Loyola Receives Grant For Pediatric Leukemia Research
10/04/2011
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) received a $100,000 grant to support research to treat an aggressive form of pediatric leukemia. The grant, which was funded by Hyundai's Hope on Wheels program, was presented to Loyola during a special ceremony with cancer patients and their parents at Loyola University Medical Center...
Higher Radiation Dose Does Not Help Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer
10/04/2011
A higher dose of radiation (74 Gy) does not improve overall survival for non-small cell lung cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes, compared to the standard radiation dose (60 Gy), according to an interim analysis of a late-breaking randomized study presented at the plenary session, October 3, 2011, at the 53rdAnnual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)...
Vitamin D Deficiency Common In Cancer Patients
10/04/2011
More than three-quarters of cancer patients have insufficient levels of vitamin D (25-hydroxy-vitamin D) and the lowest levels are associated with more advanced cancer, according to a study presented on October 2, 2011, at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)...
A Noninvasive Deep Brain Treatment For Essential Tremor?
10/04/2011
In a presentation at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons today, University of Virginia neurosurgeon W. Jeffrey Elias, MD reported that preliminary results of a pilot clinical trial indicate that MR-guided focused ultrasound has the potential to safely and effectively control essential tremor (ET), a common neurological condition that affects 10 million Americans...
Testing For Breast Cancer Mutations, Not For Everyone
10/04/2011
Too many average-risk women and too few high-risk women receive genetic counseling and testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, research shows. Experts at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center share advice to help patients and their doctors better evaluate family history and make more sound decisions about who should be tested...
Cell Movement Provides Clues To Aggressive Breast Cancer
10/04/2011
Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a specific molecule that alters how breast cancer cells move. This affects the cells' ability to spread or metastasize to distant parts of the body, the hallmark of deadly, aggressive cancer...
Study Shows Dramatic Rise In Incidence Of Oral Cancer Type Linked To HPV
10/04/2011
A new study of oropharyngeal cancer suggests that dramatic increases in U.S. incidence of the cancer and survival since 1984 can be attributed to infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV)...
Combination HPV Diagnostic Test For Head And Neck Cancer Outperformed Other Tests
10/04/2011
Researchers have determined that a combination of P16 immunohistochemistry and DNA qPCR to test for viral E6 can accurately determine the oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, a form of head and neck cancer, which derive from HPV16, according to a study published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
IRB Barcelona Spin-off To Develop A Diagnostic Kit And New Treatments For Metastasis
10/04/2011
Roger Gomis, ICREA researcher at the Institute of Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has set up the spin-off Supragen. With the support of IRB Barcelona and the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), this initiative is the second biotech company to emerge from the institute since June and the third since this centre was set up towards the end of 2005...
Study Provides Insight To The Earliest Stages Of Some Cancers
10/03/2011
A novel technique that enables scientists to measure and document tumor-inducing changes in DNA is providing new insight into the earliest events involved in the formation of leukemias, lymphomas and sarcomas, and could potentially lead to the discovery of ways to stop those events...