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Scientists Announced New Advance for Cancer Targeting in The Future
An international team of scientists announced new research that offers potential for quite new approaches to targeting some diseases such as cancer. They also announced an increased potential for more targeted therapies following identification of proteins which have a vital...
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New Target Identified Could Stop Developing Own Blood Supply of Tumours
A recently developed drug is, according to researchers, aimed at particular receptors involved in the growth of blood vessels which sustain tumour growth. The drug is active in the case of patients presenting advanced forms of cancers and has stopped...
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A new lung cancer treatment consisting of an inhalable dry powder seems to have determined a significant increase of the survival rates and is also less invasive than other current treatment options, many of them including surgery and radiation. The...
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Study Shows that Regular Exercise Is Reducing Many Health Risks that Include Some Forms of Cancer and Dementia
About two dozen physical as well as mental health conditions can be reduced by regular exercise, while body aging can be slowed down, says a research review which summarises the main findings of about forty papers that were published starting...
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DNA Repair Protein to Have a Novel Role in Cancer Disease, Scientists Unveil
Researchers in Tufts University have found that a certain cellular protein which has a key role in repairing damaged DNA molecules could also help the cancer development. Mitch McVey, Assistant Professor of Biology, and his team of researchers report that PolQ...
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Genetic Research Brings New Information Referring to Milk and Risk of Renal Cancer
Previous research had induced the idea that drinking milk was increasing the risk of renal cell cancer, but a recent study denies the genetic contribution milk consumption could bring to renal cancer risk. Lead researcher Nicholas Timpson, Ph.D., is a lecturer...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Four Times More Likely to Be Developed by Persons Surviving Childhood Cancers
Young adults who survived childhood cancers are four times more exposed to developing PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) than other persons, according to a Childhood Cnacer Survivors Study. The study was focused on 6,543 survivors of childhood cancer, all of them over...
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Identification of Key Mechanism in Breast Cancer
A key molecular mechanism that favors spreading of tumor cells to adjacent or distant regions of the body has been identified by researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. This process is called metastasis and appears in breast...
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Popular Diabetes Medication Supposed to Work Differently than Expected
Metformin, as popular diabetes medication, may work in different way than currently accepted. New elements could lead to wider use of this drug, particularly in treatment of cancer and some diseases related to TSC deficiency, such as tuberous sclerosis and...
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Kidney Transplant Recipients Risk Cancer, Drugs Are Irrelevant
According to a study published in JASN (Journal of the American Society Nephrology), drugs taken by those persons having received kidney transplant represent similar risks of cancer, no matter their origin. The higher incidence of cancer among these patients cannot...
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