Smartphone App Improves Ovarian Tumor Database
6/26/2012
When surgeons complete an operation, they often have to go away and immediately fill in records to upload to databases for programs that are tracking patient and disease outcomes to help current and future research and inform treatment decisions...
Smartphone App Improves Ovarian Tumor Database
6/26/2012
When surgeons complete an operation, they often have to go away and immediately fill in records to upload to databases for programs that are tracking patient and disease outcomes to help current and future research and inform treatment decisions...
New Cancer Vaccines Offer Hope To Millions
6/26/2012
At present, Provenge - for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer - is the only cancer vaccine on the market and is only available in the United States. However, healthcare business analysts, GlobalData, predict that over the next six years there will be a significant increase in cancer vaccines...
Breast Cancer Risk May Be Reduced By Exercise, Even Mild Physical Activity
6/26/2012
A new analysis has found that physical activity - either mild or intense and before or after menopause - may reduce breast cancer risk, but substantial weight gain may negate these benefits. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings indicate that women can reduce their breast cancer risk by exercising and maintaining their weight...
Cheaper, Faster Diagnosis In Heterogeneous Disease Via Exome Sequencing
6/26/2012
The first report of the diagnostic use of the technique of exome sequencing, where short sequences of DNA are analysed, shows that it can give good results at low cost, a researcher from The Netherlands told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics...
New Treatment Associated With Improved Cognition In Cancer, Alzheimer's Patients
6/26/2012
Growth factors shown to cure Alzheimer's disease in a mouse model and administered to cancer patients as part of their treatment regimen were linked to significant improvements in the patients' cognitive function following stem cell transplantation, a preliminary clinical study reports...
If your father smoked, your genes are likely damaged, and your odds for cancers and other diseases throughout your life could be increased. A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal, scientists show for the first time in humans that men who smoke before conception can damage the genetic information of their offspring...
Once considered merely a passive link between proteins that matter, Grb2 - pronounced "grab2" - actually lives up to its nickname with its controlling grip on an important cell signaling pathway, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in Cell...
Augmenting Blood System Protein Pathway Protects Against Radiation Poisoning
6/26/2012
New research in Nature Medicine shows that boosting a protein pathway in the body's blood making system protects mice from otherwise fatal radiation poisoning...
Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQCM:PSTI; TASE: PLTR) announced last week at the 2012 Bio International Convention the results of a pre clinical study it conducted measuring the effectiveness of its Placental eXpanded (PLX) cells when administered intramuscularly(IM). Cell therapies are traditionally delivered through intravenous (IV) injections for systemic effect...