Cancer Research

Vindication for pale high-schoolers

Vindication! For all of you fake-bake tanners in high school who spent countless hours and money in tanning beds thinking you looked so much better with tan skin, there is an additional layer of medical support to line my "I told you so" folder. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 29 2009 - 9:00am

Schistosoma Haematobium Parasite Linked To Tumors

Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium) is a parasitic flatworm that infects millions of people, mostly in the developing world, and is associated with high incidence of bladder cancer although why is not clear. Two works by Portuguese researchers just o ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Aug 1 2009 - 8:09pm

Cancer Mortality Is Declining, And The Public Doesn’t Know It

Cancer impacts millions of lives for the worse every year. Despite this difficult reality, it appears that we are becoming increasing successful in our efforts to stem the tide of patients who fall victim as time goes on. According to a recently published ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2009 - 6:15pm

Evolutionary Game Theory: A New Approach For Cancer Treatment

A new paradigm in the way we look at cancer with important implications on how we treat it is about to be published in the British Journal of Cancer by Portuguese, Belgian and American researchers. The group use a mathematical approach to reveal how- by ch ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Aug 31 2009 - 10:01am

Latex bearing plants have great medicinal potential

The latex bearing plants Euphorbia antiquorum, E. antisyphilitica, E. caducifolia, E. neerifolia, E. nivulia, E. royleana, Calotropis procera, C. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 1 2009 - 5:30pm

Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) an Indian holy plant has vast medicinal properties: Ethnobotany.

 Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) has potential as anticancer plant. The term ethnobotany was first used by Harshberger in 1885 and its scope was much elaborated later by Ford in 1978 and Faulks in 1958 (Trivedi,2002). Studies of medicinal plant based on ancient li ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 1 2009 - 10:00pm

Suck It Linus (Pauling)

Antioxidants cause cancer. Or at least that is the headline you may read in some less reputable sources of science news, reporting this study out this week in Nature. Before you go rushing off to toss out your Teavana supercharged antioxidant green tea and ...

Article - Michael White - Sep 3 2009 - 9:20am

Are Cancer Research Priorities Too Focused On Drug Development?

Cancer research needs more basic research likely to have the biggest impact on combating the disease in the next few decades but currently research funds are focused on new drug development, says professor Richard Sullivan of the King's Health Partner ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2009 - 10:43am

MYB- New Cancer Gene Discovered

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg say they have discovered a new cancer gene related to adenoid cystic carcinoma,  a slow-growing but deadly form of cancer. The research group can now show that the gene is found in 100% of these tumors, which m ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2009 - 9:47am

New Treatment Option Emerging For Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Patients with early stage, non-small cell lung cancer who are not able to undergo surgery, now have a highly effective treatment option. Physicians say that option, radical stereotactic radiosurgery performed with CyberKnife, leads to a 100 percent overall ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2009 - 8:05pm