Awareness, Detection And Treatment Programs Required To Improve Breast Health Care In Pakistan
8/03/2012
Among most women in Pakistan, there is limited awareness of breast cancer occurrence, detection, and screening practices, or the importance of self-breast exams and clinical breast exams, according to a study in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. In Pakistan, breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women and the incidence is rising...
Self-Help For Men Supporting Their Spouses Through Breast Cancer
8/03/2012
Male partners of breast cancer patients are likely to take a pass on spousal support groups in favour of exercise or an evening out with friends to cope with stresses associated with the disease, according to new research from the University of Alberta...
Potential Weapon In The Fight Against Cancer
8/03/2012
By identifying a key protein that tells certain breast cancer cells when and how to move, researchers at Michigan State University hope to better understand the process by which breast cancer spreads, or metastasizes. When breast cancer metastasizes, cancer cells break away from a primary tumor and move to other organs in the body, including the lungs, liver and brain...
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Aug. 1, 2012
8/03/2012
ONCOLOGY Chemokine pathway suppresses colon cancer metastasis Chemokines are signals in the body that act as beacons, calling out to migrating cells, such as white blood cells, guiding them to where they are needed...
Cancer Stem Cells May Be Responsible For Tumor Growth
8/02/2012
Three new studies of cancer in the brain, skin and gut, appear to support the controversial idea that cancer may have its own stem cells that drive the regrowth of tumors. If confirmed with more evidence, the idea may transform our understanding of cancer and how it should be treated. Papers on all three studies appeared online on Wednesday, two in Nature and one in Science...
Women With Advanced Breast Cancer Offered New Hope By Change In Drug Regimen
8/02/2012
A study co-authored by a Loyola researcher and published in the New England Journal of Medicine is offering new hope to women with advanced breast cancer. The study found that combing two drugs that normally are each given as single agents significantly extended the lives of women with metastatic breast cancer...
A potentially powerful new approach to treating two lethal metastatic cancers - triple negative breast cancer and clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer - has been discovered by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida...
Gene Discovered That Permanently Stops Cancer Cell Proliferation
8/02/2012
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a mutant form of the gene, Chk1, that when expressed in cancer cells, permanently stopped their proliferation and caused cell death without the addition of any chemotherapeutic drugs. This study illustrates an unprecedented finding, that artificially activating Chk1 alone is sufficient to kill cancer cells...
Cancer Metastasis May Be Grounded By 'Flightless' Molecule
8/02/2012
New research in The FASEB Journal shows that a molecule called 'flightless' significantly helps control the speed with which cells move through various tissues Thanks to the "flightless" molecule, the spread of cancer from one tissue to another may one day be grounded...
Promising New Therapeutic Target For Aggressive Breast Cancer
8/02/2012
Scientists at Western University have identified a new therapeutic target for advanced breast cancer which has shown tremendous promise in mouse models. The study led by Lynne-Marie Postovit of Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry looked at a protein called Nodal that is primarily found in embryonic or stem cells...