Researchers Find Coupling Of Proteins Promotes Glioblastoma Development
10/22/2011
Two previously unassociated proteins known to be overly active in a variety of cancers bind together to ignite and sustain malignant brain tumors, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports this week in the journal Cancer Cell...
Preventing Cancer Development Inside The Cell Cycle
10/22/2011
Researchers from the NYU Cancer Institute, an NCI-designated cancer center at NYU Langone Medical Center, have identified a cell cycle-regulated mechanism behind the transformation of normal cells into cancerous cells. The study shows the significant role that protein networks can play in a cell leading to the development of cancer...
Reasoning used in many highly cited cancer publications to support the relevance of animal and test tube experiments to human cancer is questionable, according to a study by researchers from Universite Libre de Bruxelles published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology on October 20th 2011...
Chavez's Ex-physician Leaves Venezuela After Saying He May Have Only Two Years To Live
10/22/2011
Dr. Salvador Navarrete, who used to be President Hugo Chavez's personal physician has left Venezuela after telling a Mexican weekly journal that Chavez would likely die within the next two years. Medical personnel reported that police came to visit his consultancy in his absence and searched through manual and computer files. Dr...
Breast Cancer Risk Higher If Estrogen Or Testosterone Levels Higher
10/21/2011
The risk of breast cancer is greater if levels of hormones estrogen or testosterone are higher in post-menopausal women, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital reported in Breast Cancer Research, an open-access BioMed Central journal. The researchers examined six different growth and sex hormones and discovered that higher levels raised breast cancer risk by 16% for each one...
Signalling Protein VEGF Helps Renew Stem Cells In Common Skin Cancer
10/21/2011
New research from Belgium, published in Nature this week, reveals that VEGF, a signalling protein that is known to regulate the formation of new blood vessels, has a dual role in helping cancer cells grow and form tumors in skin squamous cell carcinoma, a common cancer in humans...
Signalling Protein VEGF Helps Renew Stem Cells In Common Skin Cancer
10/21/2011
New research from Belgium, published in Nature this week, reveals that VEGF, a signalling protein that is known to regulate the formation of new blood vessels, has a dual role in helping cancer cells grow and form tumors in skin squamous cell carcinoma, a common cancer in humans...
Huge Economic Burden Of Melanoma In The USA
10/21/2011
According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year between 2004 to 2006, over 45,000 cases of melanoma were reported in 45 states and the District of Columbia. In the U.S. skin cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer...
Huge Economic Burden Of Melanoma In The USA
10/21/2011
According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year between 2004 to 2006, over 45,000 cases of melanoma were reported in 45 states and the District of Columbia. In the U.S. skin cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer...
According to an announcement made by The European Association of Echocardiography (EAE), the EAE will be collaborating with the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in order to issue guidelines on the benefits of serial echocardiographic evaluations and the potential impact of more advanced ultrasound technologies, in particular Speckle Tracking Echocardiography, in patie...