Early Morning Smokers Have Increased Risk Of Lung And Head And Neck Cancers
8/09/2011
Two new studies have found that smokers who tend to take their first cigarette soon after they wake up in the morning may have a higher risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers than smokers who refrain from lighting up right away...
Small Molecules Hit It Big New Therapeutic Approaches Against Viruses, Bacteria, And Cancer
8/09/2011
Scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence led by biochemist Volker Haucke in collaboration with colleagues from Australia and the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) in Berlin have developed small molecules that inhibit the internalization of important signaling molecules but also of pathogenic organisms such as the immunod...
Improved Radical Surgery Techniques Provide Positive Outcomes For Bladder Cancer Patients
8/09/2011
Bladder cancer patients who have radical surgery at university hospitals can benefit from excellent local control of the disease, acceptable clinical outcomes and low death rates, according to research in the August issue of the urology journal BJUI...
New Brain Tumour Gene Identified For Meningiomas
8/09/2011
The causes of brain tumours have been hard to discern in most cases. But Umeå researchers have previously identified an inherited predisposition for brain tumours, and now, in an international collaboration, they have also discovered a genetic variation that increases the risk of a certain type of brain tumour, called meningiomas...
Small Molecules Found To Play Complex Roles In Cancer Metastasis
8/09/2011
While they may be small in size, a family of tiny molecules called microRNAs could potentially play a large role in the process of cancer metastasis, or the spread of cancer from one area of the body to another...
Those Who Smoke As Soon As They Wake Up Have Much Higher Cancer Risk
8/08/2011
If you are a smoker who lights up within 30 minutes of waking up in the morning, your risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers is considerably higher than that of smokers who wait more than one hour, researchers from Pennn State College of Medicine in Hershey reported in the journal Cancer...
Exercise Benefits Cancer Survivors, New Report
8/08/2011
If exercise were a cancer drug, it would be a blockbuster, appears to be the conclusion of a new review on the benefits of physical activity to people surviving and living beyond cancer...
High Risk Ovarian Cancer Gene Found In Landmark Study
8/08/2011
Women with a faulty copy of a DNA repair gene called RAD51D have a 1 in 11 risk of developing ovarian cancer compared to 1 in 70 in the general population, according to a landmark Cancer Research UK-funded study led by Professor Nazneen Rahman at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) published in the 7 August online issue of Nature Genetics...
Loss Of A Gene Regulator Is Crucial For A Rare Type Of Skin Cancer
8/08/2011
Malignant Sezary syndrome is characterized by the reproduction of a special type of white blood cell in the skin of male and female patients. In contrast to most other skin lymphomas, patients with Sezary syndrome manifest not only skin contamination but also contamination of blood and lymph nodes by degenerate T cells even at the onset of the disease...
A new study from researchers in Indiana reports that use of a retroflexion technique in the right side of the colon during colonoscopy is safe and results in the detection of additional adenomatous (precancerous) polyps in approximately four percent of patients. This result is comparable to that expected from a second colonoscopy in the forward view...