Scientists Develop Model For New Burkitt Lymphoma Treatments
8/15/2012
Burkitt lymphoma is a malignant, fast-growing tumor that originates from a subtype of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system and often affects internal organs and the central nervous system. Now Dr...
New Treatment Options For High-Risk Childhood Leukemia Subtype Offered By Existing Drugs
8/15/2012
Discovery of the genetic basis of a high-risk subtype of leukemia shows some patients might benefit from existing targeted therapies, advancing the goal of curing all children with the most common childhood cancer Scientists have identified new genetic alterations underlying a high-risk subtype of the most common childhood cancer that could be effectively targeted with exist...
Sensitivity To Potential Glioblastoma Treatment Affected By Modification Of Tumor Suppressor
8/15/2012
Despite years of research, glioblastoma, the most common and deadly brain cancer in adults, continues to outsmart treatments targeted to inhibit tumor growth. Biologists and oncologists have long understood that a protein called the epidermal growth factor receptor or EGFR is altered in at least 50 percent of patients with glioblastoma...
Risk Of Bladder Cancer Increased For Over 15 Million Americans Taking Diabetes Drugs
8/15/2012
A popular class of diabetes drugs increases patients' risk of bladder cancer, according to a new study published online this month in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
Urology-Owned Radiation Oncology Self-Referral Can Increase Patients' Travel Distance For Treatment
8/15/2012
Men with prostate cancer in Texas may be driving more than three times farther than needed to obtain radiation oncology treatments for their cancer when treated at a urology-owned radiation oncology practice versus other facilities, according to a study to be published online August 15, 2012, and in the September 1, 2012, print issue of the International Journal of Radiation On...
Bowel Cancer Caused By Faulty Gene And High Iron Levels
8/14/2012
New research published in Cell Reports has revealed that high levels of iron switches on a key pathway in people with faults in a critical anti-cancer gene (APC) that could raise the risk of bowel cancer...
Should Young Men Be Vaccinated Against Human Papilloma Virus?
8/14/2012
A new study published in Viral Immunology has sparked a debate on whether the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination should be given to men. The review - available at http://www.liebertpub...
Should Young Men Be Vaccinated Against Human Papilloma Virus?
8/14/2012
A new study published in Viral Immunology has sparked a debate on whether the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination should be given to men. The review - available at http://www.liebertpub...
Hope For Improved Treatment For Acute Myeloid Leukemia Following Gene Discovery
8/14/2012
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have made a discovery involving mice and humans that could mean that people with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rare and usually fatal cancer, are a step closer to new treatment options. Their study results were published online in Cancer Cell...
Personalized Cancer Care Via Chromosomal Translocations
8/14/2012
A broken chromosome is like an unmoored beansprout circling in search of attachment. If a cell tries to replicate itself with broken chromosomes, the cell will be killed and so it would very much like to find its lost end. Often, it finds a workable substitute: another nearby chromosome...