Cancer Research

Mitochondrial Enzyme DHODH, Ferroptosis, And Maybe A New Cancer Treatment Strategy

Preclinical findings suggest that targeting the mitochondrial enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) can restore ferroptosis-driven cell death, pointing to new therapeutic strategies that may be used to induce ferroptosis and inhibit tumor growth. Fe ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2021 - 1:01pm

Hepatitis C Can Now Be Cured- Next Up Will Be A Vaccine

Like coronavirus, Hepatitis C was only discovered as unique a few decades ago, but in that time science took its 2 million new HCV infections every year, with an estimated 70 million carriers of the virus globally, and 400,000 deaths annually to finding a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2021 - 7:27am

Acinus: Engineers Have Built A Pancreatic Cancer Time Machine

Pancreatic cancer tends to develop from chronic inflammation that happens when a mutation has caused digestive enzymes to digest the pancreas itself. What if we could go 'back in time' and reverse that process? Purdue University Professor Bumsoo ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2021 - 1:31pm

COVID-19 Ignited The Era Of Real-World-Evidence. Now, Let’s Bring It On To Accelerate Cancer Research

As we exit the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care community must consider how to apply lessons learned over the past year to improve quality of care and patient outcomes across the health care spectrum.  One critic ...

Article - Helmy Eltoukhy - Oct 21 2021 - 11:37pm

Statins Effect On Prostate Cancer Screening Results Revealed

In a new epidemiology paper, men taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs had different  prostate cancer screening results than non-users- in statin users, screening did not increase the incidence of prostate cancer as it did in other men. The data came fr ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2021 - 10:48am

Cancer Deaths Rose To 10 Million Worldwide But That Is Still Good News

Cancer deaths rose to 10 million globally in 2019, up from 2010 when total cancer deaths numbered 8.29 million worldwide- but the headline masks some important health progress. Cancer is not going up, despite claims by those who believe modern food, energy ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2022 - 1:26pm

HIV Drug Lamivudine A Promising Treatment In Metastatic Colon Cancer Trial

A recent trial of lamivudine, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor used in HIV therapy, found that it stopped disease progression in patients with fourth-line metastatic colorectal cancer.  The trial included 32 patients with advanced metastatic colon cancer ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2022 - 9:43am

DNA Repair Genes May Be Why More Smokers Don't Get Lung Cancer

Smoking is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen, determined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer before they were hijacked by activist epidemiologists out to scare people about the modern world. Yet it is not a magic bullet. Only 10 percent of smo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2022 - 11:19am

Forget Media Headlines About One Study, Get Screened For Colorectal Cancer With A Colonoscopy

A recently published study in a high-profile medical journal appeared to call into question the efficacy of colonoscopy, a proven and widely utilized strategy for the screening and prevention of colorectal cancer. ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 19 2022 - 10:02am

Melanoma Wants To Kill- Here Is How It Changes To Do So

A new paper describes the perfect combination of genetic alterations that tumors use to promote explosive growth and prevent their own demise, a development that could change the way oncologists understand and treat melanoma. Telomeres, protective caps at ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2022 - 8:20pm