Industry News
Novel insights in MET-proto-oncogene might lead to optimizing cancer treatment
5/19/2015
The MET-proto-oncogene is involved in the pathogenesis of several tumors and therefore represents an interesting target for future therapies currently tested in dozens of clinical trials.
UCSF-led study explains how early childhood vaccination reduces leukemia risk
5/19/2015
Chronic infections push 'pre-leukemia' cells, common in newborns, into malignancyA team led by UCSF researchers has discovered how a commonly administered vaccine protects against acute...
Veracyte, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company pioneering the field of molecular cytology, has announced online publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of results from two large...
Study finds non-invasive colon cancer screening may be promising for African-Americans
5/19/2015
In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, physician-scientists at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine found that a...
Researchers quantify proportion of different genetic mutations in individual bowel cancers
5/19/2015
Bowel cancer is often driven by mutations in one of several different genes, and a patient can have a cancer with a different genetic make-up to another patient's cancer.
Organic nanoparticles, more lethal to tumors
5/19/2015
Carbon-based nanoparticles could be used to sensitize cancerous tumors to proton radiotherapy and induce more focused destruction of cancer cells, a new study showsRadiotherapy used in cancer...
New device successfully captures metastasis-associated circulating tumor cell clusters
5/19/2015
The latest version of a microfluidic device for capturing rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is the first designed specifically to capture clusters of two or more cells, rather than single cells.
Microchip captures clusters of circulating tumor cells -- NIH study
5/19/2015
Researchers have developed a microfluidic chip that can capture rare clusters of circulating tumor cells, which could yield important new insights into how cancer spreads.
ACP releases High Value Care screening advice for 5 common cancers
5/19/2015
American College of Physicians advice is for average risk adults without symptomsIn a paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP) issued advice for...
Lethal prostate cancer less common in men with asthma
5/19/2015
A study of nearly 48,000 men finds that those with a history of asthma were less likely to have a diagnosis of prostate cancer that had spread or to have died of the disease.