Updated guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention from the American Cancer Society stress the importance of creating social and physical environments that support healthy behaviors...
Discovery Of Novel Therapeutic Target To Slow Breast Cancer Cell Motility
1/13/2012
Interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15), a ubiquitin like protein, is highly elevated in a variety of cancers including breast cancer. How the elevated ISG15 pathway contributes to tumorigenic phenotypes remains unclear and is the subject of a study published in the January 2012 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine. Dr...
Discovery Of First Major Genetic Mutation Associated With Hereditary Prostate Cancer Risk
1/13/2012
After a 20-year quest to find a genetic driver for prostate cancer that strikes men at younger ages and runs in families, researchers have identified a rare, inherited mutation linked to a significantly higher risk of the disease. A report on the discovery was published in the January 12, 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
Leukemia Relapse May Be Influenced By Chemotherapy
1/13/2012
The chemotherapy drugs required to push a common form of adult leukemia into remission may contribute to DNA damage that can lead to a relapse of the disease in some patients, findings of a new study suggest. The research, by a team of physicians and scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is published in the advance online edition of Nature...
Potential Approaches To Combat Aggressive Leukemia Identified By Cancer Sequencing Project
1/13/2012
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Gene Identified As A New Target For Treatment Of Aggressive Childhood Eye Tumor
1/13/2012
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project findings help solve mystery of retinoblastoma's rapid growth in work that also yields a new treatment target and possible therapy New findings from the St...
Further Investigation Needed To Understand Link Between Parabens And Breast Cancer
1/13/2012
New research into the potential link between parabens and breast cancer has found traces of the chemicals in breast tissue samples from all of the women in the study. Parabens are commonly used as preservatives in cosmetics, food products and pharmaceuticals...
Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - Malignancy Gene Signature Found
1/12/2012
According to an investigation published in the recent issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida have discovered that a malignancy-risk gene signature created for breast cancer has predictive and prognostic value for individuals suffering with early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...
Does Race And Gender Play Role? Obesity And Cancer Screening
1/12/2012
According to a recent study by researchers in Family and Community Medicine at the Thomas Jefferson University published in the current issue of the Journal of Obesity, obesity is associated with higher rates of prostate cancer screening amongst all races and ethnic differences as well as lower rates of cervical cancer screening predominantly in white women...
A Plan To Effectively Treat Psoriasis
1/12/2012
About 300 000 Swedes suffer from the difficult to treat disease, which manifests itself in scaly and often itchy patches on the skin. The reason is that cells divide without restraint as new blood vessels form in the deeper layers of the skin. An important component is the psoriasin protein (S100A7), which are abundant in psoriasis-affected skin but rarely in normal skin...