High-Risk Human Papilloma Virus Found With Epstein Barr Virus In Prostate Cancer
8/01/2012
Two common viruses known to be associated with human cancers are both present - and may even be collaborating with each other - in most male prostate cancers, a new study suggests. The research involved examination of 100 specimens of normal, malignant and benign prostate samples from Australian men...
Studying How Antimelanoma Immune Responses Develop During Disease Progression
8/01/2012
In many types of cancer, activated immune cells infiltrate the tumor and influence clinical outcome. It is not always clear where these cells are activated, but results reported in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, indicate that in a subset of patients with metastatic melanoma, they can be activated in the tumor microenvironment...
High-Risk Human Papilloma Virus Found With Epstein Barr Virus In Prostate Cancer
8/01/2012
Two common viruses known to be associated with human cancers are both present - and may even be collaborating with each other - in most male prostate cancers, a new study suggests. The research involved examination of 100 specimens of normal, malignant and benign prostate samples from Australian men...
An international team of mathematicians has proposed a new solution to understanding a biological puzzle that has confounded molecular biologists. They have applied a mathematical model to work out the functioning of small molecules known as microRNAs - components of the body akin to the electronics in modern airplanes...
Drugs Identified By Computational Analysis For The Treatment Of Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer
8/01/2012
Researchers have used computational analysis to identify a new Achilles heel for the treatment of drug-resistant breast cancer. The results, which are published in Molecular Systems Biology, reveal that the disruption of glucose metabolism is an effective therapeutic strategy for the treatment of tumours that have acquired resistance to front-line cancer drugs such as Lapatinib...
Not Doing The PSA Test May Result In Many Men Presenting With Far More Advanced Prostate Cancer
8/01/2012
Eliminating the PSA test to screen for prostate cancer would be taking a big step backwards and would likely result in rising numbers of men with metastatic cancer at the time of diagnosis, predicted a University of Rochester Medical Center analysis published in the journal, Cancer...
Photoacoustics For Detecting Cancer May Have Limited Use
8/01/2012
One person dies every hour from melanoma skin cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. A technique, known as photoacoustics, can find some forms of melanoma even if only a few cancerous cells exist, but a recent study by MU researchers found that the technique was limited in its ability to identify other types of cancer...
New Therapeutic Approaches Suggested By Insight Into Mechanism Of Lung Cancer-Associated Mutations
8/01/2012
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have identified how one of the genes most commonly mutated in lung cancer may promote such tumors...
Cancer Research May Benefit From Recent Protein Discovery
7/31/2012
A paper published in the online edition of Current Biology reports that a graduate student from Simon Fraser University and her thesis supervisor discovered how a certain protein type controls the growth of another protein. The discovery could contribute to research in the fight against cancer...
Liver Cancer Cells Stop Making Glucose As They Become Cancerous; Findings May Lead To New Treatment
7/31/2012
As liver cancer develops, tumor cells lose the ability to produce and release glucose into the bloodstream, a key function of healthy liver cells for maintaining needed blood-sugar levels. The findings come from a study by scientists at The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James)...