News tagged with cancer tumours


Newly discovered gene plays vital role in cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene p53 protects against cancer and is usually described as the most important gene in cancer research. However, scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now shown that a previously ...


New technology discovery holds promise for improved breast cancer treatment

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created Feb 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

In a study published by Nature Biotechnology online on February 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital researchers have unveiled a new technology tool that analyzes breast cancer tumours to determine a patient's best treatment option ...





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Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time

Scientists crack gene code of common cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time, British scientists announced, in a major breakthrough in understanding the diseases.


More blood vessels in hormone-resistant prostate tumors

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with advanced prostate cancer are often treated with hormones, but when the tumours start growing again they have more and different blood vessels, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University ...


New protein key for cell proliferation identified

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have identified a protein that plays a key role in cell proliferation and is likely to promote cancer development. The work may lead to the development of new diagnostic tools ...


Autologous stem cell transplantation for soft tissue sarcoma: insufficient research into therapy

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Due to a lack of suitable studies, it is unclear whether patients with soft tissue sarcoma can benefit from autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. With this type of therapy, some of the patient's own (autologous) ...


Vitamin E extract could help tackle cancer tumours

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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.


Clinical trials launched for treating most aggressive brain tumor with personalized cell vaccines

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The University of Navarra Hospital (Spain) has launched a series of clinical trials in order to assess the efficacy of an immunotherapy treatment. This approach involves the application of personalised vaccines —produced ...


A challenge to improve Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for structural biology

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In structural biology, the only technique available to predict the three dimensional structure of large complex molecules in solution, such as proteins and DNA, is NMR spectroscopy. To catalyze improvements ...


Scientists reveal 'protector' gene behind 50-fold increase in number of bowel tumours

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created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer Research UK scientists have shown that deleting a single gene can increase the average number of tumours in the bowel by 50-fold, according to research published in PNAS today.


Drug shrinks lung cancer tumors in mice

Drug shrinks lung cancer tumors in mice

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A potential new drug for lung cancer has eliminated tumours in 50% of mice in a new study published today in the journal Cancer Research. In the animals, the drug also stopped lung cancer ...


Magnetic nanoparticles to simultaneously diagnose, monitor and treat

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs) giving an army of 'therapeutically armed' white blood cells direction to invade a deadly tumour's territory, or the use of mNPs to target specific nerve channels ...



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