Cancer Research

HPV Testing Set To Increase In UK

One hypothesis goes that electric toasters became popular because something had to be done with electricity. So it may go with some vaccines.  Roche has set up a co-marketing agreement with private laboratory Unilabs-IHS to support greater access to HPV t ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2012 - 11:26am

Amgen To Acquire Micromet & Cancer Treatment In Clinical Trials For Hematologic Malignancies

THOUSAND OAKS, California, and ROCKVILLE, Maryland, January 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/-- Amgen and Micromet, Inc. today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amgen will acquire Micromet, a biotechnology compan ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 26 2012 - 12:15pm

Women Not Following Through With Recommended Breast Screening MRI

A study of 64,659 women, recently published in the journal Academic Radiology, found that while 1,246 of these women were at high enough breast cancer risk to recommend additional screening with MRI, only 173 of these women returned to the clinic within a ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jan 31 2012 - 2:08pm

Study Details On-Off Switch That Promotes Or Suppresses Breast Cancer

Signals can tell cells to act cancerous, surviving, growing and reproducing out of control. And signals can also tell cells with cancerous characteristics to stop growing or to die. In breast cancer, one tricky signal called TGF-beta does both – sometimes ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Feb 17 2012 - 12:07pm

Pten Lets Mice Eat Anything And Remain Cancer Free

Utopia is a perfect world where we can eat to our heart's content without without getting heart disease or diabetes or even cancer.  In mice, Utopia may be coming closer. Mice with an extra dose of a known anti-cancer gene called Pten lose weight even ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2012 - 2:23pm

STAT-1 And PLSCR-1: Proteins Implicated In Hard-To-Treat Breast Cancers

Most breast cancers are categorized as estrogen-receptor positive, which means they are hormone sensitive and may need estrogen to grow. Patients with this type of cancer often respond favorably to aromatase inhibitors, like tamoxifen, which cause cell dea ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2012 - 10:43pm

Meningioma: Frequent Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor

A study published in CANCER found that while dental X-rays are necessary, frequent dental X-rays in the past led to an increased risk of developing the most commonly diagnosed primary brain tumor in the United States. Ionizing radiation is the primary envi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2012 - 8:32pm

Microarray Meets Mammography- Detecting Breast Cancer In A Drop Of Blood

Early cancer diagnosis is vital for treating breast cancer- and one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, according to an article in  Molecular&Cellular Proteomics- but early detection is still challenging as testing by mammography remai ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2012 - 6:30pm

Super Spice: Oregano Ingredient Could Be Prostate Cancer Treatment

Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the prostate gland and usually occurs in older men. Recent data shows that about 1 in 36 men will die of prostate cancer. Estimated new cases and deaths from this disease condition in the US in 2012 alone ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2012 - 3:08pm

Bladder Cancer- The Top Warning Sign To Watch For

Action on Bladder Cancer (ABC) releases findings from a new National survey[1] exposing how little the general public knows about bladder cancer. Awareness around the main warning sign for bladder cancer- blood in the urine- is gradually increasing (50% i ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 1 2012 - 7:00pm