Aspirin - Ability To Prevent Cervical Cancer In HIV Infected Women
1/20/2012

According to a study published in the current issue of the journal Cancer Prevention Research, aspirin should be assessed for its ability to prevent cervical cancer developing in women infected with HIV. Aspirin has the potential to provide considerable benefit for women in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, regions where death rates from cervical cancer are extremely high...

Researchers Uncover Mechanism By Which Melanoma Drug Accelerates Secondary Skin Cancers
1/20/2012

Patients with metastatic melanoma taking the recently approved drug vemurafenib (Zelboraf®) responded well to the twice daily pill, but some of them developed a different, secondary skin cancer...

In Acute Myeloid Leukemia Study Pinpoints And Plugs Mechanism Of Cancer Cell Escape
1/20/2012

A study published this week in the journal Leukemia identifies a mechanism that acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells use to evade chemotherapy - and details how to close this escape route...

Study Examines Drug Resistance In ALK Positive Lung Cancer
1/20/2012

Scientists from the University of Colorado Cancer Center have once again advanced the treatment of a specific kind of lung cancer. The team has documented how anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) becomes resistant to a drug targeting the abnormal protein in the cancer...

For Early Detection Of Colorectal Cancer, New Test Offers Greater Accuracy
1/20/2012

Results of two studies suggest that a new, investigational colorectal cancer screening test developed in a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and Exact Sciences Inc. of Madison, Wis., is highly accurate and significantly more sensitive than other noninvasive tests at detecting precancerous tumors (adenomas) and early-stage cancer...

Aspirin Merits Testing For Prevention Of Cervical Cancer In HIV-Infected Women
1/20/2012

Research conducted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center global health investigators and cancer specialists in New York, Qatar and Haiti suggests that aspirin should be evaluated for its ability to prevent development of cervical cancer in HIV-infected women...

The Mystery Of An Old Diabetes Drug That May Reduce Cancer Risk: Research Opens Exciting New Avenues In Cancer Prevention
1/20/2012

In 2005, news first broke that researchers in Scotland found unexpectedly low rates of cancer among diabetics taking metformin, a drug commonly prescribed to patients with Type II diabetes. Many follow-up studies reported similar findings, some suggesting as much as a 50-per-cent reduction in risk...