News tagged with cancer tumors
New era of gene-based 'personalized medicine' dawning
Jun 14, 2009 |
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Six years ago, scientists announced the completion of the Human Genome Project, a historic effort to decipher each of the 3 billion letters in the genetic instruction book for our species. A single anonymous male from Buffalo, ...
Two new compounds show promise for eliminating breast cancer tumors
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Two new compounds created by a University of Central Florida professor show early promise for destroying breast cancer tumors.
Why some prostate cancer returns
May 27, 2009 |
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The majority of men who receive one of the standard treatments for localized prostate cancer - surgery or radiation therapy - have an excellent outcome.
Breast cancer drug shows promise for treating, preventing progestin-dependent tumors
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Recent studies suggest that human breast cancer risk is increased by outside exposure to the hormone progestin, such as during hormone replacement therapy. Now, a University of Missouri study suggests that PRIMA-1, a small ...
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Stem cells used to model infant birth defect
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Hemangiomas -- strawberry-like birthmarks that commonly develop in early infancy - are generally harmless, but up to 10 percent cause tissue distortion or destruction and sometimes obstruction of vision or breathing. Since ...
Duke technique is turning proteins into glass
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Duke University researchers have devised a method to dry and preserve proteins in a glassified form that seems to retain the molecules' properties as workhorses of biology.
Disabling Skp2 gene helps shut down cancer growth
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Increased understanding of the Skp2 gene and its relation to cellular senescence may lead to the development of novel agents that can suppress tumor development in common types of cancer, researchers from The University of ...
Novel interventional radiology treatment with microspheres shows promise for liver cancer patients
Mar 17, 2010 |
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An interventional radiology treatment—the use of intra-arterial yttrium-90 microspheres for liver cancer (also known as hepatocellular carcinoma)—shows promise in prolonging life for many patients with this devastating condition, ...
Shutting out soft tissue cancers in the cold
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Cryotherapy, an interventional radiology treatment to freeze cancer tumors, may become the treatment of the future for cancer that has metastasized in soft tissues (such as ovarian cancer) and in bone tumors. Such patients ...
Revisiting the need to detect circulating tumor cells
Mar 16, 2010 |
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One of the most dangerous characteristics of cancer is its ability to metastasize, or spread through the body. For this reason, oncologists have a major need for better tests to detect cells that break away from primary tumors ...
2 at 1 stroke -- how cells protect themselves from cancer
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Cells have two different protection programs to safeguard them from getting out of control under stress and from dividing without stopping and developing cancer. Until now, researchers assumed that these protective ...
Living longer: Colon cancer patients gain time with radiofrequency ablation treatment
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Approximately half of Americans living with colorectal cancer will develop liver metastases at some point during the course of their disease. Radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive treatment that applies heat directly ...
Colon cancer treatment frequently is less aggressive than recommended, study finds
Mar 16, 2010 |
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New results from a major initiative on the quality of cancer care in the United States show that patients with a common type of colon cancer -- especially older patients -- often are not treated as aggressively with chemotherapy ...
Blocking cancer in its path: New cellular defect discovered
Mar 16, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF researchers have discovered that a key cellular defect that disturbs the production of proteins in human cells can lead to cancer susceptibility. The scientists also found that a new generation of inhibitory ...
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