Factors That May Block Metastasis Contained In Some Tumors
11/16/2011
Scientists are another step closer to understanding what drives tumor metastasis, as laboratory models suggest there are factors inside tumors that can slow their own growth. In a recent issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Raúl A. Ruggiero, Ph.D...
Retinoblastoma Care Should Include Genetic Evaluation
11/16/2011
Results of a study by Baylor College of Medicine physicians underscore the important role that clinical genetic evaluation can have in the management plan of patients with retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer of the eye...
Researchers Find Surprising Role For Enzyme In Tumor Cell Division And New Drug To Combat It
11/16/2011
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center have identified a new drug discovery approach enabling the destruction of the most highly proliferative tumors...
Alcohol Not Recommended For Girls With Family History Of Breast Cancer
11/16/2011
Adding to research linking alcohol to breast cancer risk, a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that adolescent girls with a family history of breast disease - either cancer or the benign lesions that can become cancer - have a higher risk of developing benign breast disease as young women than other girls...
How Bloodstream Platelets Help Cancer Cells Metastasize
11/15/2011
The vast majority of deaths from cancer are due to secondary tumors, about 90% of them. Secondary tumors are those from a metastasized cancer; one that has spread to other parts of the body - a tumor that is not in the original tumor site. For cancer cells to break free from the original tumor, they need a bit of help from other cells around them...
Bonded Asbestos No Longer Considered Safe, Say Experts
11/15/2011
The rise in the number of natural disaster means we cannot consider bonded asbestos as safe anymore, cancer experts in Perth said in the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia's Annual Scientific Meeting...
Gene That Signals "Stop!" To Skin Cancer Found
11/15/2011
Scientists have found a gene whose absence may be an important driver for a common form of skin cancer known as squamous cell cancer (SCC), because its presence signals "Stop!" to cell proliferation. The international team found the gene, called Grhl3, is also virtually absent in SCC that arises in other tissues, including head and neck cancers, that often have a poor prognosis...
Colorectal Cancer-Screening - CT Colonography Usage Growing Much Faster Than Colonoscopy
11/15/2011
A study published Online First in The Lancet Oncology shows that CT colonography as an additional primary colorectal cancer-screening test could result in a significantly higher participation in screening programs than conventional colonoscopy. Colorectal cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer deaths in Europe...
Global Prostate Cancer Risk Linked To Contraceptive Pill Usage
11/15/2011
According to an investigation published in BMJ Open, the use of the contraceptive pill is linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer worldwide. In developed countries prostate cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer among males and the use of the contraceptive pill has significantly increased over the past 4 decades...
Oral Contraceptive Use Tied To Prostate Cancer
11/15/2011
There is a significant link between use of oral contraceptives or birth control pills and the incidence of prostate cancer, said researchers who set out to investigate the suggestion that byproducts of these drugs get into the environment, for instance the water supply, and lead to an increase in low level estrogen exposure in affected populations...