Australia's Cancer Burden - New Insights
12/12/2011
According to a study published early online in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, deaths from cancer have steadily decreased over the past 25 years in Australia while cancer incidence rates have risen. In Australian, cancer has the greatest overall impact on individual's health. Before the age of 85, one in two Australians will develop cancer and 1 in 5 will die...
Breast Cancer Drug Abandoned By 36% Of Patients Due To Side Effects
12/12/2011
36% of post-menopausal breast cancer patients who take aromatase inhibitors do not complete their treatment, because the drug's side effects are so unpleasant, researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium...
New Research Finding Presented At American Society Of Hematology Annual Meeting
12/12/2011
Researchers from Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented new research findings in 25 presentations at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) at the San Diego Convention Center...
Pluripotent Stem Cells From Pigs May Be Safer Than Previously Thought
12/12/2011
Pig stem cell research conducted by two animal scientists at the University of Georgia reveals a better way to determine the safety of future stem cell therapies than rodent-based models...
People in Northern Ireland have a lower risk of developing some cancers than those living in the Republic of Ireland, according to the All-Ireland Cancer Atlas - a collaborative publication by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry at Queen's University Belfast and the National Cancer Registry in Cork...
The active ingredient boceprevir has been available since the middle of 2011 as a treatment for chronic hepatitis C of genotype 1...
In Newly Diagnosed Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Circulating Tumor Cells Not Linked To Survival
12/12/2011
The presence of circulating tumor cells in the blood appears to have no relationship to survival in women who have just been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, according to new research from Fox Chase Cancer Center. However, the research shows that these stray tumor cells may signal that the disease has spread to other parts of the body, even before imaging reveals any metastases...
Side Effects Of Breast Cancer Drugs Can Be So Bad Women End Treatment And Risk Return Of Cancer
12/12/2011
Why do so many postmenopausal women who are treated for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer quit using drugs that help prevent the disease from recurring? The first study to actually ask the women themselves -- as well as the largest, most scientifically rigorous study to examine the question -- reports 36 percent of women quit early because of the medications' side effects, wh...
Cancer-Related Pathway Reveals Potential Treatment Target For Rare Pediatric Disease Cherubism
12/12/2011
Cancer researchers studying genetic mutations that cause leukemia have discovered a connection to the rare disease cherubism, an inherited facial bone disorder in children. The link is the enzyme Tankyrase and its pivotal role in switching on or off the protein that controls two known cancer genes. In normal cells, the protein is vital for bone development...
Breaking Oncogene's Hold On Cancer Cell Provides New Treatment Direction
12/12/2011
Just as people's bodies and minds can become addicted to substances such as drugs, caffeine, alcohol, their cancers can become addicted to certain genes that insure their continued growth and dominance. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have developed ways to exploit the addictions of cancers to kill them without harming normal tissues...