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New Target Identified Could Stop Developing Own Blood Supply of Tumours

Written on 7 Feb, 2011 at 22:55 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer | viewed 3,880 times | 0 Comments

A recently developed drug is, according to researchers, aimed at particular receptors involved in the growth of blood vessels which sustain tumour growth. The drug is active in the case of patients presenting advanced forms of cancers and has stopped... (Continue reading)

New Initiative to Screen the Exposure to Environmental Carcinogens

Written on 9 Feb, 2010 at 14:06 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer | viewed 24,132 times | 0 Comments

A recent investigation of an ACS (American Cancer Society) research collaborator subcommittee regarding cancer and the environment stated that the exposing of oneself to carcinogens must be diminished as much as possible and even stopped in the cases where it... (Continue reading)

New Link between Cancer and Alcohol. Alcohol Triggers Cell Transformations Which May Lead to Tumor Cells Spreading

Written on 24 Nov, 2009 at 20:43 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 24,420 times | 0 Comments

Even though past investigations associated the consumption of beverages containing alcohol to cancer and its metastasis, the process behind this relationship was never completely understood. However, a team of scientists from the Rush University Medical Center underwent a study regarding... (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 23,180 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)

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 20,997 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)

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 24,553 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)

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)

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)

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 29,537 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)

Possible Tumor-Supressant Gene Identified

Written on 19 Jun, 2009 at 21:36 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer | viewed 26,356 times | 0 Comments

A team of Austrian scientists of the Institute of Biochemistry and the Center for Molecular Biosciences of the University of Innsbruck might have found a way to suppress a powerful oncogene, a recent study shows. The oncogene in question is in... (Continue reading)