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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 4,363 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)

Predicting Fatal Fungal Infections in HIV-related Death

Written on 16 Sep, 2009 at 23:00 in Cancer, HIV and AIDS | viewed 5,893 times | 0 Comments

Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University identified in a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, cells in blood that predict which HIV-positive individuals are most likely to develop deadly fungal meningitis, a major cause... (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 3,586 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 3,238 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)

“Decision Making with Prostate Cancer: A Multiple-Objective Model with Uncertainty”

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 22:59 in Cancer, Colon Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 2,297 times | 0 Comments

A graduate student at the University of California Irvine created, in part, an online decision tool that helps men diagnosed with prostate cancer sort through an intimidating flurry of possible treatments and customize treatment plans of their own. This was... (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 22,255 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)

The rates of colorectal cancer are increasing worldwide

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 22:32 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 2,834 times | 0 Comments

The rates of colorectal cancer have grown between 1983 and 2002, in 27 of 51 countries, mostly in economically transitioning countries including Eastern European countries, most parts of Asia, and some countries of South America. Worldwide, colorectal cancer is the... (Continue reading)

Dioxins In Food Chain May Cause Breastfeeding Ills

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 22:19 in Breast Cancer, Cancer | viewed 1,941 times | 0 Comments

An explanation for the trouble some women experience while breastfeeding or if they don’t produce enough milk may be caused by the exposure to dioxins. Corresponding author B. Paige Lawrence, Ph.D., associate professor of Environmental Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology... (Continue reading)

Animals predisposed to liver cancer can avoid it by low-fat diet

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 22:14 in Cancer, Liver Cancer, Nutrition | viewed 9,637 times | 0 Comments

Two strains of mice were compared in a study, one predisposed to cancer and the other not, and it was discovered that a high-fat diet increased the risk of the susceptible to cancer mice, to develop liver cancer. Investigators from... (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 20,901 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)