Cancer Research

Researchers Seek To Exploit Self-Cannibalizing Cancer Cells

A team of scientists from Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey are attempting to unravel the secret lives of cancer cells that go dormant and self-cannibalize to survive periods of stress, a process called autophagy. The work may hel ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:02pm

Rhubarb May, Or May Not, Fight Cancer

Rhubarb May, Or May Not, Fight Cancer Current news reports about cancer-fighting chemicals in rhubarb may lead some people to think that eating a lot of rhubarb is a good idea.  Bad move!  Rhubarb is widely renowned as a laxative! Researchers have found t ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 13 2010 - 11:15pm

Dolphins May Be Ideal Model For Studying Cervical Cancer

A recent study of marine mammals by University of Florida aquatic animal health experts has revealed that dolphins may be the ideal model for studying cervical cancer in humans. "We discovered that dolphins get multiple infections of apillomaviruses, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2010 - 11:55am

Mathematical Model Gives New Hope To Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia Patients

Doctors can now understand better chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), including how it responds to therapy, thanks to a new mathematical model for the disease developed by scientists in Portugal, Belgium and the United States. The work, to be published in th ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Feb 21 2010 - 3:48am

Study Reveals How Arsenic Exposure May Promote Cancer

Researchers have found a new oncogenic signaling pathway by which arsenic exposure may lead to adverse health effects, including bladder cancer. The results appear in Cancer Research. While the correlation between arsenic exposure and cancer tumors such as ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2010 - 3:20pm

Photoacoustics Help Doctors Hear Melanoma

In order to determine if there is cancer in the lymph nodes, pathologists must currently perform several  detailed, time-consuming tests. But University of Missouri researchers have developed a laser-induced ultrasound, called the photoacoustic method, tha ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2010 - 6:51pm

Calculating Cancer

Can a differential equation cure cancer? A fascinating article in Forbes suggests that using mathematics may be able to create drug combinations that are far more effective than the ones now in use. 1 "I have a suspicion that we are using almost all t ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 25 2010 - 12:17pm

Leukemia Cells Hijack Normal Protein To Grow

University of Pennsylvania scientists have found that mixed lineage leukemia (MLL), has an unusual way to keep the molecular motors running. The cancer cells rely on the normal version of an associated protein to stay alive. MLL happens when a piece of chr ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:03pm

Parents May Consider Early Death For Terminally Ill Children

A survey of parents who have lost children to cancer found that one in eight considered hastening their child's death, a consideration influenced by the amount of pain the child experienced during the last month of life, according to a new survey in t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2010 - 5:49pm

Are We Winning The 'War On Cancer'?

The 'war on cancer' has led to a reduction in the rate of cancer deaths whether measured against baseline rates in 1970 or in 1990, reports a new study by the American Cancer Society. According to the study, the downturn in cancer deaths since 19 ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2010 - 4:26pm