News tagged with growing tumors


Eating eggs when pregnant affects breast cancer in offspring

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 0

A stunning discovery based on epigenetics (the inheritance of propensities acquired in the womb) reveals that consuming choline—a nutrient found in eggs and other foods—during pregnancy may significantly affect breast cancer ...





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Compound Halts Common Type of Drug-resistant Lung Cancer

Research yields new agent for some drug-resistant non-small cell lung cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The ability to make, test, and map the atomic structure of new anti-cancer agents has enabled a team of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists to discover a compound capable of halting a common type of drug-resistant ...


Researcher finds success with new anti-cancer drug

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created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A study conducted at Scott & White Healthcare in Temple, Texas, found that a new drug stopped the growth of breast tumors in mice. This drug is unique in that it works both by stopping the cancer cells from growing and metastasizing ...


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 ...


Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent ...


Small addition to cancer drug may make big difference

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

University of Florida researchers have found a way to use just a fraction of the normal dosage of a highly toxic, debilitating chemotherapy drug to achieve even better results against colon cancer cells.


In cancer-ridden rats, loneliness can kill

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Socially isolated female rats develop more tumors -- and tumors of a more deadly type -- than rats living in a social group, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.


Potential new 'twist' in breast cancer detection

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publishing in the December issue of Neoplasia have shown that a protein made by a gene called "Twist" may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish stem cells ...


Researchers identify gene that spurs deadly brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have identified a new factor that is necessary for the development of many forms of medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer.


Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

cylinders of carbon about a nanometer in diameter -- have been highly touted for potential applications such as ultrastrong fibers, electrical wires in molecular devices, or hydrogen storage components for ...


Tumor-attacking virus strikes with 'one-two punch'

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Ohio State University cancer researchers have developed a tumor-attacking virus that both kills brain-tumor cells and blocks the growth of new tumor blood vessels.



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