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“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 1,736 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 7,770 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 2,063 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)

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 3,328 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 13,721 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)

Screening for Ovarian Cancers Proves Inconclusive

Written on 30 Jun, 2009 at 21:08 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 14,596 times | 0 Comments

The results of a recent study regarding screening tests for ovarian cancers is questioning the effectiveness of the procedure, the main concern being the fact that, at an early stage of development, the biology of ovarian cancers often interprets them... (Continue reading)

A New Aproach on Recurrent Breast Cancer

Written on 19 Jun, 2009 at 21:38 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 12,045 times | 0 Comments

The treatment of recurrent breast cancer, which can localize in skin, lymph nodes, lung, liver or bone, should not be entirely based on the properties of the original breast cancer, suggests a recent study conducted by the Princess Margaret Hospital... (Continue reading)

Anti Colon Cancer Vaccine Undergoes Testing

Written on 19 Jun, 2009 at 21:38 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lymphoma, Skin Cancer | viewed 15,565 times | 0 Comments

Nearly 50000 people died of colon or rectal cancer in the year 2008 and in the same year there where reported more than 108,000 new cases of colon cancer and nearly 41,000 cases of rectal cancer in the U.S. alone,... (Continue reading)

A New Approach in Understanding the Metastatic Process

Written on 19 Jun, 2009 at 21:34 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 20,719 times | 0 Comments

In an effort of understanding the mechanisms of the metastasis, researchers at the Institute Curie in Paris came up with a theory that suggests that every biological tissue regulates to a preferred pressure called homeostatic pressure and that an increased... (Continue reading)

A More Effective Tumour Inhibiting Protein

Written on 25 Apr, 2009 at 0:54 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer | viewed 20,835 times | 0 Comments

Associated with aggressiveness in some of the most common types of cancer, HIF (the hypoxia-inducible factor) is produced by cells in tumors, in their regions that have low levels of oxygen and are said to be hypoxic due to poor... (Continue reading)

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