News tagged with bone metastases
Killing cancer like a vampire slayer
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Like vampires, cancer tumors require an ample supply of blood to stay alive. Without fresh blood for sustenance, cancer cells shrivel up like raisins and die.
Metastatic bone disease patients can walk in Lazarus' footsteps
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Osteoplasty—a highly effective minimally invasive procedure to treat the painful effects of metastatic bone disease by injecting bone cement to support weakened bones—provides immediate and substantial pain relief, often ...
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Just 4 months of hormone therapy can delay prostate cancer growth by up to 8 years
Jan 02, 2008 |
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[B]Early, short course of hormonal therapy may allow patients to live longer[/B] Alexandria, VA—Researchers report that just four months of hormonal therapy before and with standard external beam radiation therapy slowed can ...
Blocking signaling protein prevents prostate cancer spread
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia have shown that by blocking a signaling protein, they can prevent prostate cancer cells from metastatic dissemination. The work opens the door to future ...
Primary tumors can drive the growth of distant cancers
Jun 12, 2008 |
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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 ...
Potent metastasis inhibitor identified
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have isolated a potent inhibitor of tumor metastasis made by tumor cells, one that could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment. Their findings were published in the online ...
Genetically engineered MSCs kill metastatic lung cancer cells in mice
May 19, 2009 |
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Researchers in London have demonstrated the ability of adult stem cells from bone marrow (mesenchymal stem cells, or MSCs) to deliver a cancer-killing protein to tumors.
Study provides clues to preventing and treating cancer spread
Jul 28, 2008 |
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Isn't it odd that cancer cells from one organ, such as the skin, can travel and take root in a totally different organ, like the lung?
Aiming to avoid damage to neurocognitive areas of the brain during cranial radiation
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Radiation oncologists at Rush University Medical Center are intent on finding ways to avoid damage to the critically important hippocampus and limbic circuit of the brain when cranial radiation is required to treat existing ...
Researchers uncover 'relocation' plan of metastatic cancer cells
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Few things are as tiresome as house hunting and moving. Unfortunately, metastatic cancer cells have the relocation process down pat. Tripping nimbly from one abode to another, these migrating cancer cells often prove far ...
Instead of Fighting Breast Cancer, Immune Cell Promotes Its Spread
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have new evidence that a type of immune system cell thought to be part of the first line of defense against breast cancer ...
Denosumab increases bone density, cuts fracture risk in prostate cancer survivors
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Twice-yearly treatment with denosumab, a new targeted therapy to stop bone loss, increased bone density and prevented spinal fractures in men receiving androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer. The report from an ...
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