http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Four proteins involved in translation, the final step of general protein production, are associated with poor prognosis in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer when they are dysregulated, researchers reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pi3kmtor-pathway-proteins-tied-poor.html Cancer Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:32:10 EST news252502306 Research led by David Litchfield of The University of Western Ontario has identified how biochemical pathways can be "rewired" in cancer cells to allow these cells to ignore signals that should normally trigger their death. It's one way that cancer cells may become resistant to therapy. The findings are now published in Science Signaling. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-cancer-cells-death.html Cancer Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:12:12 EST news226757521 Targeted biopsy, a major advance in prostate cancer diagnostics, was detailed by a UCLA team in the current issue of Urologic Oncology. The new technology fuses MRI with real-time 3D ultrasound, providing an exacting method to obtain biopsy specimens from suspicious areas in the prostate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-technology-fuses-mri-ultrasound-biopsy.html Cancer Wed, 11 May 2011 13:18:44 EST news224338673 In the first large trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have shown that estrogen-lowering drugs can shrink tumors and reduce mastectomy rates for patients with stage 2 or 3 breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-estrogen-lowering-drugs-mastectomy-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 09 May 2011 16:30:49 EST news224177415