Vitamin D - How Much Is Too Much?
6/13/2012
Vitamin D is vital for absorbing and maintaining calcium levels in the body, and therefore reducing the risk of fractures from falls and broken hips...
From Infection To Inflammation To Cancer: Scientists Offer New Clues
6/13/2012
Chronic inflammation of the liver, stomach or colon, often as a result of infection by viruses and bacteria, is one of the biggest risk factors for cancer of these organs...
Diesel Exhaust Fumes Cause Cancer, WHO
6/13/2012
Following a week-long meeting of international experts, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) cancer panel has classified diesel engine exhaust as carcinogenic or cancer-causing to humans, more than 20 years after it was classified as "probably carcinogenic to humans"...
Lung Cancer And Leukemia Cells Attacked By New Ruthenium-Based Drugs
6/13/2012
A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows how light and strained ruthenium-based drugs may be more effective at fighting cancer cells and less toxic to healthy cells than a similar and widely used drug. Cisplatin is a common platinum-based cancer drug. But while cisplatin kills cancer cells, it also attacks healthy cells, causing debilitating side effects...
Spread Of Melanoma Driven By Gene Inactivation
6/13/2012
Why do some cancers spread rapidly to other organs and others don't metastasize? A team of UNC researchers led by Norman Sharpless, MD, have identified a key genetic switch that determines whether melanoma, a lethal skin cancer, spreads by metastasis. Treating melanoma is extremely challenging. The cancer spreads rapidly and to sites in the body that are remote from the original cancer site...
How Chemical And Genetic Changes That Occur As Inflammation Progress To Cancer
6/13/2012
One of the biggest risk factors for liver, colon or stomach cancer is chronic inflammation of those organs, often caused by viral or bacterial infections. A new study from MIT offers the most comprehensive look yet at how such infections provoke tissues into becoming cancerous...
A new analysis has found that many adolescent and young adult cancer survivors have unhealthy behaviors, chronic medical conditions, a poor quality of life, and significant barriers to health care access...
Genes Linked To Chemotherapy Resistance In Breast Cancer
6/13/2012
A study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators has identified a gene expression pattern that may explain why chemotherapy prior to surgery isn't effective against some tumors and suggests new therapy options for patients with specific subtypes of breast cancer. The study by lead author Justin Balko, Pharm.D., Ph.D...
Basal Cell Carcinoma Risk Linked To Early Life Stress
6/12/2012
Having a troubled early parent-child relationship together with a severe life event in the past year may potentially be linked to immune responses to the most common skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma (BCC). The study is published in Archives of General Psychiatry...
New Drug Treatment Extends Life In Advanced Prostate Cancer That Has Spread To Bone
6/12/2012
Prostate cancer patients with advanced tumors that have spread to bone have a poor chance of surviving. Patients with the disease may now live longer with a new line of radioisotope therapy, said researchers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2012 Annual Meeting. The skeletal systemis the number one metastatic site in patients with prostate cancer...