Cell metabolism discovery could spawn treatments for cancer or common cold
4/03/2014
Scientists at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have published the first study that explains how viruses reprogram the cells they invade to promote their continued growth within an organism.
Researchers identify likely culprit in metastasis of colon cancer
4/03/2014
While elevated PLAC8 levels were known to be associated with colon cancer, the researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville have now shown that the protein plays an active role in shifting normal cells lining the colon into a state that encourages metastasis.
Colon cancer a much greater risk for obese individuals
4/03/2014
Calorie control and frequent exercise are not only key to a healthy lifestyle, but a strategy to lower the risk for colon cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Obesity, rather than diet, causes changes in the colon that may lead to colorectal cancer, according to a study in mice by the National Institutes of Health. Paul Wade, Ph.D.
A new research report appearing in the April 2014 issue of The FASEB Journal explains why people with a rare balding condition called "atrichia with papular lesions" lose their hair, and it identifies a strategy for reversing this hair loss.
Recall and biopsy rates reduced by digital mammography
4/03/2014
According to a new study published online in the journal Radiology, population-based screening with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) is associated with lower recall and biopsy rates than screen film mammography (SFM), suggesting that FFDM may reduce the number of diagnostic workups and biopsies that do not lead to diagnosis of breast cancer.
Fertility drugs may not increase breast cancer risk, say researchers
4/03/2014
Past research has associated the use of fertility drugs with an increased risk of breast cancer. But a new study from the National Cancer Institute indicates that this may not be the case.The research was recently published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention - a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
In the transition to adult care, new tool helps young adults with sickle cell disease
4/03/2014
Child and adolescent hematologists at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have developed a tool to gauge how ready young adults with sickle cell disease are for a transition into adult care.
Adenoma detection rates linked to colorectal cancer and mortality
4/02/2014
A study of over 224,000 patients and more than 314,000 colonoscopies found that adenoma detection rates closely tracked the future risk of colorectal cancer. The study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.Colonoscopies screen for colorectal cancer by detecting early, curable cancers.
New general concept for the treatment of cancer
4/02/2014
A team of researchers from five Swedish universities, led by Karolinska Institutet and the Science for Life Laboratory, have identified a new way of treating cancer. The concept is presented in the journal Nature and is based on inhibiting a specific enzyme called MTH1, which cancer cells, unlike normal cells, require for survival.
Among men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer, daily use of the erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil, compared with placebo, did not prevent loss of erectile function, according to a study in JAMA. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common condition resulting from many causes, including prostate cancer treatment.