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Has cancer spread? Research identifies best way to find answers so treatment can begin

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For patients with head and neck cancer, accurately determining how advanced the cancer is and detecting secondary cancers usually means undergoing numerous tests – until now. New Saint Louis University research has found ...


Study reveals why certain ovarian cancers develop resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified a new mechanism that explains why some recurrent ovarian tumors become resistant to treatment with commonly used platinum-based chemotherapy ...


Proton therapy lowers chance of later cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Patients who are treated with proton therapy (a specialized type of external beam radiation therapy using protons rather than X-rays to treat cancer) decreases the risk of patients developing a secondary cancer by two-fold, ...


Newly discovered gene could be a prime target in the most lethal brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University have discovered mutations in two genes that could become therapeutic targets in malignant glioma, a dangerous class of brain tumors.


Study reveals the paths of Ontario secondary students to their post-secondary destinations

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Queen's University looking at the transitions young people make from secondary school to university, college, apprenticeship and the workplace found that over 60 percent of first-year college ...


Radiation increases risk of second primary tumors for childhood survivors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 01, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Radiation exposure may increase the risk of brain and spinal column tumors in survivors of childhood cancer, according to a study in the November 1 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


Drinking wine may increase survival among non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pre-diagnostic wine consumption may reduce the risk of death and relapse among non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients, according to an epidemiology study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting ...


Hitting cancer where it hurts

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two studies in the May 29th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication, have taken advantage of new technological advances to search for and find previously unknown weaknesses in a hard to treat form of cancer. The discoveries lend n ...


In the modern post-PSA era, prostate cancer surgery may not be necessary for some patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), along with collaborating teams at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Michigan, have completed the first large- scale, multi-institutional study of ...


Children 'increasingly unlikely' to learn a modern language

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children are increasingly unlikely to leave school with even the most basic knowledge of modern languages despite Government claims to the contrary, an independent study has found.


Genetic variations indicate risk of recurrence, secondary cancer among head and neck cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Eighteen single-point genetic variations indicate risk of recurrence for early-stage head and neck cancer patients and their likelihood of developing a second type of cancer, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


A new mouse could help understand how some lung cancer cells evade drug treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type. Many cases of lung adenocarcinoma are attributed to a mutation in a gene for the epidermal growth factor receptor ...


Study finds logging effects vary based on a forest's history, climate

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Smoky Mountain forest's woodland herb population has shown that climate may play a role in how forest understories recover from logging, according to Purdue University research.


Vitamin E extract could help tackle cancer tumours

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extract of vitamin E could have a key role to play in the treatment of cancerous tumours, according to newly-published research today.


Primary tumors can drive the growth of distant cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 12, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Primary tumors can encourage the growth of stray cancer cells lurking elsewhere in the body that otherwise may not have amounted to much, according to a new study in the June 13 issue of the journal Cell. As people age, m ...