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RNA Helps Suppressing the Spread of Aggressive Breast Cancer

Written on 16 Sep, 2009 at 23:04 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 3,734 times | 0 Comments

According to researchers at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, a low cellular level of a tiny fragment of RNA appears to increase the spread of breast cancer. Their study was published in the June 12 issue of Cell, and describes... (Continue reading)

Detection and Treatment Possibilities for Rare Form of Colon Cancer opened by a Tumor Metabolism Discovery

Written on 16 Sep, 2009 at 10:34 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer | viewed 2,353 times | 0 Comments

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, a rare inherited cancer syndrome causes, in those who suffer from it, gastrointestinal polyps and they get predisposed to colon cancer and other tumor types. The researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies exploited the tumors’ weak... (Continue reading)

Increase in the African American population appears to be associated with a decrease in the number of colorectal cancer specialists

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 23:03 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer | viewed 2,505 times | 0 Comments

According to a new article, despite the overall declines in incidence of and death from colorectal cancer in the general U.S. population, African Americans are more likely to die of the disease. This is due to the poor access of... (Continue reading)

Clinical Trials Lead to New Cancer Treatment

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 22:50 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer | viewed 7,767 times | 0 Comments

A research, conducted by Prof. Avraham Hochberg of the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at a Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led to the development of a product that has been shown in clinical trials to be successful in halting the... (Continue reading)

Inactivation of PTEN allows tumours to resist radiation therapy

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 22:12 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 8,747 times | 0 Comments

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that tumours with PTEN mutations are often resistant to radiation therapy. The PTEN gene produces a protein found in almost all tissues in the body. This protein prevents... (Continue reading)

Waste Disposal Protein, a Mechanism Behind Cancer Tumour Suppression

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 21:59 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 3,324 times | 0 Comments

The investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey have discovered that the key to cancer tumour suppression is a waste disposal protein, known as autophagy. Previous study of Eileen White,... (Continue reading)

MicroRNA replacement provides an effective therapy in cancer

Written on 30 Jun, 2009 at 21:16 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Lymphoma | viewed 13,718 times | 0 Comments

Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Nationwide Children have discovered a potential strategy for cancer therapy by focusing on what’s missing in tumors. MicroRNAs control gene expression and are commonly lost in cancerous tumors. Noticing this absence, scientists have shown that the... (Continue reading)

A New Method for the Study of Cell Detachment

Written on 30 Jun, 2009 at 21:02 in Brain Tumor, Lung Cancer | viewed 3,245 times | 0 Comments

Tumor cells that detach and enter the bloodstream create the possibility for the disease to spread in other tissues. While scientists gained knowledge about how cancer cells attach to these surfaces, little is known about the way these cells detach... (Continue reading)

The Human Epigenome and Cell-Type-Specific Gene Expression

Written on 19 Jun, 2009 at 21:39 in Brain Tumor | viewed 4,919 times | 0 Comments

Differences in gene expression is what causes diversity between cells despite the fact that almost all human cells have the same genome and it represents the process through which a protein or other molecule encoded by a gene is produced.... (Continue reading)

MicroRNA Might be Responsible for Tumour Development

Written on 19 Jun, 2009 at 21:37 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Lymphoma | viewed 16,686 times | 0 Comments

The discovery of a micro-molecule which regulates the activity of the p53 protein that protects cells against cancer could have an important significance in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The molecule in question is in fact a type of... (Continue reading)