News tagged with colon tumors
Test may help predict colon cancer recurrence risk
May 14, 2009 |
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A new gene test may help predict which colon cancer patients are at higher or lower risk of having their cancer return after surgery, doctors report, but whether it is useful enough to justify its likely high price remains ...
Researchers Discover Drug can Prevent Colon Cancer Development in Mice
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found that a drug now being tested to treat a range of human cancers significantly inhibited colon cancer development in mice. Because the agent appears to have minimal ...
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What identifies cancer cells causing relapse and metastasis? Not CD133
May 23, 2008 |
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New data, generated by Shahin Rafii and colleagues, at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, through analysis of human colon cancer cells and mice, have shed doubt on the recently proposed designation of ...
Researchers make discovery in colon cancer prevention
May 18, 2009 |
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A new study finds that individuals who have low expression of the "Celebrex gene," 15-PGDH, are actually resistant to Celebrex treatment when used to prevent colon cancer. The study, published in this week's issue of the ...
Novel marker of colon cancer
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Colon cancer ranks second of all gastrointestinal malignant tumors, it is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Until now, several molecules have been reported to play an important role in gastroenterological ...
Expression patterns of microRNAs appear altered in colon cancer, and associated with poor outcomes
Jan 29, 2008 |
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Preliminary research has found an association between certain microRNA expression patterns and poor survival and treatment outcomes for colon cancer, according to a study in the January 30 issue of JAMA.
Discovery of a novel mechanism for the development of colon cancer
May 05, 2008 |
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Recent work from the Finnish Academy Center of Excellence on Cancer Biology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has shed light on the mechanisms of colon tumor development and may help to design better treatment for this ...
How diarrheal bacteria cause some colon cancers revealed in mouse studies
Aug 23, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins scientists say they have figured out how bacteria that cause diarrhea may also be the culprit in some colon cancers. The investigators say that strains of the common Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) ...
Vitamin D and calcium influence cell death in the colon, researchers find
Apr 13, 2008 |
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Researchers at Emory University are learning how vitamins and minerals in the diet can stimulate or prevent the appearance of colon cancer. Emory investigators will present their findings on biological markers that could ...
Genomic signature of colon cancer may individualize treatment
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Researchers in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy have developed a model for predicting risk of recurrence in early stage colon cancer patients, and have used the model to also predict sensitivity to chemotherapy ...
Gene dose affects tumor growth
Jan 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Ohio State University have found that the number of copies of a particular gene can affect the severity of colon cancer in a mouse model. Publishing in the Jan. 3 issue of Nature, the resear ...
A surprise 'spark' for pre-cancerous colon polyps
May 14, 2009 |
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Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah studied the events leading to colon cancer and found that an unexpected protein serves as the "spark" that triggers formation of colon polyps, the precursors ...
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