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Molecular imaging holds promise for early intervention in common uterine cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A promising new molecular imaging technique may provide physicians and patients with a noninvasive way to learn more information about a type of cancer of the uterus lining called "endometrial carcinoma" -- one of the most ...


Tumors Feel the Deadly Sting of Nanobees

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 3

When bees sting, they pump into their victims a peptide toxin called melittin that destroys cell membranes. Now, by encapsulating this extremely potent molecule within a nanoparticle, researchers at the Washington University ...


Long-term health and social outcomes for neuroblastoma survivors

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created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survivors of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma are eight times more likely to have chronic health conditions, less likely to be married, and more likely to have lower incomes than their siblings, according to a study published ...


What should a teenage girl do if she finds a lump in her breast?

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created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

If a lump is found in the breast of an adolescent girl, she often will undergo an excisional biopsy.





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German doctors: 40-pound tumor removed from woman

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created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- A German doctor said Friday that surgeons have successfully removed a 40-pound (18 kilogram) malignant bone tumor from a Saudi Arabian woman.


Fluorescent cancer cells to guide brain surgeons

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Gliomas are malignant brain tumors that arise from glial (supporting) cells of the brain. Gliomas are often resistant to chemotherapy. These tumors grow fine extensions that infiltrate normal brain tissue and, in addition, ...


Study provides documentation that tumor 'stem-like cells' exist in benign tumors

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer stem-like cells have been implicated in the genesis of a variety of malignant cancers. Research scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have isolated stem-like cells in benign ...


Twin nanoparticle shown effective at targeting, killing breast cancer cells

Twin nanoparticle shown effective at targeting, killing breast cancer cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Breast cancer patients face many horrors, including those that arise when fighting the cancer itself. Medications given during chemotherapy can have wicked side effects, including vomiting, dizziness, anemia ...


3-D doppler ultrasound helps identify breast cancer

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created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Three-dimensional (3-D) power Doppler ultrasound helps radiologists distinguish between malignant and benign breast masses, according to a new study being published in the November issue of Radiology.


Estrogen found to increase growth of the most common childhood brain tumor

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created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have discovered that estrogen receptors are present in medulloblastoma—the most common type of pediatric brain tumor—leading them to believe that anti-estrogen drug treatments may ...


Newly discovered gene could be a prime target in the most lethal brain cancer

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created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University have discovered mutations in two genes that could become therapeutic targets in malignant glioma, a dangerous class of brain tumors.


Researchers find possible way to block the spread of deadly brain tumors

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created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) may have found a way to stop the often-rapid spread of deadly brain tumors.


Study Shows How Normal Cells Influence Tumor Growth

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It was once thought that the two communities of cells within a cancerous breast tumor - fast-growing malignant cells and the normal cells that surround them - existed independently, without interaction. Then ...


Mechanism in cells that generate malignant brain tumors may offer target for gene therapy

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created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute who first isolated cancer stem cells in adult brain tumors in 2004 have now identified a molecular mechanism that is involved in the development ...



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