Cancer Research
- Soy And Breast Cancer
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What's the relationship between soy consumption and breast cancer? Some major news from JAMA: ...
Article - Michael White - Dec 9 2009 - 1:30pm
- New Nanosensor Measures Cancer Biomarker In Blood
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New nanosensors can measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time, according to an article Nature Nanotechnology, and that could dramatically simplify the way physicians test for biomarkers of cancer and other diseases. A team led by Mark Re ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm
- To Err Is Cellular, To Respond Human (A Call For Action)
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This is an experiment to stir up reaction: a significant proportion of the literature is misleading or false, tainting up to 20% of publications. What are the consequences? 1. The wastage of funds on research that is flawed and often misleading. Millions o ...
Article - Hatice Cullingford - Dec 14 2009 - 12:35pm
- 'Self-Seeding' Plays Crucial Role In Cancer Progression
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Cancer is commonly thought to progress by the growth of a primary tumor followed by metastasis, in which cancer cells leave the primary tumor and spread to distant organs. New research conducted by scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center shows ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2009 - 6:56pm
- Fighting Cancer With A 'Nano Cocktail'
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Researchers from UC San Diego, Santa Barbara and MIT have developed a "cocktail" of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill cancerous tumors. The team says their work, appeari ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2010 - 3:36pm
- Eat Pomegranates To Prevent Breast Cancer
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Fruits that contain anti-aromatase phytochemicals, such as pomegranates, may reduce the incidence of hormone-dependent breast cancer, according to research published in the January issue of Cancer Prevention Research. The authors say that pomegranate is en ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2010 - 7:04pm
- Green Tea May Reduce Lung Cancer Risk For Smokers
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Drinking green tea could modulate the effects of smoking on lung cancer, suggests a hospital-based, randomized study presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer. Researchers enrolled 170 patients with lung cancer and 34 ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2010 - 7:07pm
- Protein Kinase Inhibitors Hault Skin Cancer Growth
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A new study conducted by Loyola University researchers could lead to new treatments for skin cancer that would shrink the tumors with a class of drugs called protein kinase inhibitors. The drugs would work by turning on a gene called protein kinase C (PKC ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2010 - 1:29pm
- Cancer Stem Cells Stifle Immune Response To Glioblastoma Multiforme
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Cancer-initiating stem cells that launch glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal type of brain tumor, also suppress an immune system attack on the disease, say scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. In a paper featured in th ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2010 - 2:48pm
- Researchers Expand Cord Blood Progenitor Cells For Leukemia Treatment
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Writing in Nature Medicine, scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington say they have demonstrated how to increase the number of progenitor cells capable of rapid myeloid engraftment after cord blood transp ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2010 - 4:07pm
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