News tagged with negative tumors

Biological link established between tumors and depression

In a study that could help explain the connections between depression and cancer, researchers at the University of Chicago have used an animal model to find, for the first time, a biological link between tumors and negative ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




Search results for negative tumors


Sensing self and non-self: New research into immune tolerance

At the most basic level, the immune system must distinguish self from non-self, that is, it must discriminate between the molecular signatures of invading pathogens (non-self antigens) and cellular constituents that usually ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists use an old theory to discover new targets in the fight against breast cancer

Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

PET techniques provide more accurate diagnosis, prognosis in challenging breast cancer cases

In two new studies featured in the February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers are revealing how molecular imaging can be used to solve mysteries about difficult cases of breast cancer. One article focuse ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study defines a new genetic subtype of lung cancer

A report from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center has defined the role of a recently identified gene abnormality in a deadly form of lung cancer. Tumors driven by rearrangements in the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists illuminate cancer cells' survival strategy

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has discovered key elements of a strategy commonly used by tumor cells to survive when they spread to distant organs. The finding could lead to drugs that could inhibit ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Three is the magic number: A chain reaction required to prevent tumor formation

Protein p53 is known for controlling the life and death of a cell and has a key role in cancer research. P53 is known to be inactive in 50 percent of cancer patients. If researchers succeed in re-establishing the presence ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study finds potential key to immune suppression in cancer

In a study investigating immune response in cancer, researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida have found that interaction between the immune system's antigen-specific CD4 T ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aspirin merits testing for prevention of cervical cancer in HIV-infected women

Research conducted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center global health investigators and cancer specialists in New York, Qatar and Haiti suggests that aspirin should be evaluated for its ability to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New indicator may help identify patients with increased risk from throat cancer

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a new indicator that may predict which patients with a common type of throat cancer are most likely have the cancer spread to other parts of their bodies.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mass media and health: Well-informed people eat better

It is time to leave apart the belief that mass media are always a source of bad habits. Television, newspaper and the Internet, when used to get information, may turn out to be of help for health.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0


List of search results for negative tumors