Cancer Research

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

Metastatic Melanoma: Anti-Nodal Antibodies Plus Dacarbazine Promising

Metastatic melanoma is the leading cause of skin cancer deaths in the United States because once has spread- metastasized- life expectancy for patients is dramatically shortened. Melanoma diagnosis and treatment has progressed a lot and the future looks ev ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2015 - 8:13am

Obese Women Far More Likely To Get Cancer

Obese women have greater risk of developing a weight-related cancer in their lifetime than women of a healthy weight, according to new statistics.  Obesity increases a woman's risk of developing at least seven types of cancer- including bowel, post-me ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2015 - 7:30am

A Tampon Could Help Predict Endometrial Cancer

A new study finds that it is possible to detect endometrial cancer using tumor DNA picked up by ordinary tampons. DNA samples from vaginal secretions can show the presence of chemical "off" switches- known as methylation- that can disable genes ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2015 - 8:59am

ID4 Gene Switch Might Tame Triple Negative Breast Cancers

Triple-negative breast cancers are around 15% of all breast cancers and they lack any of the three receptors (oestrogen, progesterone or HER2) that would make them responsive to targeted drugs. Triple-negative breast cancer patients have a higher risk of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2015 - 9:00am

Family Caregivers Value A Year Of Life For Cancer Patients More Than Patients Do

Stage IV cancer patients and their caregivers don't agree on the value of another year of life versus other end-of-life improvements. Cancer is an expensive proposition emotionally and also financially. High-cost treatments may result in only moderate ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2015 - 10:38am

KRAS Gene Hijacks Pancreatic And Lung Cancer Defenses

A vital self-destruct switch in cells is hijacked- making some pancreatic and non small cell lung cancers more aggressive, according to new research which found that mutations in the KRAS gene interferes with protective self-destruct switches, known as TR ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2015 - 8:30am

$1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen For Prostate Cancer

A prostate cancer test using gold nanoparticles costs less than a $1 and yields results in minutes- results show it to be more sensitive and more exact than the current standard test for early-stage prostate cancer, the less precise PSA test that's no ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 11:54am

Cancer Genes Turned Off In Deadly Brain Tumors By RNA Small Molecule

Scientists have identified a small RNA molecule named miR-182 that can suppress cancer-causing genes in mice with glioblastoma mulitforme (GBM), a deadly and incurable type of brain tumor.  There are 16,000 new cases of the deadly brain tumor reported in ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2015 - 5:51pm

Breast Cancer Treatment: You Get What You Pay For

America has expensive health care but it also has the best health care. As the Federal government has discovered in trying to implement the Affordable Care Act, giving something away for free will not maintain that level of quality. Instead, the future cou ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2015 - 6:31pm