Tumors shrank or disappeared and disease progression was temporarily halted in 15 children with advanced neuroblastoma enrolled in a safety study of an experimental antibody produced at St.
Drug delivery method sneaks drugs into cancer cells before triggering release
5/13/2014
Biomedical engineering researchers have developed an anti-cancer drug delivery method that essentially smuggles the drug into a cancer cell before triggering its release.
Genetic counseling for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer often not received by high-risk women
5/13/2014
Mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes account for nearly 25 percent of hereditary breast cancers and most hereditary ovarian cancers, yet a study by cancer prevention and control researchers at...
Important insights into carcinoma-associated fibroblasts
5/13/2014
A new paper by a team of researchers led by Zachary T. Schafer, Coleman Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, offers...
Preventive health screening for low-income women: better or worse under new health care reform?
5/13/2014
When Massachusetts enacted its own statewide health insurance reform in 2006, low-income women transitioned from receiving free, federally subsidized screening for breast and cervical cancer and...
During surgery, recycling a patient's lost blood is better than using banked blood
5/13/2014
Patients whose own red blood cells are recycled and given back to them during heart surgery have healthier blood cells better able to carry oxygen where it is most needed compared to those who get...
Scientists identify 'high-priority' chemicals that may cause breast cancer
5/12/2014
Researchers from the Silent Spring Institute in Massachusetts have identified 17 'high-priority' chemicals that they say women should avoid to reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Potential for new diagnostic tools, therapies for melanoma
5/12/2014
Researchers at Oregon State University have identified a specific biochemical process that can cause normal and healthy skin cells to transform into cancerous melanoma cells, which should help...
Study provides potential target for cutting off growth of colon cancer stem cells
5/12/2014
A subset of immune cells directly target colon cancers, rather than the immune system, giving the cells the aggressive properties of cancer stem cells.
Tracking cancer cells circulating in the blood using florescent proteins
5/12/2014
After cancer spreads, finding and destroying malignant cells that circulate in the body is usually critical to patient survival.