Cancer Research

Brain Radiation For Lung Cancer?

A national Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study led by a Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center physician at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee has found that a course of radiation therapy to the brain after treatment for locally advanced non-sma ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2009 - 7:33pm

New target for relief of cancer pain?

A possible breakthrough in understanding of cancer pain has been announced. A group at Heidelberg University, led by Prof Dr Rohini Kuner, has just published an article in Nature Medicine entitled Hematopoietic colony–stimulating factors mediate tumor-ner ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 15 2009 - 12:59pm

Breast Cancer- Growth Factor Signaling In Tamoxifen Resistance

Differences in growth factor (GF) signaling may cause the poor prognosis in some breast cancer cases. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Medical Genomics, suggests that some estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers respond poorly to tam ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2009 - 4:00pm

Twinkle, Twinkle, Nanostar...

Purdue University researchers have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and can scatter light to produce a pulsating or "twinkling" effect. This twinkling allows them to stand out mo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:55pm

Vindication for pale high-schoolers

Vindication! For all of you fake-bake tanners in high school who spent countless hours and money in tanning beds thinking you looked so much better with tan skin, there is an additional layer of medical support to line my "I told you so" folder. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 29 2009 - 9:00am

Schistosoma Haematobium Parasite Linked To Tumors

Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium) is a parasitic flatworm that infects millions of people, mostly in the developing world, and is associated with high incidence of bladder cancer although why is not clear. Two works by Portuguese researchers just o ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Aug 1 2009 - 8:09pm

Cancer Mortality Is Declining, And The Public Doesn’t Know It

Cancer impacts millions of lives for the worse every year. Despite this difficult reality, it appears that we are becoming increasing successful in our efforts to stem the tide of patients who fall victim as time goes on. According to a recently published ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2009 - 6:15pm

Evolutionary Game Theory: A New Approach For Cancer Treatment

A new paradigm in the way we look at cancer with important implications on how we treat it is about to be published in the British Journal of Cancer by Portuguese, Belgian and American researchers. The group use a mathematical approach to reveal how- by ch ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Aug 31 2009 - 10:01am

Latex bearing plants have great medicinal potential

The latex bearing plants Euphorbia antiquorum, E. antisyphilitica, E. caducifolia, E. neerifolia, E. nivulia, E. royleana, Calotropis procera, C. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 1 2009 - 5:30pm

Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) an Indian holy plant has vast medicinal properties: Ethnobotany.

 Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) has potential as anticancer plant. The term ethnobotany was first used by Harshberger in 1885 and its scope was much elaborated later by Ford in 1978 and Faulks in 1958 (Trivedi,2002). Studies of medicinal plant based on ancient li ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 1 2009 - 10:00pm