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A tumor or tumour is the name for a swelling or lesion formed by an abnormal growth of cells (termed neoplastic). Tumor is not synonymous with cancer. A tumor can be benign, pre-malignant or malignant, whereas cancer is by definition malignant.

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Targeting cancer stem cells in the lab

Targeting cancer stem cells in the lab

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding of the particular cancer cells within a tumour that drive its growth could now advance more rapidly, thanks to Oxford University scientists.


Veterinary scientists find way of killing equine sarcoid tumour cells

Veterinary scientists find way of killing equine sarcoid tumour cells

Biology / Other

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Veterinary researchers at the University of Glasgow have succeeded in killing equine sarcoid cells by silencing genes in the virus which cause tumours on horses.


Women with breast cancer may benefit from autologous stem cell transplantation

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Compared to conventional chemotherapy, autologous stem cell transplantation can extend "event-free survival" for breast cancer patients. Clinical trials provide proof of this for breast cancer with and without distant metastases. ...


New target discovered for treatment of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new way of blocking the formation of blood vessels and halting the growth of tumours in mice. A substance that exploits this mechanism ...


Study sheds light on role of stem cells in children's brain tumor

Study sheds light on role of stem cells in children's brain tumor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from scientists at Queen Mary, University of London shows how the most common type of children's brain cancer can arise from stem cells.


Researchers find powerful predictor of bone cancer prognosis

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have discovered a powerful new tool that can help predict the prognosis for patients with bone cancer and help doctors ...


Discovery opens door to new treatments for prostate, brain and skin cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research of the Jewish General Hospital and McGill University in Montreal have discovered a previously unsuspected link between two different genetic pathways which suppress ...


Nervous culprit found for Tassie devil facial tumor disease

Mystery solved: Facial cancer decimating Tasmanian devils likely began in Schwann cells

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

An international team of scientists led by a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) investigator has discovered that the deadly facial tumors decimating Australia's Tasmanian devil population probably originated ...


Autologous stem cell transplantation for soft tissue sarcoma: insufficient research into therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Due to a lack of suitable studies, it is unclear whether patients with soft tissue sarcoma can benefit from autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. With this type of therapy, some of the patient's own (autologous) ...


Controversial kidney transplant technique could provide lifeline for very ill patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgeons who successfully performed kidney transplants after removing small cancerous and benign masses from the donated organs, have published their results in the December issue of the urology journal BJUI.


Vitamin E extract could help tackle cancer tumours

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extract of vitamin E could have a key role to play in the treatment of cancerous tumours, according to newly-published research today.


Clinical trials launched for treating most aggressive brain tumor with personalized cell vaccines

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The University of Navarra Hospital (Spain) has launched a series of clinical trials in order to assess the efficacy of an immunotherapy treatment. This approach involves the application of personalised vaccines —produced ...


Tiny magnetic discs could kill cancer cells: study

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (23) | comments 4

Tiny magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to used to kill cancer cells, according to a study published on Sunday.


Researchers discover Hedgehogs could play a role in treating osteoarthritis

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have found a pharmacological approach to treating the disease. The study is published in the November 15 advance online ...


Disease-matching software could save children

Disease-matching software could save children

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modelling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward.