Study implicates TET1 enzyme as a master regulator in cancer
12/01/2014
Mutations in the KRAS gene have long been known to cause cancer, and about one third of solid tumors have KRAS mutations or mutations in the KRAS pathway.
Possible route to new treatments discovered during research on a rare cancer
12/01/2014
Researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) discovered the unusual role of lactate in the metabolism of alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS), a rare, aggressive...
First steps for new breast cancer vaccine show promise
12/01/2014
A small-scale trial testing the safety of a new breast cancer vaccine in patients with metastatic breast cancer is safe and could slow cancer progression.
An Andalusian team of researchers led by the University of Granada has designed a drug that fights cancerogenic stem cells responsible for the onset and development of cancer, for relapse after...
Induced pluripotent stem cells made from patients with a form of blistering skin disease can be genetically corrected and used to grow back healthy skin cells in laboratory dishes, researchers at the...
Findings pave way for new lines of cancer research focused on detection and prevention
12/01/2014
Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals have uncovered an easily detectable, "pre-malignant" state in the blood that...
A promising experimental immunotherapy drug works best in patients whose immune defenses initially rally to attack the cancer but then are stymied by a molecular brake that shuts down the response...
Antacid cimetidine could be 1 of many common over-the-counter medicines to treat cancer
12/01/2014
A popular indigestion medication can increase survival in colorectal cancer, according to research published in ecancermedicalscience.
Treatment breakthrough for advanced bladder cancer
12/01/2014
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have made a breakthrough in developing a new therapy for advanced bladder cancer - for which there have been no major treatment advances in the past 30...
An enzyme that fixes broken DNA sometimes destroys it instead
12/01/2014
Enzymes inside cells that normally repair damaged DNA sometimes wreck it instead, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found.