Cancer Research

Fighting Cancer With A 'Nano Cocktail'

 Researchers from UC San Diego, Santa Barbara and MIT have developed a "cocktail" of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill cancerous tumors. The team says their work, appeari ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2010 - 3:36pm

Eat Pomegranates To Prevent Breast Cancer

Fruits that contain anti-aromatase phytochemicals, such as pomegranates, may reduce the incidence of hormone-dependent breast cancer, according to research published in the January issue of Cancer Prevention Research. The authors say that pomegranate is en ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2010 - 7:04pm

Green Tea May Reduce Lung Cancer Risk For Smokers

Drinking green tea could modulate the effects of smoking on lung cancer, suggests a hospital-based, randomized study presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer. Researchers enrolled 170 patients with lung cancer and 34 ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2010 - 7:07pm

Protein Kinase Inhibitors Hault Skin Cancer Growth

 A new study conducted by Loyola University researchers could lead to new treatments for skin cancer that would shrink the tumors with a class of drugs called protein kinase inhibitors. The drugs would work by turning on a gene called protein kinase C (PKC ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2010 - 1:29pm

Cancer Stem Cells Stifle Immune Response To Glioblastoma Multiforme

Cancer-initiating stem cells that launch glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal type of brain tumor, also suppress an immune system attack on the disease, say scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. In a paper featured in th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2010 - 2:48pm

Researchers Expand Cord Blood Progenitor Cells For Leukemia Treatment

Writing  in Nature Medicine, scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington say they have demonstrated how to increase the number of  progenitor cells capable of rapid myeloid engraftment after cord blood transp ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2010 - 4:07pm

HPV Screening Could Reduce Cervical Cancer Rates

Results from a study recently published in the Lancet Oncology found that testing for high-risk types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA is significantly more effective in preventing invasive cervical cancer than cytology (Pap testing) alone. Two rounds ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2011 - 10:23pm

Cancer Genome Atlas Identifies Distinct Subtypes Of The Brain Cancer Glioblastoma Multiforme

Introduction The most common form of  brain tumor in adults, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is not in fact a single disease but appears to be four distinct molecular subtypes, according to a study by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network. The re ...

Article - flower 5 - Jan 25 2010 - 2:11pm

How Gliomas Outsmart Cancer-Killing Drugs

University of California, San Diego researchers say they have shown one way deadly brain tumors called gliomas evade drugs aimed at blocking the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a cell signaling protein that is crucial for tumor growth. They also s ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2010 - 6:34pm

How Obesity Promotes Liver Cancer

Epidemiological studies indicate that obesity comes with an increased risk of developing cancer, and especially certain types such as liver cancer. Now, a group of researchers reporting in Cell say they can explain how obesity acts as a "bona fide tum ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2010 - 7:48pm