Saffron Shows Promise In Preventing Liver Cancer
8/23/2011
New research suggests that saffron provides a significant chemopreventive effect against liver cancer in animal models. When saffron was administered to rats with diethylnitrosamine (DEN)-induced liver cancer an inhibition of cell proliferation and stimulation of apoptosis was observed...
HPV Test Better Than Cytology For Screening For Cervical Cancer
8/23/2011
A study published online first in The Lancelot Oncology recommends that HPV (Human papillomavirus) testing should become the primary screening tool to rule out cervical cancer, with cytology reserved for triage of women who test positive for HPV, deciding which women need immediate colposcopy...
HPV Vaccine Cervarix Also Protects From Anal Cancer
8/23/2011
GlaxoSmithKline's bivalent HPV vaccine Cervarix offers strong protection against anal cancer, even though it is used as a routine vaccination for girls against cervical cancer, researchers reported in The Lancet Oncology. Significant effects were noted in women who received the vaccine before exposure to the virus...
Adcetris May Cost $4,500 Per Vial, Or Over $100,000 For A Course Of Lymphoma Treatment
8/22/2011
Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin), recently FDA approved for Hodgkin lymphoma and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma, may cost over $100,000 for a course of treatment, or $4,500 per vial. According to marketers and manufacturers, Seattle Genetics, patients typically need three vials in one dose, and from seven to nine doses per course of treatment - a cost range of from $94,500 to $121,500...
First Computerized Genome-Scale Model Of Cancer Cell Metabolism
8/22/2011
Scientists are constantly on the hunt for treatments that can selectively target cancer cells, leaving other cells in our bodies unharmed. Now, Prof. Eytan Ruppin of Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Sackler Faculty of Medicine and his colleagues Prof. Eyal Gottlieb of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, UK, and Dr...
On The Trail Of A Treatment For Cancer Of The Immune System
8/22/2011
Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen have become the first in the world to regulate a special receptor or bio-antenna that plays a vital part when the Epstein Barr herpes virus infects us and when this infection appears to be mutating into cancer of the immune system...
Link Between Drop In Hormone Therapy Use And Reduction In Mammogram Rates
8/22/2011
A new analysis has found that a decline in hormone therapy (HT) use among women aged 50 to 64 years is linked with lower mammogram rates among these women...
Powerful X-ray technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) national laboratories is revealing new insights into diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to the swine flu, and, most recently, enabled the discovery of a groundbreaking new drug treatment for malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer...
Whole Ginger Extract Has Promising Anti-Prostate Cancer Potential
8/22/2011
In a first of its kind study, assessing anti-cancer properties of ginger as a whole instead of the plant's individual components, scientists at Georgia State University have discovered, that whole ginger extract has promising cancer-preventing activity in prostate cancer...
Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals How Cells Prepare To Interact With The World
8/22/2011
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that structural elements in the cell play a crucial role in organizing the motion of cell-surface receptors, proteins that enable cells to receive signals from other parts of the organism...