Cancer Research

How Cells 'Count', Multiply And Sometimes Transform Into Cancer

In Current Biology, Instituto Gubenkian de Ciencia researchers say they have provided insight into an old mystery in cell biology- and maybe it will offer up new clues to understanding cancer. Inês Cunha Ferreira and Mónica Bettencourt Dias, working with r ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2009 - 3:29pm

Motorcycle Seats Don't Erectile Dysfunction In Bikers,Says Author, Radios Do

A 2005 Japan impotence study uses soft words about hard seats suggesting motorbike 'vibration may cause ED' and 'more studies are needed to determine the cause,' says patent-granted author Randall Dale Chipkar, but based upon limited i ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 27 2009 - 11:49pm

Using Physics To Unravel Secrets Of Cancer

Biology exists in a physical world and cancer researchers are increasingly looking to include concepts of physics and mathematics in their efforts to understand how cancer develops-- and how to stop it. Traditional cancer biology involves taking a sample o ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2009 - 10:39am

Breast Cancer Risk Declines After Postmenopausal Combined Hormone Therapy Stops- Study

Women who stopped taking the postmenopausal hormone combination of estrogen plus progestin experienced a marked decline in breast cancer risk which was unrelated to mammography utilization change, according to a study from the Women's Health Initiativ ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2009 - 6:48pm

Statin Therapy Ineffective In Breast Cancer Prevention, Says Study

Laboratory work in animals showed limited activity when statins were given to prevent breast cancer, according to a report in the February issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.  Statins, sold under ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2009 - 1:23pm

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