Confirmation That Vitamin D Acts As A Protective Agent Against The Advance Of Colon Cancer
8/17/2011
A study conducted by VHIO researchers confirms that a lack of vitamin D increases the aggressiveness of colon cancer. The indication that vitamin D and its derivatives have a protective effect against various types of cancer is not new...
Thyroid Cancer Treatment Varies By Hospital
8/17/2011
Where thyroid cancer patients go for care plays a large role in whether they receive radioactive iodine treatment, a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds. While the size and severity of the tumor also played a role in treatment, researchers found unexplained hospital factors had a significant impact on radioactive iodine use...
Chicago's South Side Suffers Most From Unhealthy Neighborhoods
8/17/2011
The south and southwest sides of Chicago suffer the most in terms of residents' health and access to basic health resources, according to a new study of 77 Chicago neighborhoods...
Promising New Prostate Cancer Screening Test
8/17/2011
A new prostate screening test developed by AnalizaDx, Inc...
Relationship Between 2 Mutated Genes Can Dictate Outcome Of Prostate Cancer
8/17/2011
Of the 250,000 American men who will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, very few of them - about 1 percent - will develop lethal, metastatic disease. Finding a way to distinguish between this small cohort and the majority of patients who will develop an indolent, non-lethal form of prostate cancer is a key goal in prostate cancer research...
Key Oncoprotein In Merkel Cell Carcinoma Discovered By Cancer Researchers
8/17/2011
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) have identified the oncoprotein that allows a common and usually harmless virus to transform healthy cells into a rare but deadly skin cancer called Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC)...
Patients With Extranodal Lymphoma Of The Head And Neck Benefit From IMRT
8/17/2011
Lymphoma is a cancer that affects organs of the immune system, including the lymph nodes. In a subtype of the disease called extranodal lymphoma, tumors arise in non-lymphoid organs, such as the tongue and tonsils...
Overactive Immune Response Silenced By New Anti-Inflammatory Agents
8/17/2011
A new way to fight inflammation uses molecules called polymers to mop up the debris of damaged cells before the immune system becomes abnormally active, researchers at Duke University Medical Center report...
Inhibiting Key Enzymes Kills Difficult Tumor Cells In Mice
8/17/2011
Tumors that do not respond to chemotherapy are the target of a cancer therapy that prevents the function of two enzymes in mouse tumor cells, according to Pennsylvania medical researchers. "We've known for well over a decade that when tumors become hypoxic they become resistant to chemotherapy and radiotherapy," said Wafik S. El-Deiry, M.D. Ph.D...
Green Tea Compound Is Effective In Treating Genetic Disorder And Two Types Of Tumors
8/17/2011
A compound found in green tea shows great promise for the development of drugs to treat two types of tumors and a deadly congenital disease. The discovery is the result of research led by Principal Investigator, Dr. Thomas Smith at The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and his colleagues at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia...