Cancer Research

In the 'Medicine needs to be more evidence-based' department, we have brachytherapy

The National Cancer Institute says 200,000 American women will get breast cancer this year and 20% will die from the disease. A lumpectomy is a common treatment but up to 40 percent of women see the cancer return, a number that is reduced to about 10 perce ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2010 - 12:40pm

Skin Cancer Up- But Indoor Tanning Used By 20% Of Women, 6% Of Men

Skin cancer is the most common form of malignancy in the United States and the American Cancer Society has estimated that 1 million new cases of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer were diagnosed in 2009, while 8,650 deaths were attributable to melanoma ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2010 - 7:45pm

Cancer’s Inconvenient Truths

Inconvenience #1: Genetics represents < 10% of the risk but most of the science ...

Blog Post - Rafe Furst - Sep 9 2011 - 12:29am

Photodynamic Therapy For Cancer?

Metastasis is when tumor cells move from the primary tumor to distant tissues- it is metastasis of the primary tumor that kills most cancer patients. One of the least studied routes of metastasis is the lymphatic system, though many tumors produce factors ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2011 - 5:38pm

Cancer-Derived Blood Vessels- Feeding Their Way To Host Destruction

Cancer can be described as a cellular disease, which is thought to arise from misbehaving cells that divide uncontrollably in vivo. Our basic understanding of why this occurs is because these “cancer cells” have lost its ability to respond appropriately to ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Nov 12 2012 - 5:14pm

"Large Spectrum" Cancer Suppressor Gene Discovered

Portuguese researchers have discovered a "broad spectrum" cancer suppressor gene called LRP1B which acts by removing proteins crucial for cancer development from the tumor environment. The fact that LRP1B does not act on the tumor itself (in this ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Mar 23 2011 - 9:12am

Cancer Treatment Breakthrough

CRAIGAVON, Northern Ireland, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- Scientists from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast and Almac Discovery Ltd, announce the first publication describing a potential new anti-angiogenic therapy based on a natur ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 4 2011 - 7:19pm

Cytotech Labs Unravels Insight Into Metabolic Control Of Cancer

ORLANDO, Florida, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- Cytotech Labs, a Boston based pharmaceutical company and member of the Berg Pharma, Inc. group along with Berg Biosystems and Berg Diagnostics today presented groundbreaking insight into seminal work performe ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 4 2011 - 7:20pm

Cancer Death Rates Continue To Decline

Deaths due to cancer for both men and women in the United States continued to decline between 2003 and 2007, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.  Overall rates of new cancer diagnoses for men and women combined decr ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2011 - 4:50pm

Cosmic Embryo #4: Breast Cancer Wars: Delaying The TKO?

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Article - Richard (Dick) Go... - Mar 24 2013 - 4:00pm