Cancer Research

Pears, Apples, BMI Associated With Breast Cancer Regardless Of Body Shape

A larger waist circumference is associated with higher risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, according to a paper by American Cancer Society researchers in Cancer Causes, and Control which disputes previous findings that body shape itself is an independen ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2014 - 8:54am

This Cell Is The Source Of Most Cases Of Invasive Bladder Cancer

A new study conducted in mice has implicated a single type of cell, in the lining of the bladder, as responsible for most cases of invasive bladder cancer. The study is the first to pinpoint the normal cell type that can give rise to invasive bladder canc ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2014 - 2:23pm

T-helper Cell Type May Boost Cancer Vaccines

Cancer vaccines haven't lived up to their promise in clinical trials and the reason, many researchers suspect, is that the immune cells that would help the body destroy the tumor – even those reactions boosted by cancer vaccines – are actively suppre ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2014 - 2:00pm

Nail Salon UV Lamps And The Risk Of Skin Cancer

The use of lamps that emit UV radiation in nail salons has raised some concern about the risk of cancer, but previous studies have lacked a large enough sampling of lights from a variety of salons. To create a more authoritative sample, the authors of a n ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 11:30pm

Wnt Signaling Pathway: Link Between Colon Cancer And Metabolism

More than 60 years ago, Otto Warburg said that cancer cells differ from normal cells in the metabolic pathway they use for the oxidation of sugar. Rather than the typical series of oxidative steps that take place in the citric acid cycle, cancer cells met ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2014 - 8:39am

Messenger RNA Discovery Slows Brain Tumor Growth In Mice

Much like using dimmer switches to brighten or darken rooms, biochemists have identified a protein called CFIm25  that can be used to slow down or speed up the growth of brain tumors in mice.  ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2014 - 10:00am

How Signals Trigger Cancer Cells To Spread

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls their ability to invade nearby tissues in a finely orchestrated manner. The findings offer insights into the early m ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2014 - 10:39pm

Can Caloric Restriction Fight Breast Cancer?

Feed a cold, starve a...cancer?  A new paper in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment  says that the triple negative subtype of breast cancer – one of the most aggressive forms – is less likely to spread, or metastasize, to new sites in the body when mice ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2014 - 11:10am

The Risks Of Chemotherapy Related Hospitalization For Eary-Stage Breast Cancer Patients

A retrospective study used large population-based data to compare the risk of hospitalization for six common chemotherapy regimens.  The work gives in the Journal of Clinical Oncology  gives oncologists a new understanding of the toxicity levels of specif ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 5:00pm

PROtEuS Result: Circumcision Linked To Reduced Risk Of Prostate Cancer In Men

Circumcision is performed for various reasons, including those that are based on religion, aesthetics, or health, but a paper in BJU International adds to a growing list of advantages to circumcision; it finds rhat the procedure may help prevent prostate ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 12:55am