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)
Statistics showing that women in the US have higher risks of developing breast cancer than women in China or Japan and that breast cancer risks for Asian women that migrate in the US increases over generations, becoming similar to that... (Continue reading)
Endocontrol is a France based company which offers endoscopic solutions for endoscopic surgeries. It was created by Clement Vidal and Patrick Henri of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble and developed the ViKY, a revolutionary system which was recently used to... (Continue reading)
In the US alone, 12,5% of women are diagnosed with breast cancer at some time in their life and this is the most common malignant disease of women living in the developed world, 10 to 15 percent of them having... (Continue reading)
In an article regarding the use of monoclonal antibodies in the therapies of cancer, Doctor Louis Weiner, a researcher at Georgetown University Medical Center’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center states that: “We believe that antibody therapy has the capacity to immunize... (Continue reading)
AFAP (attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis) is a condition caused by a genetic mutation which causes the growth of colorectal polyps that have the potential to become cancerous. Since the risk of developing colon cancer is higher for two out of... (Continue reading)
A follow-up study regarding the two ways of treatment for prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy or watchful waiting was carried on by the Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group Study 4 (SPCG-4) and concluded that radical prostatectomy reduces prostate cancer mortality and risk... (Continue reading)
Alcohol-induced flushing is caused by an inherited deficiency in an enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) and recent studies show that people with this deficiency are more exposed to the risk of developing esophageal cancer (specifically squamous cell carcinoma) from... (Continue reading)
Myeloproliferative disorders (MPDs) are a group of blood cancers characterized by the excess production of red and white blood cells, many cases of which being caused by a mutation in a gene called JAK2. A recent study carried out at... (Continue reading)
A new drug could prove to be more effective in cancer treatment as tests show that it is about 200 times more active in killing tumor cells. The active agent comes from a class of drugs called bisphosphonates and it... (Continue reading)