First 'Theranostic' Treatment For Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
3/09/2012
A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has developed the first "theranostic" agent for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). ALL is the most common type of childhood cancer diagnosed in approximately 5,000 new cases each year in the United States...
New Way To Study Liver Cancer Created By Wilmot Researchers
3/09/2012
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center's James P. Wilmot Cancer Center have made significant strides in the study of a primary cancer of the liver - Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (IHCC), also called biliary tract cancer. Their work has been published online and in print editions of Cancer Research, the most frequently cited cancer journal in the world. Aram Hezel, M.D...
Research Sheds Light On Cancer Of The Appendix
3/09/2012
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated that cancer of the appendix is different than colon cancer, a distinction that could lead to more effective treatments for both diseases. The study by Edward A. Levine, M.D., professor of surgery and chief of the surgical oncology service at Wake Forest Baptist, is the result of gene analysis of cases covering a 10-year period...
New Study Clarifies Crystal Structure Of Archael Chromatin
3/09/2012
Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima, Japan have clarified for the first time how chromatin in archaea, one of the three evolutionary branches of organisms in nature, binds to DNA...
High-Fat Diets Increase Colon Cancer Risk
3/09/2012
Epidemiologists have long warned that, in addition to causing obesity, eating too much fat and sugar puts a person at greater risk for colon cancer. Now, researchers at Temple University have established a link that may explain why...
A rarely seen phenomenon in cancer patients - in which focused radiation to the site of one tumor is associated with the disappearance of metastatic tumors all over the body - has been reported in a patient with melanoma treated with the immunotherapeutic agent ipilimumab (Yervoy™)...
High-Fat Diets Increase Colon Cancer Risk
3/09/2012
Epidemiologists have long warned that, in addition to causing obesity, eating too much fat and sugar puts a person at greater risk for colon cancer. Now, researchers at Temple University have established a link that may explain why...
A rarely seen phenomenon in cancer patients - in which focused radiation to the site of one tumor is associated with the disappearance of metastatic tumors all over the body - has been reported in a patient with melanoma treated with the immunotherapeutic agent ipilimumab (Yervoy™)...
Tumor's Genetic Identity Not Revealed By Single Biopsy
3/08/2012
Taking one biopsy sample of a tumor may not be enough to reveal its full genetic identity, according to a breakthrough Cancer Research UK study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday 8 March...
Tumor's Genetic Identity Not Revealed By Single Biopsy
3/08/2012
Taking one biopsy sample of a tumor may not be enough to reveal its full genetic identity, according to a breakthrough Cancer Research UK study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday 8 March...