Advanced abdominal cancer: 20 years of data shows treatment technique improvement
4/23/2014
Meaningful long-term survival is possible for selected patients suffering from advanced cancer of the abdomen when treated with cytoreductive surgery with Hyperthermic IntraPeritoneal Chemotherapy...
How peripheral pain occurs in nerves suggests new targets for pain relief
4/23/2014
Scientists have identified new pain relief targets that could be used to provide relief from chemotherapy-induced pain.
'Anxiety over false-positive mammogram results is temporary'
4/23/2014
The anxiety that comes with receiving a false-positive mammogram result is only temporary, researchers say, and it actually makes women more likely to undergo screening in future.
Chronic prostate inflammation tied to nearly double risk of prostate cancer
4/22/2014
Chronic inflammation in benign prostate tissue is linked to nearly double the risk of having prostate cancer, and high-grade prostate cancer in particular.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Commission (EC) have granted Orphan Drug Designation to volasertib for acute...
Combination microbicide gel can prevent multiple virus transmission in vagina/rectum in animal model
4/22/2014
Population Council scientists and their partners have found that their proprietary microbicide gel is safe, stable, and can prevent the transmission of multiple sexually transmitted infections (STIs)...
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered an unexpected phenomenon in the organs that produce sperm in fruit flies: When a certain kind of stem cell is killed off experimentally, another group of...
An international team led by researchers at UC Davis has shown that the cyclin B1/Cdk1 protein complex, which plays a key role in cell division, also boosts the mitochondrial activity to power that...
According to a new study, endoscopists' recommendations for timing of surveillance colonoscopy in average-risk patients with one to two small polyps are consistent with guideline recommendations in...
Increased risk for colorectal cancer following radiation therapy for cervical cancer
4/22/2014
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston are the first to recommend that young women treated with radiation for cervical cancer should begin colorectal cancer screening...