News tagged with types of cancer
Researchers identify genetic markers for aggressive head and neck cancer
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified genetic markers that signal poor outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer. These findings could one day lead to a genetic test ...
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Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Scientists in Sweden are reporting for the first time that a group of drugs used to treat heart failure shows promise for fighting colon cancer. The study is in ACS' Journal of Natural Products. Colon cancer ...
Lifestyle interventions in the prevention and treatment of cancer
Sep 24, 2009 |
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There is clear evidence that lifestyle choices affect the incidence and treatment of cancer, according to a study published in the current issue of American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM).
Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT cancer biologists have identified a subpopulation of cells that can give rise to pancreatic cancer. They also found that tumors can form in other, more mature pancreatic cell types, but ...
Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year: study
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.
A serving of soy a day can help keep breast cancer away
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is estimated that 40,170 women will die from breast cancer in 2009, and while much less common in men, they are not immune to the disease. It is estimated that 1,910 diagnoses of invasive breast cancer ...
Scientists pinpoint breast cancer 'guard' gene
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are close to discovering how normal breast cells become cancerous, according to research by Cambridge scientists published today.
Scientists identify common HPV genotypes in northern India, encourage vaccination
Oct 11, 2009 |
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Although a wide spectrum of human papillomavirus is seen across the population of India, HPV-16 and HPV-18 are the most common types and a vaccination targeting these types could eliminate 75 percent of the cervical cancers ...
Research points to potential chink in cancer's armor
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of York have identified and successfully silenced a gene that appears essential to cancer cell survival.
Coffee Consumption Associated with Reduced Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While it is too early for physicians to start advising their male patients to take up the habit of regular coffee drinking, data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers ...
Lipid involved with gene regulation uncovered
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new role for the bioactive lipid messenger, sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P, that is abundant in our blood - a finding that could lead to a ...
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