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...
What is Deep Vein Thrombosis? What Is DVT?
2/20/2012
Deep vein thrombosis, also known as DVT refers to the formation of a thrombus in a deep vein in the leg. A thrombus is a blood clot. Deep vein thrombosis tends to occur in leg veins, such as the popliteal or femoral veins, as well as deep veins within the pelvis. In some cases, as with Paget-Schrötter disease, they may form in the veins of the arm...
Potential Treatment Target Identified For KRAS-Mutated Colon Cancer
2/20/2012
Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have identified a new potential strategy for treating colon tumors driven by mutations in the KRAS gene, which usually resist both conventional and targeted treatments...
Living Model Of Brain Tumor
2/20/2012
Brown University scientists have created the first three-dimensional living tissue model, complete with surrounding blood vessels, to analyze the effectiveness of therapeutics to combat brain tumors. The 3-D model gives medical researchers more and better information than Petri dish tissue cultures...
Researchers Test Nanoscale Carbon Clusters For Chemotherapy
2/20/2012
A mixture of current drugs and carbon nanoparticles shows potential to enhance treatment for head-and-neck cancers, especially when combined with radiation therapy, according to new research by Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The work blazes a path for further research into therapy customized to the needs of individual patients...
That our chromosomes can break and reshuffle pieces of themselves is nothing new; scientists have recognized this for decades, especially in cancer cells. The rules for where chromosomes are likely to break and how the broken pieces come together are only just now starting to come into view...
Virus' Coats Used In Nano-Technology To Fool Cancer Cells
2/20/2012
While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment...
New Paths To Treat Cancer, Other Diseases, With The Help Of Video Games
2/20/2012
The cure for cancer comes down to this: video games. In a research lab at Wake Forest University, biophysicist and computer scientist Samuel Cho uses graphics processing units (GPUs), the technology that makes videogame images so realistic, to simulate the inner workings of human cells...
Major Breakthrough In Nanosurgery And The Fight Against Cancer
2/20/2012
Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have succeeded in changing the genetic material of cancer cells using a brand-new transfection method. This major breakthrough in nanosurgery opens the door to new medical applications, among others for the treatment of cancers...
Study Details On-off Switch That Promotes Or Suppresses Breast Cancer
2/20/2012
Signals can tell cells to act cancerous, surviving, growing and reproducing out of control. And signals can also tell cells with cancerous characteristics to stop growing or to die. In breast cancer, one tricky signal called TGF-beta does both - sometimes promoting tumors and sometimes suppressing them...