Guidelines For Earlier Cancer Detection Established By New Stanford Model
11/18/2011
Tumors can grow for 10 years or longer before currently available blood tests will detect them, a new mathematical model developed by Stanford University School of Medicine scientists indicates. The analysis, which was restricted to ovarian tumors but is broadly applicable across all solid tumor types, was published online in Science Translational Medicine...
A Single Dried Blood Spot Can Now Be Used To Screen For A Range Of Clinical Conditions
11/18/2011
Scientists have developed a rapid method that can be used to simultaneously screen patients for a range of genetic and acquired clinical conditions from a single dried blood spot...
Glucose Necessary For Cancer Growth May Prove To Be Its Weak Link
11/18/2011
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered that cancer cells tap into a natural recycling system to obtain the energy they need to keep dividing...
Study Of Bereaved Children One Year After A Sibling's Death From Cancer
11/18/2011
The majority of children experience personal changes and changes in relationships one year after their sibling has died from cancer; however, positive and negative changes are not universal...
Breakthrough In Loading Gold Nanorods Into Cells Could Lead To New Cancer Treatment
11/18/2011
Rice University chemists have found a way to load more than 2 million tiny gold particles called nanorods into a single cancer cell. The breakthrough could speed development of cancer treatments that would use nanorods like tiny heating elements to cook tumors from the inside. The research appears online this week in the chemical journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition...
Public Health Officials Need To Give More Attention To Needs Of People With Blood Disorders
11/18/2011
Public health should focus not only on reducing the burden of common diseases but also address the needs of people with blood disorders , experts say in a supplement to December's American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Even relatively common blood disorders fly below the public health system's radar with no established mechanisms for surveillance, supplement editors Scott D...
Breast Cancer Progression - PBX1 Is Identified As A New Pioneer Factor
11/17/2011
According to a study published in November in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, investigators at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center discovered that the presence of a novel pioneer factor (PBX1) in breast cancer cells can direct the response to estrogen...
Massive HPV And Rubella Vaccine Campaign For Girls And Women Globally
11/17/2011
The GAVI Alliance Board is to move towards the vaccination of up to two million girls and women in nine countries against HPV (human papillomavirus) and rubella over the next four years. GAVI is a charity which aims to save children's lives and protect people's health "by increasing access to immunization in poor countries"...
Jakafi (ruxolitinib) Approved For Bone Marrow Disease Myelofibrosis, US FDA
11/17/2011
Jakafi (ruxolitinib) has been approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for the treatment of myelofibrosis, a serious bone marrow disease that disrupts the body's normal production of blood cells. The FDA says this is the first drug to be approved for this condition...
Prostate Cancer Screening Carried Out On 20% Of Males Aged Over 75 Years, Australia
11/17/2011
The Cancer Council NSW will present evidence of research at the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA) Annual Scientific Meeting that GPs were prescribing tests to screen men above the age of 75 years for prostate cancer, despite the fact that there is likely to be no benefit...