Gene Therapy Kills Breast Cancer Stem Cells, Boosts Chemotherapy
9/13/2011
Gene therapy delivered directly to a particularly stubborn type of breast cancer cell causes the cells to self-destruct, lowers chance of recurrence and helps increase the effectiveness of some types of chemotherapy, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported in the Sept. 13 edition of Cancer Cell...
AACR To Host Second Frontiers In Basic Cancer Research Conference
9/13/2011
The American Association for Cancer Research will host its Second AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel from Sept. 14-18, 2011...
Women Who Inherit BRCA Gene Mutations Develop Cancer Earlier Than Their Ancestors
9/13/2011
A new analysis has found that women who develop certain hereditary cancers develop them at earlier ages than women in the previous generation. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results point to the importance of tracking younger ages of cancer diagnosis to determine when to provide counseling, screening, and treatment services...
HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (HemaQuest), a biotechnology company focused on developing small molecule therapeutics to treat hemoglobin disorders, announced that it has completed enrollment in a randomized multi-dose Phase 2 study of HQK-1001 in patients with sickle cell disease...
Fish Oil Supplements Can Undermine Chemotherapy Effectiveness
9/12/2011
Patients receiving virtually all types of chemotherapy have been advised not to take fish oil supplements because they can make chemotherapy drugs ineffective, researchers from the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands wrote in the journal Cancer Cell. Fish oils contain two fatty acids which make the tumors resistant to treatment...
Daughters With BRCA Gene Diagnosed With Breast Cancer 8 Years Younger Than Their Mothers Were
9/12/2011
A female today who has a BRCA gene mutation is being diagnosed with breast and ovarian cancer about eight years earlier than their mothers or aunts were, researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported in the journal Cancer. The authors say their findings could impact on how females at very high risk of breast cancer are counseled or screened in years to come...
Daughters With BRCA Gene Diagnosed With Breast Cancer 8 Years Younger Than Their Mothers Were
9/12/2011
A female today who has a BRCA gene mutation is being diagnosed with breast and ovarian cancer about eight years earlier than their mothers or aunts were, researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported in the journal Cancer. The authors say their findings could impact on how females at very high risk of breast cancer are counseled or screened in years to come...
Bowel Cancer Death Rates Vary Widely Across UK
9/12/2011
The rate of deaths due to bowel cancer varies by as much as three times between the lowest and the highest rate areas of the UK, a fact that must not be ignored says the cancer charity Beating Bowel Cancer, which also considers that even the lowest death rate is still too high and over 5,000 lives could be saved every year if more people were screened and diagnosed earlier...
Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Decreased Doses Of Cervical Cancer Vaccine
9/12/2011
Fewer than three doses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervarix may be just as effective as the standard three-dose regimen when it comes to preventive measures against cervical cancer, according to a new study published September 9 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
Potential Therapy For Tumor-Associated Epilepsy
9/12/2011
Glioma, one of the most deadly and common types of brain tumor, is often associated with seizures, but the origins of these seizures and effective treatments for them have been elusive...