Bowel cancer biomarker testing lags behind other major cancers
3/05/2015
A report released on 4 March 2015, entitled 'The Testing Gap', has revealed a disparity between treatment biomarker testing across three of the main cancers in the UK: bowel, breast and lung cancer.
Long-term follow-up of benign thyroid nodules shows favorable prognosis
3/05/2015
After five years of follow-up, a majority of asymptomatic, benign thyroid nodules exhibited no significant change in size, or actually decreased in size, and diagnoses of thyroid cancer were rare...
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is offering a clinical trial examining the investigational treatment known as ONC201 in patients with solid tumors whose cancer no longer responds to standard...
'Stem cell' test could identify most aggressive breast cancers
3/05/2015
Testing breast cancer cells for how closely they resemble stem cells could identify women with the most aggressive disease, a new study suggests.
UCLA research shows promising method for correcting genetic code to treat sickle cell disease
3/05/2015
UCLA stem cell researchers have shown that a novel stem cell gene therapy method could one day provide a one-time, lasting treatment for the most common inherited blood disorder in the United...
Researchers identify genes responsible for lung tumors
3/05/2015
The lung transcription factor Nkx2-1 is an important gene regulating lung formation and normal respiratory functions after birth.
Lycopene may ward off kidney cancer in older women
3/05/2015
A higher intake by postmenopausal women of the natural antioxidant lycopene, found in foods like tomatoes, watermelon and papaya, may lower the risk of renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer.
Could gout reduce the risk of Alzheimer's?
3/05/2015
Patients with gout may have a 24% lower risk of Alzheimer's, according to new research, and it may be down to a neuroprotective effect of uric acid accumulation in the blood.
Researchers identify genes responsible for lung tumors
3/05/2015
The lung transcription factor Nkx2-1 is an important gene regulating lung formation and normal respiratory functions after birth.
Lycopene may ward off kidney cancer in older women
3/05/2015
A higher intake by postmenopausal women of the natural antioxidant lycopene, found in foods like tomatoes, watermelon and papaya, may lower the risk of renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer.