Increase In Injectable Treatment For Blood Clots In Advanced Cancer Patients
2/15/2012
The use of an injectable, clot-preventing drug known as Low Molecular Weight Heparin to treat patients with advanced cancer complicated by blood clots increased steadily between 2000 and 2007, according to a new study published in The Oncologist, funded by the National Cancer Institute and led by Kaiser Permanente Colorado...
Patients With AL Amyloidosis May Benefit From Powerful Myeloma Treatment Regimen
2/15/2012
Two studies published in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), demonstrate preliminary success of an effective multiple myeloma (MM) regimen in patients with AL amyloidosis, a rare and devastating blood disease that results in deposition of damaging abnormal protein in critical organs of the body, including the kidneys, heart, liver, and intestines, an...
Orgasms Often Unafffected Following Nerve Sparing In Prostate Cancer Surgery
2/15/2012
The vast majority of men who have a prostate cancer operation can retain their ability to orgasm if the surgery is carried out without removing the nerves that surround the prostate gland like a hammock, according to a study in the February issue of the urology journal BJUI...
Targeting Leukemia Stem Cells
2/15/2012
New research takes aim at stubborn cancer stem cells that are thought to be responsible for treatment resistance and relapse...
Quest For Cancer Treatments Strengthened By Cell Discovery
2/15/2012
Fresh insights into how our cells multiply could help scientists develop drugs to treat cancer. Researchers have gained better understanding of the workings of two key proteins that control cell division. This process must be carried out accurately to keep cells healthy, and when it goes out of control, it can lead to cancer...
Ingestion Of PAHs From Pavement Sealant May Put Children At Risk
2/15/2012
Children living near coal-tar-sealed pavement are likely to receive a far higher dose of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from incidental ingestion of house dust than do children living near unsealed pavement, and that dose is more than two times higher than the PAH dose children are estimated to receive from food...
Human Testing Of New HIV-Vaccine
2/15/2012
Scientists from the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital and Antwerp University have tested a new 'therapeutic vaccine' against HIV on volunteers. The participants were 'so to say' vaccinated with their own cells. The researchers filtered certain white blood cells out of the volunteer's blood, 'loaded' them outside the body and then gave them back...
Orgasms Often Unafffected Following Nerve Sparing In Prostate Cancer Surgery
2/15/2012
The vast majority of men who have a prostate cancer operation can retain their ability to orgasm if the surgery is carried out without removing the nerves that surround the prostate gland like a hammock, according to a study in the February issue of the urology journal BJUI...
Targeting Leukemia Stem Cells
2/15/2012
New research takes aim at stubborn cancer stem cells that are thought to be responsible for treatment resistance and relapse...
Breast Cancer Spreads By Using Patient's Immune System
2/14/2012
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) spreads easily through the lymphatic and blood vessels, forming metastasis, which can cause several organs in the body to fail, IBC is also the deadliest form of breast cancer...