New animal models faithfully reproduce the tumor of each patient
1/26/2015
The implementation of patient cancer cells in the same organ of mice can reproduce very accurately the tumor evolution and malignancy.
Head and neck cancers in young adults are more likely to be a result of inherited factors
1/26/2015
An article published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology pools data from 25 case-control studies and conducts separate analyses to show that head and neck cancers (HNC) in young...
Noisy data facilitates Dartmouth investigation of breast cancer gene expression
1/26/2015
Researchers from Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, led by Casey S. Greene, PhD, reported in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing on the use of denoising autoencoders (DAs) to effectively extract...
High blood calcium linked with increased risk of premature death in dialysis patients
1/26/2015
Elevated blood levels of calcium and phosphorus are linked with an increased risk of premature death in kidney disease patients on dialysis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the...
Key factor discovered in the formation of metastases in melanoma
1/26/2015
Patients who visit the doctor because of malignant skin cancer often go too late - the aggressive cancer has already formed numerous metastases in their bodies.
New animal models faithfully reproduce the tumor of each patient
1/26/2015
The implementation of patient cancer cells in the same organ of mice can reproduce very accurately the tumor evolution and malignancy.
Incidence of colorectal cancer increasing in young adults
1/26/2015
The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) among young adults ages 20-39 years has increased during the past 20-30 years, despite declining rates of CRC for the U.S. population overall.
Researchers find new way to combat resistant cancers
1/25/2015
A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a new platform that can rapidly identify effective drug combinations for lung cancer patients whose tumors have stopped...
Targeting DNA repair pathways could provide new treatment options for pediatric neuroblastoma
1/25/2015
Researchers at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital have identified a promising new target for developing new therapies for kids with high-risk neuroblastoma, according to a new...
It's a virus that is responsible for almost all cases of cervical cancer but a new study by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers indicates that only about half of the girls...