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Research on Breast Cancer Patients Discovers No Link between PCR Rate and Race

Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 12:17 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 16,637 times | 0 Comments

A study undergone by scientists from the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas discovered that people who were suffering from breast cancer in an advanced stage and were treated with the similar group of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy... (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)

NBI Enhances the Early NSCLC Detection

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:24 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Lung Cancer | viewed 2,999 times | 0 Comments

The Journal of Thoracic Oncology published in its September issue a study regarding the narrow-band imagining. Researchers discovered that this mechanism supporting bronchoscopy may serve its purpose as another means of detecting the bronchoscopic cancer in its early development stages... (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)

Quality of Life May Predict Life Span of Lung Cancer Patients

Written on 17 Sep, 2009 at 0:05 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer | viewed 23,705 times | 1 Comment

In September 2009, the Journal of Thoracic Oncology published a study concerned with the fact that people`s pretreatment life quality can predict how much they can survive with their ordeal. The research focused on patients suffering from non-small cell lung... (Continue reading)

A New Treatment For Ovarian Cancer

Written on 16 Sep, 2009 at 23:56 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Skin Cancer | viewed 24,554 times | 0 Comments

A partnership research study made by the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital discovered that women suffering from metastatic ovarian cancer can be treated with a revolutionary medicine. A radioactive substance with no harmful side-effects... (Continue reading)

Lowering radiation toxicity by inhibiting Nf-kappa B protein. Study on Zebra-fish

Written on 16 Sep, 2009 at 23:09 in Cancer, Lung Cancer | viewed 2,700 times | 0 Comments

Research conducted by the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson University on embryos of zebra fish showed that inhibiting in a direct manner of the activity of an important protein which intermediates the process of inflammation, the negative, toxic effects of... (Continue reading)

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)