Enterix Launches Test For Colorectal Cancer Screening
The availability of the CLIA-waived InSure Quik F I T test is intended to help physicians increase patient compliance with an annual colorectal cancer screening test.
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Breast Cancer Growth Varies With Women's Age
Breast cancer growth varies not only with tumor type, but also with women's age, showing significantly fast growth in younger women.
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Skin Flaps Deliver Cancer-Fighting Therapy
Using gene therapy, plastic surgeons have delivered cancer fighting proteins through skin flaps placed on cancerous tumors on rats with a 79 percent reduction in tumor volume.
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Gene Location Gives Rise To An Aggressive Childhood Cancer
Using advanced gene-hunting technology, an international team of researchers has for the first time identified a chromosome region that is the source of genetic events that give rise to neuroblastoma, an often fatal childhood cancer.
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Cells Lining Milk Ducts Hold Key To Breast Cancer
When a form of cancer that begins in the milk ducts of the breast invades neighboring tissue to spread to other parts of the body, the cause lies not in the tumor cells themselves but in a group of abnormal surrounding cells that cause the walls of the duct to deteriorate like a rusty pipe.
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Outdoor Workers Less Likely To Get Screened For Skin Cancer
While occupational risks are inherent in many jobs, workers who make a living toiling in the sun face an increased threat of skin cancer from repeated overexposure to the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays.
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Self-Exams, Screenings Vital For Skin Cancer Detection
When detected early, most skin cancers can be successfully treated.
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Mind-Body Therapies Benefit Cancer Survivors
Traditionally, many physicians have had some difficulties advocating the use of complementary and alternative medicine in treating cancer for a variety of reasons, including a lack of scientific evidence.
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Gene Variations May Predict Risk Of Breast Cancer
Variations of the adiponectin gene, which regulates a number of metabolic processes, may increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.
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Interacting proteins key to melanoma development, treatment
Researchers have discovered how a mole develops into melanoma by showing the interaction of two key proteins involved in 60-70 percent of tumors. Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer because it metastasizes or moves around the body so quickly.
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HER1, HER3 VeraTag Available For Clinical Evaluation Of Cancer Therapeutics
Monogram Biosciences's HER1 and HER3 Quantitative Protein Assays are now available for clinical development use.
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Proteolix Tries Carfilzomib For Relapsed Solid Tumors
Proteolix initiates a Phase 2 clinical trial of carfilzomib, a selective blocker of proteasome activity, in relapsed solid tumors.
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A Small Molecule Can Activate Important Cancer Suppressor Gene
By activating a cancer suppressor gene, a small molecule called nutlin-3a can block cancer cell division.
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Doctors Can Predict Leukemia Recurrence
Two newly conducted studies can help doctors to diagnose how aggressive acute leukemia is and how big the risk for recurrence is. This will help doctors to choose the best blood cancer treatment for each patient individually.
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Prevent cancer with early treatmentof stomach infection
Based on research using a new mouse model of gastritis and stomach cancer, researchers say that prompt treatment of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections reverses damage to the lining of the stomach that can lead to cancer.
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Daily Aspirin Cuts Common Breast Cancer Risk
Daily aspirin intake may cut risk for developing the common type of breast cancer.
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Blacks On Medicaid Carry Heavier Cancer Burden
African-American patients receiving Medicaid benefits have markedly higher rates of breast, prostate, colorectal and lung cancer than whites on Medicaid.
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New Hopeful Treatment For Beating Aggressive Cancers
With an 89% initial success rate in arresting or eradicating some of the most aggressive cancers, a Nashville-based treatment is being offered to the public for the first time.
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Medicare Cost For Cancer Treatment Reaches 21 Billion
Cancer treatment takes heavy toll on Medicare topping $21.1 billion a year.
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Molecular Discoveries Shed Light On Liver Cancer
Genomics improves our ability to target experimental liver cancer treatments.
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Genetic Variants Linked To Risk Of Breast Cancer Found
Scientists from deCODE genetics report the discovery of two common single-letter variants on chromosome 5 of the human genome that are associated with risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.
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Two Suppressor Molecules Affect 70 Genes In Leukemia
By restoring two small molecules that are often lost in chronic leukemia, researchers were able to block tumor growth in an animal model.
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Considering Mistletoe As Cancer Treatment
For many people, mistletoe conjures up images of Christmas holidays, but in parts of Europe, mistletoe extract is widely used as a therapy for cancer patients.
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Doctors Buying Illegally Imported Cancer Drugs Putting Patients At Risk
A whistleblower lawsuit has exposed an illegal scheme where doctors have purchased illegally imported cancer drugs as a way to cut their costs and boost their income.
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Lip Glosses Increase Skin Cancer Risk
Lip glosses and balms may increase risk for developing skin cancer.
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Viruses May Trigger Lung Cancer Development
Viruses causing measles and human papillomavirus may create auspicious conditions for lung cancer to develop.
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Immunotherapy Shows Promise For Lung Cancer Treatment
Long-term clinical trial results that were presented last Friday at the 1st European Lung Cancer Conference demonstrate that MAGE-A3 ASCI (Antigen-Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic), an immune-boosting treatment for lung cancer patients, reduces the risk of relapse after surgery to the same extent as chemotherapy.
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HPV Viruses May Play a Role In Causing Lung Cancer
Papers presented at the 1st European Lung Cancer Conference demonstrate that common viruses such as HPV may play a role in the development of lung cancer.
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Sunitinib May Slow Growth Of Liver Cancer
Treatment with sunitinib slows tumor growth and reduces the risk of metastasis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, an aggressive cancer of the liver.
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Mouse Studies Identify Gene That May Influence Metastasis Risk In Breast Cancer
Researchers have identified a pattern of gene activity in mice that may help to predict individual risk for breast cancer metastasis and survival in humans.
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Rexin-G Efficient For Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Interim Analysis of an on-going Phase I/II study of Rexin-G for pancreatic cancer confirmed Rexin-G's anti-tumor activity with no major toxicity in patients with metastatic chemotherapy-resistant pancreatic cancer.
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Breast Cancer Risk Amplified By Additional Genes
Many women with a faulty breast cancer gene could be at greater risk of the disease due to extra risk-amplifying genes.
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Analysis Reveals New Protein Associated With Breast Cancer
A novel systems-based approach has led researchers to an important genetic marker that can help physicians know which breast cancer patients are at highest risk and will require more aggressive treatment.
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Inherited Cancer Mutation Is Widespread In America
A gene mutation responsible for the most common form of inherited colon cancer is older and more common than formerly believed.
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New Therapies Could Change Cancer Treatment Strategies
The investigational drug AZD2171 (cediranib) may help shrink tumors and prolong survival of patients with a relatively common, aggressive type of brain cancer.
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Sunitinib May Slow Growth, Spread Of Liver Cancer
Treatment with sunitinib slows tumor growth and reduces the risk of metastasis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, an aggressive cancer of the liver.
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A Potential Sugar Fix For Tumors
Researchers have solved the riddle of why cancer cells like sugar so much, and it may be a mechanism that could lead to better cancer treatments.
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Phone counseling Improves Cervical Cancer Survivors' Life
UCI study identifies importance of 'mind-body' connection for surviving cervical cancer or any other type of cancer.
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Researchers Find How Cancer Cells Begin
Using a common virus as a tool for investigating abnormal cell proliferation, research has succeeded in clarifying an intricate series of biochemical steps that shed light on a way that cancer can begin.
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Chemotherapy May Not Affect Memory in Breast Cancer Patients
Women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer frequently report problems with memory and concentration, but two new studies suggest that chemotherapy is not the cause of these problems, and the stress of the diagnosis may be.
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