Cancer Research

In just 3 years of community activism that rivals Sarah Palin's political climb, Teens for Safe Cosmetics (TFSC) from Marin County, California has waged a national campaign to educate and inspire elimination and disuse of chemical toxins and environme ...

Article - Diana Deregnier - Oct 13 2008 - 5:05pm

Caffeine Not Associated With Increased Breast Cancer Risk

Caffeine consumption does not appear to be associated with overall breast cancer risk, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, there is a possibility of increased risk for ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2008 - 11:18pm

Sirtuins- Why Starving Cells Prevents Aging

Cellular damage due to stress is an important factor in aging processes. It is therefore strange that starving, which is stressful, decelerates aging processes and extends the lifespan of organisms. Proteins from the sirtuin family contribute to this mecha ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2008 - 11:34pm

Why Do Only 10% Of Smokers Get Lung Cancer? Genetic Biomarker May Provide The Answer

Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic biomarker that may help to determine why some people are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer. The findings, published in the journal Cancer Research, could help identify smokers who should ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2008 - 12:28am

More Coffee Means Less Breast Cancer, But Smaller Breasts

While conducting a study about a link between breast size and heart cancer, Helena Jernström, an oncologist at Lund University in southern Sweden, discovered a gene that that about half of women possess is involved in breast cancer- and so is coffee. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2008 - 9:23pm

Apigenin- Why Fruits And Vegetables Improve Patient Response To Chemotherapy

The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells. A study by UC Riverside biochemists that focuses on cancer cells reports that ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2008 - 6:53pm

You Knew This- Surgeons Who Practice Are Better At It

Approximately 180,000 new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States and about 40 percent of those diagnosed will undergo surgery as part of their treatment. Every patient assumes it will go well but patients operated on by surgeon ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2008 - 1:08pm

Your Next Cancer Therapy May Be A Virus

Viruses aren't just disease agents any more. Scientists now know they can be used in therapies for cancer but concerns over the safety of 'oncolytic viruses' remain because they can also damage healthy tissues. But Mayo Clinic researchers ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2008 - 6:15pm

Vigorous Exercise May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk By 30 Percent

Normal-weight women who carry out lots of vigorous exercise are approximately 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who don't exercise vigorously, according to a study of more than thirty thousand postmenopausal American women reported i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2008 - 10:51pm

National Nanotech Conference To Be Held At U of Albany On November 7th

National Nanotech Conference To Be Held At U of Albany On November 7 th The University of Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, along with Empire State Science and Technology, will present the “ Symposium on the Convergence of Bio/Nanotec ...

Blog Post - Jen Miller - Dec 7 2018 - 12:57pm