Radiotherapy Alone Better For HPV-Positive Throat Cancer Patients Than HPV-Negative Patients
5/11/2012
New findings from a large Danish database of cancer patients suggest that, even though the human papilloma virus (HPV) can trigger throat cancer, patients who are HPV-positive and are light smokers, or don't smoke at all, have a good response to treatment using radiotherapy alone, without the addition of chemotherapy with its consequent toxic side-effects...
Identifying A Molecular-Based Treatment For A Viral Skin Cancer
5/11/2012
Four years after they discovered the viral roots of a rare skin cancer, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and the School of Medicine have now identified a molecule activated by this virus that, in animal studies, could be targeted to selectively kill the tumor cells. The treatment will soon be tested in patients...
Melanoma - the deadliest and most aggressive form of skin cancer - has long been linked to time spent in the sun. Now a team led by scientists from the Broad Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has sequenced the whole genomes of 25 metastatic melanoma tumors, confirming the role of chronic sun exposure and revealing new genetic changes important in tumor formation...
For the first time, scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have transplanted brain cancer patients' own gene-modified blood stem cells in order to protect their bone marrow against the toxic side effects of chemotherapy...
Salivary Gland Damage In Head And Neck Cancer May Be Avoided By Stem Cell Sparing Radiotherapy
5/11/2012
Researchers believe they may have found a way to avoid damaging salivary glands during radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer - a discovery that could improve the quality of life of 500,000 patients a year worldwide with the disease...
Exhaustion Renders Immune Cells Less Effective In Cancer Treatment
5/11/2012
Rather than stimulating immune cells to more effectively battle cancerous tumors, treatment with the protein interleukin-12 (IL-12) has the opposite effect, driving these intracellular fighters to exhaustion, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The findings appear in the Journal of Clinical Investigation...
Soaking Soybeans In Warm Water Naturally Releases Key Cancer-Fighting Substance
5/11/2012
Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Hari B...
Controlling The Action Of Estrogen, Key Risk Factor For Endometrial And Breast Cancers
5/11/2012
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a molecule that inhibits the action of estrogen. This female hormone plays a key role in the growth, maintenance and repair of reproductive tissues and fuels the development of endometrial and breast cancers...
Exercise Reduces Breast And Colon Cancer Death Rates
5/10/2012
A study in the May 8 edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reveals that physical activity is linked to lower rates of breast and colon cancer deaths. However, there is not enough evidence to link physical activity to other types of cancer...
Blocking Cancer's Recycling System
5/10/2012
According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, the Abramson Cancer Center and the School or Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new drug called Lys05 which blocks the process of recycling in cancer cells, thus preventing autophagy - which cancer cells rely ...