News tagged with blood cancers


Experimental drug shows promise against head and neck cancer

Experimental drug shows promise against head and neck cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A laboratory study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that an anti-cancer compound studied for treating blood cancers may also help in treating cancers of ...





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WA discovery a key to blood cell development

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A West Australian research team has made the world-first discovery a 'pied piper' molecule within blood cells, called Liar, that leads other molecules into the nucleus of the cell, and could offer a key in treating prostate, ...


Ideal nanoparticle cancer therapies surf the bloodstream

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

Eric Shaqfeh studies blood at Stanford University, using computer models that simulate how the fluid and the cells it contains move around. On November 11 at a meeting of the scientific society AVS, he will present his latest ...


Ovarian cancers detected early may be less aggressive, questioning effectiveness of screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The biology of ovarian cancers discovered at an early stage may render them slower growing and less likely to spread than more aggressive cancers, which typically are discovered in an advanced stage, according to a study ...


Newly discovered epidermal growth factor receptor active in human pancreatic cancers

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finally some promising news about pancreatic cancer, one of the most fatal cancers, due to the difficulties of early detection and the lack of effective therapies: Johns Hopkins University pathologist Akhilesh Pandey has ...


Lower levels of key protein influence tumor growth in mice, study shows

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tumors need a healthy supply of blood to grow and spread. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecule that regulates blood vessel growth that is often found at less-than-normal levels ...


Cancer researchers first to link intestinal inflammation with systemic chromosome damage

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists have linked for the first time intestinal inflammation with systemic chromosome damage in mice, a finding that may lead to the early identification and treatment of human inflammatory disorders, ...


Researchers learn how blood cells 'talk'

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new model that explains how cells communicate and specifically reveals how blood cells "talk" to each other. The result could help transform treatments ...


Researchers find breast cancer gene that's blocked by blood pressure drug

Researchers find breast cancer gene that's blocked by blood pressure drug

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers have identified a gene that is overexpressed in up to 20 percent of breast cancers and that could be blocked in the lab by a currently available blood pressure drug, according to a new study from ...


Improved DNA stool test could detect digestive cancers in multiple organs

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Mayo Clinic researchers have demonstrated that a noninvasive screening test can detect not only colorectal cancer but also the common cancers above the colon -- including pancreas, stomach, biliary and esophageal cancers. ...


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.



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