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Maslinic acid provides a natural defense against colon cancer

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Granada and the University of Barcelona have shown that treatment with maslinic acid, a triterpenoid compound isolated from olive-skin pomace, results in a significant inhibition of cell ...


Nanoscopic changes to pancreatic cells reveal cancer

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created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a new paper in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters. Though ...


Scientists decode entire genome of metastatic breast cancer

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in history, BC Cancer Agency scientists in British Columbia, Canada have decoded all of the three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic lobular breast cancer tumour, a type ...


Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Catalyze Brain Tumor Death

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using ...


Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer

Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists in Sweden are reporting for the first time that a group of drugs used to treat heart failure shows promise for fighting colon cancer. The study is in ACS' Journal of Natural Products. Colon cancer ...


2 different breast cancer screening strategies are equally effective

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created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

An organized population-based breast cancer screening program in Norway and an approach to screening that relies on physician- and self-referrals in Vermont are equally sensitive for detecting cancer, researchers report in ...


Childhood cancer survivor study report: Late recurrence is a risk for some cancers

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Late recurrence is a risk for some pediatric cancers, particularly Ewing sarcomas and tumors of the central nervous system, according to a new study published online December 4 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


Multi-institutional study identifies new form of inherited risk of cancer

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created Mar 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Like the subtext of a novel, the human genome sequence harbors more information than appears just in its "letters" of A, C, T and G. Since DNA is a data-packed molecule passed from generation to generation, comparing genome ...


Carbon Nanotubes Detect Lung Cancer Markers in the Breath

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created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an array of nanotube devices, each coated with a different organic material, researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology have developed diagnostic system that may be able to diagnose lung cancer ...


Researchers prove key cancer theory

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mayo Clinic researchers have proven the longstanding theory that changes in the number of whole chromosomes -- called aneuploidy -- can cause cancer by eliminating tumor suppressor genes. Their findings, which appear in the ...


In Brief: Gold nanoparticles might fight cancer

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created May 22, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Alabama scientists are considering using gold nanoparticles to turn near-infrared laser light into a "thermal scalpel" of intense heat to kill tumor cells.


Magnetism Turns Drug Release On and Off

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes and chronic pain, require medications that cannot be taken orally, but must be dosed intermittently, on an as-needed basis, over a long period of time. A few delivery techniques ...


Why cancer cells just won't die (w/ Video)

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created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When cells experience DNA damage, they'll try to repair it. But if that fails, the damaged cells are supposed to self-destruct, a process called apoptosis. A cancer researcher at Robarts Research Institute at The University ...


Yearly mammograms protect breast cancer survivors

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created Jul 23, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Older women who get yearly mammograms after treatment of early-stage breast cancer are less likely to die from breast cancer, according to a study in the July 20, 2007 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.


DC-SCRIPT found to have prognostic value in breast cancer

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created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DC-SCRIPT, or dendritic cell-specific transcript, is a key regulator of nuclear receptor activity that may have prognostic value in breast cancer, according to a new study published online December 14 in the Journal of th ...