Cancer Research

No More IV? Photovoltaic Chemotherapy Takes The Stage

Chemotherapy is extremely valuable in killing cancer cells but also takes surrounding tissue with it.   Micro-scaled photovoltaic devices may one day be used to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly to tumors, rendering chemotherapy less toxic to surroun ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2010 - 4:02am

Treating Skin Cancer With Light

Can skin cancer be treated with light? Scientists from the University of California, Irvine say they can treat skin cancer with light- the ability to image cancerous lesions using LEDs might advance a technique for treating cancer called photodynamic thera ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2010 - 12:48pm

Can The Cancer Vaccine Sipuleucel-T Sip The Hell Out Of Cancers?

Sipuleucel-T (Provenge)  was the first therapeutic cancer vaccine to be approved by the FDA for Prostate cancers. Sipuleucel-T consists of Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) including Antigen presenting cells (APCs) was developed by Dendreon. The ...

Article - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Nov 8 2010 - 5:59pm

Will Black Raspberries Help Prevent Colon Cancer?

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in both men and women in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute.   But since cancer is a mutation, risk factors for it can never be elimina ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2010 - 1:35pm

How far are we from personalized medicine?

Cancer treatment has reached a stage where we have begun to realize that same hat can not fit everybody's head. Genetic mismatches at the nucleic-acid level, known as point mutations vary from person to person, calling for the need of 'personaliz ...

Blog Post - Raghuveer Ramacha... - Nov 18 2010 - 11:34pm

Cancer research surprises

Many people would admit to not understanding cancer well, but fewer people would admit to not understanding evolution well.  Here are some challenges to our understanding of both. Starvation may help cancer treatment. “As little as 48 hours of starvation ...

Blog Post - Rafe Furst - Nov 22 2010 - 11:30am

Is cancer curable?

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix structure recently called for a  back to basics approach  in dealing with cancer.  In previous post threads I’ve discussed cancer’s complexity and in particular the confounding and scary implications of  s ...

Blog Post - Rafe Furst - Nov 22 2010 - 12:05pm

Making A Personalized Colorectal Cancer Vaccine- From The Patient's Tumor

Researchers have hit on a new way to create a personalized vaccine- an immune response against their own tumors using the tumor itself. This dendritic cell (DC) vaccine was used after surgical resection of metastatic tumors to try to prevent the growth of ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2010 - 1:58pm

Extraordinary Measures To Fight Cancer

“Extraordinary measures” is a heart-wrenching movie about a parent’s quest to save the lives of two dying children with Pompe disease. Starring Brandon Fraser (John Crowley) as the venture capitalist fathering the two children, and Harrison Ford (Robert St ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Jan 19 2013 - 3:33pm

Protein P53 And Its Complex Role In Tumor Development

In a new study, cancer biologists show that restoring the protein p53's function in mice with early lung cancer has no effect in tumor development but restoring p53 function later may prevent more advanced tumors from spreading throughout the body.  ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2010 - 4:00am