Cancer Research

Leukemia: Positive Early Results For WT1 DNA Vaccine Clinical Trial

The early results of a trial to treat leukemia with a WT1 DNA vaccine looks promising,  according to a presentation at the DNA Vaccines 2012 conference in California by Christian Ottensmeier, the trial's principal investigator and Professor of Experi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2012 - 1:00pm

Coffee Linked To Lower Risk Of Oral Cancer

An new American Cancer Society analysis found a strong inverse association between coffee and oral/pharyngeal cancer mortality. Real coffee, not that decaffeinated stuff. The authors say people who drank more than four cups of coffee per day were at about ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2012 - 10:00pm

Kidney Tumors And Kids: Researchers Isolate The Cancer Stem Cells

Wilms' tumors, a type of cancer typically found in the kidneys of young children, might have a new weapon against them. A new therapeutic approach that one day might be used to treat some of the more aggressive types of this disease could be possible ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2012 - 10:37am

Getting Personal With Cancer- The Buzz About Personalized Medicine For Prostate Cancer

“Personalized medicine! What is that?” Your question is justified.  It was also something that Terry Procter from Peterborough, Ontario thought when he was sent a questionnaire for his opinion on the subject. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had h ...

Article - Smitha Dutt - Dec 14 2012 - 10:35am

AACR 2012 Perspective: The Elusive Role Of Stemness In Cancer

McCormick Place- Chicago, IL, March 31st- April 4th 2012- was flocked with scientists across the world for the Annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting. As with each year, the meeting featured endless plenary presentations, symposium ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Jan 19 2013 - 3:13pm

AACR 2012 Symposium On In Vivo Tumor Imaging

Live imaging technology  is becoming an increasing popular tool to visualize real-time cellular events in the tumor microenvironment during metastatic progression. ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Feb 7 2013 - 6:02pm

Differential Telomerase Activities Shape The Genomic Landscape Driving Prostate Cancer Metastasis

Studies by Ding et al (Cell 2012) revealed that telomerase dysfunction early in disease onset creates genomic aberrations crucial for telomerase-driven prostate cancer metastasis into the lumbar spine. ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Jan 19 2013 - 3:16pm

Epigenetic Signatures Consistent In Metastases Of 13 Prostate Cancer Victims

In a genome-wide analysis of 13 metastatic prostate cancers done on men who died of metastatic prostate cancer and whose tissue samples were collected after a rapid autopsy, scientists found consistent epigenetic signatures across all metastatic tumors in ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2013 - 4:22pm

Familial Gene Mutation Immortalizes Malignant Melanoma

About ten percent of all cases of malignant melanoma are familial cases. The genome of affected families tells scientists a lot about how the disease develops. Prof. Dr. Rajiv Kumar of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, D ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2013 - 12:13pm

Fried Food Linked To Increased Risk Of Prostate Cancer

Regular consumption of deep-fried foods like chicken, french fries and doughnuts has been associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer by investigators at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Previous studies have suggested that eating foods ma ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2013 - 3:18pm