Cancer Research

Early Prostate Cancer Screening No Benefit To Men With Low Baseline PSA

If you are a man aged 55 to 74 years with low baseline blood levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA), you don't need further screening, says a new study in Cancer.    Aggressive investigation was instead associated with a large increase in cumulativ ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2010 - 12:32pm

Genome-Wide Association Study Finds Four Possible Risk Factors For Ovarian Cancer

Cancer researchers say a large genome-wide association study (GWAS) that spanned three continents has identified four chromosome locations with genetic changes that are likely to alter a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer.  Researchers say that ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 11:03am

Personalized Medicine May Get A Nanotechnology Boost

A new technology can make nanoscale protein measurements- which may mean understanding the effects of therapeutic agents in tumor cells and different cell populations within patients, a key step toward  being able to tailor therapy for each patient. Curren ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2010 - 11:26am

How Hormone Replacement Therapy And The Pill Can Lead To Breast Cancer

Breast cancer affects over 10% of women in Europe, the UK and USA, making it one of the most common cancers. Large population studies such as the Women’s Health Initiative and the Million Women Study have shown that  progestins, synthetic sex hormones used ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2010 - 8:53pm

In Cancer, One Ring To Rule Them All

Imagine that a machine draws your blood, screens it for genetic mutations and chemical variations that can cause cancer, and then pops out a drug tailor-made for your DNA. The hypothetical drug would target and fix the point irregularities which have accum ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2010 - 2:10pm

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