University of Colorado Denver
The current state of lung cancer treatment
A review in the December issue of the journal Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine by Paul Bunn Jr, MD, University of Colorado Cancer Center investigator and past president of ASCO, IASLC and AACI describes the cu ...
Cancer
Dec 11, 2012 |
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Assistive technologies market growing rapidly in US
Assistive technology research and commercialization needs to greatly speed up, said the executive director of Assistive Technology Partners (ATP), because the demand for devices to help people with disabilities and the elderly is poised t ...
Health
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Clinical trial tests rice bran to prevent cancer
A recent University of Colorado Cancer Center review in the journal Advances in Nutrition shows that rice bran offers promising cancer prevention properties. Meanwhile, an ongoing clinical trial is testing the effectiveness of ric ...
Cancer
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Longer life expectancy, aging population necessitate new strategies for prostate cancer care
The population of the United States is getting older, due not only to aging boomers but also to a four-year increase in life expectancy from 1990 to 2010. An aging population means increased diagnosis of prostate cancer. ...
Cancer
Dec 04, 2012 |
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Clinical trial hits new target in war on breast cancer
Breast cancers are defined by their drivers – estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER and PR) and HER2 are the most common, and there are drugs targeting each. When breast cancer has an unknown driver, it also has fewer ...
Cancer
Dec 03, 2012 |
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Lung cancer patients with pockets of resistance prolong disease control by 'weeding the garden'
The central skill of cancer is its ability to mutate – that's how it became cancerous in the first place. Once it's started down that path, it's not so difficult for a cancer cell to mutate again and again. This means that ...
Cancer
Dec 01, 2012 |
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MicroRNA makes triple-negative breast cancer homesick
Epithelial cells are homebodies – they like to attach to things and becoming detached initiates a form of cell suicide known as anoikis (literally "homeless" in Latin). But in order for cancer cells to metastasize they ...
Cancer
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Young people driving epidemic of prescription drug abuse: Abuse of nonmedical analgesics up 40 percent
A new study by the University of Colorado Denver reveals that today's adolescents are abusing prescription pain medications like vicodin, valium and oxycontin at a rate 40 percent higher than previous generations.
Medications
Oct 16, 2012 |
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Invisible tails help cancerous mRNA evade the body's censors
In innumerable spy movies, the hero or a villain imprints a key in clay in order to later make an exact copy. In the body, the clay is messenger RNA, or mRNA, which imprints a gene and transfers the plans to a ribosome, where ...
Cancer
Oct 10, 2012 |
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CU Cancer Center opens phase I clinical trial of anti-cancer stem cell agent OMP-54F28
The University of Colorado Cancer Center, together with other participating academic medical centers, recently opened a phase I human clinical trial of the drug OMP-54F28 in patients with advanced solid tumor cancers. OMP-54F28, ...
Cancer
Oct 03, 2012 |
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Study pinpoints epigenetic function of common cancer-causing protein—it's not what science thought
(Medical Xpress)—Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is diagnosed in about 700,000 people in the United States every year. Commonly contributing to SCC is a protein called DNp63a – it goes abnormally high and the ability of ...
Genetics
Sep 26, 2012 |
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Like prostate cancer, bladder cancer patients may benefit from anti-androgen therapy
Bladder cancer patients whose tumors express high levels of the protein CD24 have worse prognoses than patients with lower CD24. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
Cancer
Sep 24, 2012 |
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Three-year, 676-child trial shows effectiveness of low-cost intervention to improve sun protection
A blistering sunburn during childhood or adolescence more than doubles the adult risk of skin cancer. The accumulation of long-term sun exposure may be equally dangerous. A study from the Colorado School ...
Health
Sep 24, 2012 |
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Doctors treat patients atop remote Andean peak through study of Acute Mountain Sickness
Working on a remote, barren peak in the Bolivian Andes, Ryan Paterson and his fellow emergency room doctors came face-to-face with everything from altitude sickness to appendicitis to complications of sickle ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 18, 2012 |
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Lack of oxygen in cancer cells leads to growth and metastasis
(Medical Xpress)—It seems as if a tumor deprived of oxygen would shrink. However, numerous studies have shown that tumor hypoxia, in which portions of the tumor have significantly low oxygen concentrations, ...
Cancer
Sep 13, 2012 |
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