CARE Act Hearing: Immediate Passage Of Bill Encouraged To Ensure Safe Cancer Treatments
6/11/2012
American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Chairman Leonard Gunderson, MD, MS, FASTRO, has testifeid before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on provisions of the Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2011 (CARE Act) related to training and credentialing for medical imaging and ...
Chemotherapy Resistance And Overexpression Of Proteins 14-3-3
6/11/2012
Certain proteins, such as 14-3-3, conserve their basic functions of cell cycle control in diverse organisms, from worms to humans...
Researchers Develop And Test New Anti-Cancer Vaccine
6/11/2012
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed and tested in mice a synthetic vaccine and found it effective in killing human papillomavirus-derived cancer, a virus linked to cervical cancers among others. The research was published in a recent issue of Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy...
Pioneering Use Of Fruit Flies To Identify A Drug That Targets Cancer
6/11/2012
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine developed a cancer model built in the fruit fly Drosophila, then used it to create a whole new approach to the discovery of cancer treatments. The result is an investigational compound AD80 that precisely targets multiple cancer genes...
Researchers Make Important Breakthrough In Immunology
6/10/2012
A team of researchers at the IRCM led by Dr. Andre Veillette made an important breakthrough in the field of immunology, which was published online by the scientific journal Immunity. The scientists explained a poorly understood molecular mechanism associated with a human immune disorder known as XLP disease or Duncan's syndrome...
Genetic Mutations And Colon Cancer Development
6/10/2012
In exploring the genetics of mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have stumbled upon a finding that challenges previously held beliefs about the role of mutations in cancer development. For the first time, researchers have found that the number of new mutations are significantly lower in cancers than in normal cells...
How Cancers Spread At Cellular Level - Scientists Find Clues
6/09/2012
The fact that different types of tumors only spread to particular, select organs has been known to cancer researchers for longer than a century. However, so far scientists have been unable to determine the 'soil and seed' theory of 1889, which is the underlying mechanism behind organ-specific metastasis...
Discovery Alters Traditional View Of How Prostate Cancer Develops
6/09/2012
A team of UC Davis investigators has found that a genetic mutation may play an important role in the development of prostate cancer. The mutation of the so-called p53 (or Tp53) gene was previously implicated in late disease progression, but until now has never been shown to act as an initiating factor. The findings may open new avenues for diagnosing and treating the disease...
Some Fetal Cells Can Migrate Into Maternal Organs During Pregnancy
6/09/2012
A pregnant woman's blood stream contains not only her own cells, but a small number of her child's, as well, and some of them remain in her internal organs long after the baby is born. Understanding the origin and identity of these cells is vital to understanding their potential effects on a mother's long-term health...
How Cancers Spread At Cellular Level - Scientists Find Clues
6/08/2012
The fact that different types of tumors only spread to particular, select organs has been known to cancer researchers for longer than a century. However, so far scientists have been unable to determine the 'soil and seed' theory of 1889, which is the underlying mechanism behind organ-specific metastasis...