News tagged with tumor biology


US cancer care: treatment choices are all about you

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US cancer experts are preparing to focus on new developments in making treatment ever more personalized, right down to the molecular level, at their main annual gathering this weekend.





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Prodrug could help curb skin toxicity related to EGFR-inhibiting cancer drugs

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

There may be a way around the harsh skin toxicity associated with a widely used cancer drug, according to a study published online this week in Cancer Biology and Therapy by researchers from City of Hope and the Kimmel Cancer ...


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

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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.


Fat droplet nanoparticle delivers tumor suppressor gene to tumor and metastatic cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Dr. Esther Chang describes the most recent developments in human trials of the first systemic, non-viral, tumor-targeted, nanoparticle method designed to restore normal gene function to tumor cells while completely bypassing ...


Study provides insights into the molecular basis of tumor cell behavior

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by a team of researchers led by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, sheds light on the molecular basis by which tumor cells modulate their surroundings ...


Potent metastasis inhibitor identified

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have isolated a potent inhibitor of tumor metastasis made by tumor cells, one that could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment. Their findings were published in the online ...


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

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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 ...


Researchers discover, manipulate molecular interplay that moves cancer cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Based on research that reveals new insight into mechanisms that allow invasive tumor cells to move, researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have a new understanding about how to stop cancer from spreading. A cancer ...


Study Shows How Normal Cells Influence Tumor Growth

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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 ...


Researchers discover new targets for treatment of invasive breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has shown for the first time that a tiny piece of RNA appears to play a major role ...


Researchers report of a brain and spinal tumor following human fetal stem cell therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A case report published in this week's issue of the open-access general medical journal, PLoS Medicine, describes a rare side effect of human fetal stem cell therapy. Ninette Amariglio and Gideon Rechavi from the Sheba Medica ...



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