...
Breast Cancer Patients Benefit From Pre-Test Genetic Counseling
8/16/2012
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have found that when breast cancer patients are offered pre-test genetic counseling before definitive breast cancer surgery, patients exhibited decreases in distress. Those offered pre-test genetic counseling after surgery improved their informed decision-making...
Novel Drug Combination Offers New Strategy To Destroy Multiple Myeloma
8/16/2012
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center are reporting promising results from laboratory and animal experiments involving a new combination therapy for multiple myeloma, the second most common form of blood cancer...
Chemotherapy's Side Effects May Be Dramatically Reduced In The Future
8/16/2012
Researchers in Leuven (VIB/KU Leuven) have confirmed their hypothesis that normalizing blood vessels by blocking oxygen sensor PHD2 would make chemotherapy more effective. They also demonstrated for the first time that this strategy would reduce the harmful side effects of chemotherapy on healthy organs...
Like Bacteria, Cancer Cells Rely On Communication And Cooperation
8/16/2012
Experts agree that, more than ever before, modern wars will be fought in the cyber zone, targeting an enemy's communications technology to cause untold damage. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher is suggesting that the same tactics should be employed in the battle against one of the body's deadliest enemies - cancer. In an article published in Trends in Microbiology, Prof...
Tissue implants made of cells grown on a sponge-like scaffold have been shown in clinical trials to help heal arteries scarred by atherosclerosis and other vascular diseases. However, it has been unclear why some implants work better than others. MIT researchers led by Elazer Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W...
Breast Cancer Patients With Bone Metastases Benefit From Denosumab
8/16/2012
Treatment with denosumab resulted in a greater reduction in skeletal-related events in patients with breast cancer that spread to the bones compared with zoledronic acid, while also maintaining health-related quality of life, according to the results of a phase III study published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Cause Of Burkitt Lymphoma Discovered
8/15/2012
Burkitt lymphoma is an extremely fast growing form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that originates from a subgroup of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system. Now, researchers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have discovered a vital component that converts the immune cells into malignant lymphoma cells. According to Dr...
Internal Microscopic Diagnostic Devices - Clinicians Need More Training
8/15/2012
To diagnose illness in areas of the body that are hard-to-reach, clinicians increasingly use tiny space age probes, which can see inside single living cells. A new study published in the journal Digestive Diseases and Sciences reveals that specialists who are beginning to use these devices may be interpreting what they see in different ways. Dr...
Skin Cancer Patients Should Be Screened Before Receiving Vemurafenib
8/15/2012
According to a study conducted by Cancer Research UK, different genetic mutations powering skin cancer may have an impact on how patients respond to the drug vemurafenib, meaning that individuals suffering from melanoma skin cancer should be screened prior to treatment...