Cancer Research

Chlamydia Promotes Gene Mutations That Lead To Cancer

Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen that is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide. More than 90 million new cases of genital infections occur each year. About 70 percent of women infected with Chlamydia remain asympto ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2013 - 8:50pm

Hypoxia Reason Why One Anti-Cancer Therapy Stops Working

A promising anti-cancer therapy- suppression of the protein mammalian target Of Rapamycin  (mTOR)- has failed to achieve hoped-for success in killing tumor cells. mTOR plays an important role in regulating how cells process molecular signals from their en ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2013 - 10:43am

Cancer Researcher Saves His Dog With Immunotherapy, Now Seeks A Clinical Trial For Humans

Michael Graner, PhD, a CU Cancer Center investigator and associate professor of neurosurgery at the CU School of Medicine, experimented on his dog. Before anyone yells "Tesla!" and PETA gets up in arms, he did it for the best of reasons.  At age ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2013 - 11:05am

Hydrogen Sulfide: Rotten Egg Smell A Player In Colon Cancer Metabolism Too

Hydrogen sulfide, the pungent-smelling gas produced by rotten eggs, is a key player in colon cancer metabolism, and a potential target for therapies for the disease, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Cell-cul ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2013 - 4:43pm

MAPK Signaling: Brain Cancer In Children Has A Common Cause?

Brain cancer is the primary cause of cancer mortality in children but even when the cancer is cured, the stress of treatment can be harmful to developing brains. The search is always on for gentler cures and the PedBrain consortium, launched in 2010, has ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2013 - 11:08am

Sharks Won't Lead To Better Cancer Treatment- But A Hippo Might

A potential new pathway to treat cancer is actually called the Hippo pathway- and it's a key control in how our organs are perfectly suited to our bodies, despite differences in size.  Using mice genetically lacking an enzyme called Set7, the results ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2013 - 8:47pm

Neurotoxicity Of Chemotherapy Drugs

Chemotherapy, the treatment of cancer using chemotherapeutic agents such as cytotoxic antineoplastic drugs, is one of the primary treatments for cancer- but it has drawbacks. Some of the most disturbing findings of recent studies of cancer survivors is th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2013 - 2:53pm

Checkpoint Protein ATM: A Missing Piece In Pediatric Cancer Puzzle?

Cancer occurs most often in adults because it often takes decades of accumulating genetic errors for a tumor to develop- pediatric tumors are another issue. Recently, researchers may have found a missing piece of the pediatric cancer puzzle; a mechanism b ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2013 - 11:00am

Debate: Removing Ovaries During A Hysterectomy For Non-Cancerous Disease

Removing ovaries during hysterectomies protects against future risk of ovarian cancer but the ovaries and the hormones they produce may have advantages for preventing heart disease, hip fracture, sexual dysfunction, and cognitive decline. Outside cancer r ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2013 - 12:35pm

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Could Aid Skin And Oral Cancer Treatment

Omega-3 fatty acids, contained in oily fish such as salmon and trout, selectively inhibit growth and induce cell death in early and late-stage oral and skin cancers, according to a new paper. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2013 - 3:38pm