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Short fasting cycles work as well as chemotherapy in mice

Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'DIMming' cancer growth -- STAT: Diindolylmethane suppresses ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is a major cause of death worldwide. Approximately 25,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year and 15,000 women will die from it in the United States alone. The novel anti-cancer drug diindolylmethane ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Overcoming cancer drug resistance with nanoparticles

One of the ways in which cancer cells evade anticancer therapy is by producing a protein that pumps drugs out of the cell before these compounds can exert their cell-killing effects. A research team at Northwestern University ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists may be able to double efficacy of radiation therapy

Scientists may have a way to double the efficacy and reduce the side effects of radiation therapy.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New vaccine attacks breast cancer in mice

Researchers from the University of Georgia and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona have developed a vaccine that dramatically reduces tumors in a mouse model that mimics 90 percent of human breast and pancreatic cancer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers find drug duo kills chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer cells

The use of two drugs never tried in combination before in ovarian cancer resulted in a 70 percent destruction of cancer cells already resistant to commonly used chemotherapy agents, say researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanoparticles and Mini-NMR point the way to personalized cancer therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the advent of targeted drug therapy for treating cancer, it has become clear that an important predictor of success of these therapies is whether such a drug is reaching its target in the patient. The ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First evidence of new 'druggable' DNA repair target to destroy cancer cells

(Medical Xpress) -- Blocking a key DNA damage repair enzyme, called APE1, could provide a new way to kill cancer cells containing faulty BRCA genes, according to research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why measles spreads so quickly

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered why measles, perhaps the most contagious viral disease in the world, spreads so quickly. The virus emerges in the trachea of its host, provoking a cough that fills the air with particles ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research predicts how cancers will respond to chemo, rewrites old theory of why chemo works

Challenging a half-century-old theory about why chemotherapy agents target cancer, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have devised a test that can predict how effective the drugs will be by determining whether a patient's ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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