Smokeless Tobacco Substitutes Save Lives
2/21/2012
Substituting smokeless tobacco products can save smokers' lives, and there is a scientific foundation that proves it. That is the message Brad Rodu, D.D.S...
Women May Be At Increased Cancer Risk Following Vitamin B And Omega-3 Supplementation
2/21/2012
Women with a previous history of cardiovascular pathologies seem to have a higher cancer risk after five years of Vitamin B and omega-3 supplementation. The research is published in detail in the Archives of Internal Medicine...
Blocking autophagy - the process of "self-eating" within cells -- is turning out to be a viable way to enhance the effectiveness of a wide variety of cancer treatments. Specifically, blocking the action of an acidic inner cell part, which acts like a stomach and chews up proteins for recycling, is the main attack strategy, says Ravi K...
Blocking autophagy - the process of "self-eating" within cells -- is turning out to be a viable way to enhance the effectiveness of a wide variety of cancer treatments. Specifically, blocking the action of an acidic inner cell part, which acts like a stomach and chews up proteins for recycling, is the main attack strategy, says Ravi K...
Some 90 percent of people are exposed to the Epstein Barr virus (EBV) at some point in their life. Even though it is quickly cleared from the body, the virus can linger silently for years in small numbers of infected B cells...
Health Behaviors Worse Among Female Cancer Survivors
2/20/2012
Women who survive cancer receiving mammography screening have "worse health behaviors", than those who had never had cancer and receiving mammography screening, according to a study by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology...
"DNA Origami" Robots Target Cancer Cells
2/20/2012
Using a technique called "DNA origami", US scientists have made programmable molecule-transporting nanorobots that can seek out particular cell targets and deliver specific instructions for them to follow. One example of such use could be to tell cancer cells to destroy themselves. The researchers write about their findings in Friday's online issue of Science...
Expert Says Four New Drugs Will Change Prostate Cancer Care
2/20/2012
After a decade and a half of near stagnation, four new drugs could help make advanced prostate cancer a chronic illness instead of a terminal disease, a leading Colorado prostate cancer expert says. "It's not just chemotherapy. The drugs have different and innovative methods of action...
Targeted Tumor Freezing Therapy Increases Ovarian Cancer Survival
2/20/2012
Ovarian cancer, which killed 15,000 American women last year, is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. A team of Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers recently proved that freezing tumors increases survival rates in ovarian cancer patients. The "freeze and destroy" technique is an alternative for local treatment of cancerous tumors, said Peter Littrup, M.D...
Expert Says Four New Drugs Will Change Prostate Cancer Care
2/20/2012
After a decade and a half of near stagnation, four new drugs could help make advanced prostate cancer a chronic illness instead of a terminal disease, a leading Colorado prostate cancer expert says. "It's not just chemotherapy. The drugs have different and innovative methods of action...