Cancer Research

Chemo + Herbo (CHerbotherapy) as Cancer treatment

Cancer chemotherapy has been successful in delaying cancer progression but the flip side has been its side effects.  Kinases have gained popularity as drug targets but achieving target specificity has been a major bottleneck in the development of anti-can ...

Blog Post - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Oct 4 2010 - 9:19am

Is cancer a man made disease?

Is cancer a man made disease? Recently there has been considerable increase in cancers and breast cancer has been detected in 3 persons in one locality in a radius of 500 meters. One person was in the adjacent house of one locality in a span of 10 years. C ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 15 2010 - 12:26pm

Touch your ta-tas, mind your melons

A spunky late 20-something is bringing the breast cancer fight to young people with her Bright Pink organization. Although she's uncomfortable with the word "inspiring," that is just what she and her story are. This is a good story about the ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 17 2010 - 12:26pm

Shock Therapy For Cancer?

Stem cell therapies hold promise as a cure for diseases but not without some risk, since faulty regulation of stem cells leads to a huge range of human diseases.   Even before birth, mistakes made by the stem cells are a major cause of congenital defects a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2010 - 11:23am

No More IV? Photovoltaic Chemotherapy Takes The Stage

Chemotherapy is extremely valuable in killing cancer cells but also takes surrounding tissue with it.   Micro-scaled photovoltaic devices may one day be used to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly to tumors, rendering chemotherapy less toxic to surroun ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2010 - 4:02am

Treating Skin Cancer With Light

Can skin cancer be treated with light? Scientists from the University of California, Irvine say they can treat skin cancer with light- the ability to image cancerous lesions using LEDs might advance a technique for treating cancer called photodynamic thera ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2010 - 12:48pm

Can The Cancer Vaccine Sipuleucel-T Sip The Hell Out Of Cancers?

Sipuleucel-T (Provenge)  was the first therapeutic cancer vaccine to be approved by the FDA for Prostate cancers. Sipuleucel-T consists of Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) including Antigen presenting cells (APCs) was developed by Dendreon. The ...

Article - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Nov 8 2010 - 5:59pm

Will Black Raspberries Help Prevent Colon Cancer?

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in both men and women in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute.   But since cancer is a mutation, risk factors for it can never be elimina ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2010 - 1:35pm

How far are we from personalized medicine?

Cancer treatment has reached a stage where we have begun to realize that same hat can not fit everybody's head. Genetic mismatches at the nucleic-acid level, known as point mutations vary from person to person, calling for the need of 'personaliz ...

Blog Post - Raghuveer Ramacha... - Nov 18 2010 - 11:34pm

Cancer research surprises

Many people would admit to not understanding cancer well, but fewer people would admit to not understanding evolution well.  Here are some challenges to our understanding of both. Starvation may help cancer treatment. “As little as 48 hours of starvation ...

Blog Post - Rafe Furst - Nov 22 2010 - 11:30am