Chronic Stress Found To Increase Cancer Severity In Mouse Model
4/27/2012
Worrywarts, fidgety folk and the naturally nervy may have a real cause for concern: accelerated cancer. In a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, anxiety-prone mice developed more severe cancer then their calm counterparts...
A research collaboration between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston has created a microfluidic device that can harvest rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood to enable their expansion in culture for analysis...
Complications Of Sickle Cell Trait May Be Improved By Exercise
4/27/2012
Sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited condition that causes red blood cells to sometimes deform into a crescent shape, affects an estimated 100,000 Americans, typically those of African descent. However, far more have sickle cell trait (SCT), caused when individuals carry just a single copy of the disease-causing mutation in their genes...
Risk Of Stroke High When Anti-Clotting Drugs Stopped
4/27/2012
Some patients with irregular heartbeats who are taken off anti-clotting medication face a high risk of stroke or blood clotting within a month, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association's Emerging Science Series webinar...
Melanoma - Gene Research Should Pave Way To Targeted Treatment
4/26/2012
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals that elevated expression of a gene in the deadly skin cancer melanoma can raise the mortality risk from the tumor, making it a potentially new target for treating melanomas that express high levels of this gene...
Healthy Living For Cancer Survivors
4/26/2012
The American Cancer Society (ACS) released new guidelines today, with advice especially aimed at cancer survivors seeking help about avoiding the return of the disease, or hoping to protect family members from their own plight. The ACS recommendations are pretty straight forward, although many of us find it hard to implement and maintain them...
Leukaemia Cells Have A Remembrance Of Things Past
4/26/2012
Although people generally talk about "cancer", it is clear that the disease occurs in a bewildering variety of forms. Even single groups of cancers, such as those of the white blood cells, may show widely differing properties...
Molecular Probes Identify Changes In Fibronectin That May Lead To Disease
4/26/2012
Fibronectin plays a major role in wound healing and embryonic development. The protein, which is located in the extracellular matrix of cells, has also been linked to pathological conditions including cancer and fibrosis...
A family history of liver cancer is reported to increase risk of developing hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC), independent of hepatitis according to findings published in the May issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases...
Precancerous Condition Associated With Reflux Disease Triggered By Bile - Not Acid
4/26/2012
For many people with gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD, acid reflux drugs are the answer to their woes, curbing the chronic heartburn and regurgitation of food or sour liquid characteristic of the disorder. But when it comes to Barrett's esophagus, a condition commonly found in people with GERD, acid control may be less important than beating back another bodily fluid - bile...