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The Cancer Chain Damaged by a Newly Discovered Tumor Suppressor

Written on 24 Oct, 2009 at 23:06 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer | viewed 17,733 times | 0 Comments

A recent research undergone by investigators from the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas presents a new protein that suppresses tumors by identifying enzymes which support cancer and link to them molecules that act as destructors... (Continue reading)

Taking a Closer Look at the Prostate Cancer Metastasis

Written on 24 Oct, 2009 at 22:09 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 23,181 times | 0 Comments

A team of investigators coming from the Scripts Research Institute located in California examined the effects of the uPA (urokine plasminogen activator) in the early evolution of cancer spreading in the organism. Leading the team of scientists were doctors Elena... (Continue reading)

Middle East Area: Aggressive Thyroid Tumors Related to Leptin

Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 12:30 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Thyroid Disease | viewed 5,998 times | 0 Comments

One of the molecules causing obesity, entitled leptin, seems to be a key element in being able to predict a poor forecast with regards to the thyroid tumors. One of the areas affected by this situation is the Middle East... (Continue reading)

Hispanic Children Suffering From Brain Cancer Do Not Enjoy Equal Access to Medical Care

Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 12:25 in Brain Tumor, Cancer | viewed 3,717 times | 0 Comments

Children of Hispanic ethnic who suffer from brain cancer, as statistics show, enjoy in a small number and rare occasions a qualitative therapy in clinical centers which have as specialization neurosurgery compared to other children suffering from the same disease.... (Continue reading)

New Research Shows a Link between HPV and the Rare Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 12:22 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Colon Cancer | viewed 3,032 times | 0 Comments

A recent research funded by grants from National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, U-M Head and Neck Cancer SPORE and a loan to the SensiGen LLC offered by the state of Michigan, was concerned with the increasing negative effects... (Continue reading)

Black People More Affected by Pancreatic Cancer than Whites

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:45 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer | viewed 22,484 times | 0 Comments

Smoking and body mass index represent high risk factors connected to pancreatic cancer. It has been observed that black people are more affected by this disease than white people and thus, experience a higher mortality rate. Researchers recognize that they... (Continue reading)

New Study Disclosed about Autoimmune Diseases

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:34 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Leukemia, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Stem Cells | viewed 28,202 times | 0 Comments

Researchers from University of Michigan state that they have discovered a new method by which they can hold in place immune cells that are characterized by an aggressive reaction and attack the own cells of the human body. This... (Continue reading)

S1P Gene Regulating Lipid May Help Develop New Drugs against Cancer

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:32 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Leukemia, Lung Cancer | viewed 20,567 times | 0 Comments

Shingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) represents a bioactive lipid messenger which can be found in our blood in large quantities. A team of scientists from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine observed that this lipid has an important role in developing a... (Continue reading)

Checkpoint Proteins Enable Resistance of Cancer Cells Against Drugs

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:23 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer | viewed 20,998 times | 0 Comments

Scholars from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered that checkpoints for the cellular life cycle enable damaged cells to stop dividing and stall them. However, even if this molecular stop generated by the cell cycle checkpoints stops the cells,... (Continue reading)

Individual Trials on Mice Lead to Breakthrough Discovery in Breast Cancer

Written on 17 Sep, 2009 at 0:15 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer | viewed 4,171 times | 0 Comments

The mutations of the tumors involved in breast cancer are unique for each person suffering from this disease. Considering the fact that these suffering are similar in the case of mice and humans, scientists from the Duke University Institute for... (Continue reading)