News tagged with tumor blood

Scientists demonstrate effective new 'biopsy in a blood test' to detect cancer

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Health, and collaborating cancer physicians have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of an advanced blood test for detecting and analyzing circulating ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Avastin, Sutent increase breast cancer stem cells, study shows

Cancer treatments designed to block the growth of blood vessels were found to increase the number of cancer stem cells in breast tumors in mice, suggesting a possible explanation for why these drugs don't ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study identifies novel markers as key indicators of future renal failure in diabetes

Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified two novel markers that, when elevated in the blood stream, can predict accurately the risk of renal (kidney) failure in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Essential protein for the formation of new blood vessels identified

New research explains how cells regulate their bonds during the development of new blood vessels. For the first time, the role of the protein Raf-1 in determining the strength of the bond between cells has ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Towards more effective treatment for multiple myeloma

A new study from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, shows that MAL3-101, a recently developed inhibitor of the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), appears to have potent anti-tumor effects on multiple myeloma, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Radical surgery saves life of young mom

A team led by Dr. Alan Hemming, transplant surgeon at UC San Diego Health System, has successfully performed the West Coast's first ex-vivo liver resection, a radical procedure to completely remove and reconstruct a diseased ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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Fish oil may hold key to leukemia cure

A compound produced from fish oil that appears to target leukemia stem cells could lead to a cure for the disease, according to Penn State researchers. The compound -- delta-12-protaglandin J3, or D12-PGJ3 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Opting to track, not treat, early prostate cancer

(AP) -- John Shoemaker visited six doctors in his quest to find the best treatment for his early stage prostate cancer - and only the last one offered what made the most sense to the California man: Keep ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Starving cancer

A research group led by ETH Zurich professor Dario Neri have developed a new strategy to fight cancer. Blood vessels in the environment of tumors are killed with a new molecule which leads to the "starvation” ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Understanding how cancer spreads: Nanotech single-cell monitoring technique could give insights

(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique that lets researchers monitor single cancer cells in real time as they float in liquid could help doctors study the breakaway tumor cells that cause metastasis. Metastasis is the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New protocols improve detection of microRNAs for diagnosis

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) that regulate processes including fertilization, development, and aging show promise as biomarkers of disease. They can be collected from routinely collected fluids such as blood, saliva, and urine. However, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Neurotransmitter might improve cancer treatment: study

Doses of a neurotransmitter might offer a way to boost the effectiveness of anticancer drugs and radiation therapy, according to a new study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blood protein EPO involved in origin and spread of cancer

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated that a growth hormone, PDGF-BB, and the blood protein EPO are involved in the development of cancer tumours and that they combine to help ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New brain vaccine aims to turn fatal disease into chronic illness

When U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioblastoma of the brain in May 2009, doctors understood there was little chance he could survive it. He died that August.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Everolimus prolongs progression-free survival for patients with neuroendocrine tumors

Combination treatment with everolimus, an inhibitor of the mammalian target rapamycin (mTOR), and octreotide has shown to improve progression-free survival for patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors and a history of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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