Cancer Research

Using Bacteria, Tumor Gets Reprogrammed To Attack Itself

By inserting a specific strain of bacteria into the microenvironment of aggressive ovarian cancer, researchers transformed the behavior of tumor cells from suppression to immunostimulation- they attack themselves. Tumors protect themselves from attack by t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2015 - 1:05pm

Longevity Downside: 50 Percent Of British People Will Get Cancer

In the last 40 years, health care has improved a great deal and we are living longer than ever. But the downside to longevity is more time for mutations to occur, and that means cancer. A new forecast in the British Journal of Cancer  has an alarming findi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2015 - 11:29am

Update In The War On Cancer

Image: Peter Hermes Furian In 1971 Richard Nixon declared “War on Cancer” with the signing of the National Cancer Act. Significant progress has been made in the intervening 44 years – and Europe has been at the forefront of many of the advances. But on Fe ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 18 2015 - 2:19pm

Citrus Fruit And Tea May Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk

By:  Karin Heineman, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) – Shelley Tworoger, an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts studied ovarian cancer. "This is one of the largest and oldest cohort studies in the w ...

Article - Inside Science - Feb 10 2015 - 9:00am

A New Approach For Bowel Cancer

Colorectal carcinoma, colon cancer, is the third most common cancer in the United States.  So-called microsatellite stable colorectal cancer with mutations in the BRAF gene represents a particularly aggressive form. The BRAF gene produces the enzyme B-Raf, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2015 - 9:00am

Cancer False Alarms Lead To Future Complacency

A cancer false alarm could put people off checking out cancer symptoms they develop in the future, according to a review of papers. More than 80 percent of patients with potential cancer symptoms are given the all-clear after investigations. But according ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2015 - 12:31pm

Acetate Supplements Speed Up Cancer Growth

A new study has found that giving acetate supplements sped up the growth and metastasis of tumors in mice. Acetate is a major compound produced in the gut by host bacteria, which can have beneficial and also potentially harmful effects on human health. Fur ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2015 - 1:10pm

Proximity Ligation Assay Test: Predicting The Effectiveness Of Cancer Vaccines

Cancer vaccines turn the body's own immune system specifically against tumor cells and one area of study are vaccines that are directed against neoantigens, proteins that have undergone a genetic mutation in tumor cells and are therefore different tha ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 10:43am

ALDH2 Enzyme Not Working? Beware Beer And Yogurt

Researchers have found that by changing the selectivity of an enzyme, a small molecule could potentially be used to decrease the likelihood of alcohol-related cancers in an at-risk population. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2015 - 9:00am

Weight Loss Drugs Linked To Colon Cancer In Mouse Study

Gastric bypass and similar stomach-shrinking surgeries are a popular option for obese patients looking to lose weight and they have even been linked to a decreased risk in many types of cancers- except colon cancer. A 2013 long-term study of 77,000 obese p ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2015 - 1:03pm