Cancer Research

Genomic Test Says It Can Help Determine How Breast Cancer Will Progress

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say they have helped develop a new genomic test that can help clinicians predict which breast cancer patients are most likely to survive the disease and which treatments may be most effective in ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2009 - 11:40pm

Feeding Cancer- Myc Gene Increases Use Of Glutamine By Cancer Cells

Cancer cells need a lot of nutrients to multiply and survive. While much is understood about how cancer cells use blood sugar to make energy, not much is known about how they get other nutrients. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of M ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2009 - 9:43am

New Mutation Holds The Key To Treating Many Different Cancers

Scientists have discovered a mutation responsible for cancer progression, a finding with potential implications for the development of treatment against not one, but a series of cancer types, since this mutation can be linked to an abnormality recently dis ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Feb 24 2009 - 3:10am

Cancer Research: Proton Scanning Gets An Upgrade

According to researchers at University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, they have progressed the way that we can treat cancerous tumors using advanced proton therapy. By developing a new way in which protons are delivered, physicians may be able to tre ...

Article - Erin Richards - Mar 5 2009 - 12:05pm

Atonal Homolog 1- Is This An Anti-Cancer Gene?

Starting with the tiny fruit fly, and then moving into mouse and human patients, researchers at VIB connected to the Center for Human Genetics (K.U. Leuven) say they have showed that the same gene suppresses cancer in all three. Reciprocally, switching off ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2009 - 12:28am

The team that switched off that cancer

The trigger was a gene. In service to humanity was a tiny fly, Drosophila spp  aka fruit fly. This space pioneer that was flown to space first for radiation studies has been a model in genetics and cancer research. Some three quarters of human genes are f ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Feb 26 2009 - 12:36am

Smoking Kills- Women Impacted Most

No, that isn't a New York Times headline(1), Swedish researchers really do say their studies of twins have showed significant genetic differences between men and women who smoke and develop lung disease-  women are more susceptible to the consequences ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2009 - 12:42am

Medulloblastoma- Gene Mutation For Most Common Childhood Brain Cancer Identified

Researchers say they have discovered eight similar genes that, when mutated, appear to be responsible for medulloblastoma – the most common of childhood brain cancers. About 250 Canadian children are diagnosed with various types of brain cancer every year. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2009 - 3:48pm

Red And White Wines Equal In Breast Cancer Risk (Beer Too)

The largest study of its kind to evaluate the effect of red versus white wine on breast-cancer risk concludes that both are equal offenders when it comes to increasing breast-cancer risk. The results of the study were published in the March issue of Cancer ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2009 - 11:56pm

Medical Miracle: 7-Year-Old Girl Has Six Organs Removed For Tumor Surgery... And Then Put Back

A 7-year-old girl from Long Island, NY, is on her way home a little more than four weeks after receiving a historic surgery that involved the removal and partial re-implantation of six organs in order to resect an abdominal tumor that otherwise would be in ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2009 - 10:35pm