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Metastatic bone disease patients can walk in Lazarus' footsteps

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Osteoplasty—a highly effective minimally invasive procedure to treat the painful effects of metastatic bone disease by injecting bone cement to support weakened bones—provides immediate and substantial pain relief, often ...





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Potential new 'twist' in breast cancer detection

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Experimental agent reduces breast cancer metastasis to bone

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have reduced breast cancer metastasis to bone using an experimental agent to inhibit ROCK, a protein that was found to be over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer. In a study in mice, the team of researchers ...


Scientists identify a cellular pathway by which alcohol may promote cancer progression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is essential for numerous developmental processes involving biological cells. New findings indicate that alcohol may promote cancer progression by stimulating EMT.This has implications ...


Alternatively spliced tissue factor identified as promising new biomarker for aggressive cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recently discovered form of the protein that triggers blood clotting may play a key role in the molecular mechanisms leading to the growth of certain metastatic cancers, according to new research reported by an international ...


Scientists identify specific markers that trigger aggressiveness of liver cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or primary liver cancer forms in the epithelial tissue of the liver and is most commonly caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV). In the U.S., the National Cancer Institute ...


Tiny technology may yield major finds -- and possible perils

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Imagine a particle so small it would take a million of them to stretch across the period at the end of this sentence. Imagine such particles could help catch cancer cells floating in your bloodstream before they could metastasize ...


Mutated FGFR4 protein helps a childhood cancer spread

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a childhood cancer thought to originate from skeletal muscle. In patients whose disease has spread (metastasized) from the initial tumor site the chance of long-term survival is poor. Hopes for a ...


Researchers identify gene that regulates breast cancer metastasis

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at The Wistar Institute have identified a key gene (KLF17) involved in the spread of breast cancer throughout the body. They also demonstrated that expression of KLF17 together with another gene (Id1) known to ...


Scientists illuminate how microRNAs drive tumor progression

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF researchers have identified collections of tiny molecules known as microRNAs that affect distinct processes critical for the progression of cancer. The findings, they say, expand researchers' understanding ...


Lung cancer suppresses miR-200 to invade and spread

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

Primary lung cancer shifts to metastatic disease by suppressing a family of small molecules that normally locks the tumor in a noninvasive state, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report ...



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