http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Brain-tumor cells that are infected with a cancer-killing virus release a protein "alarm bell" that warns other tumor cells of the impending infection and enables them to mount a defense against the virus, according to a study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cancer-cells-alarm-tumor-killing-virus.html Cancer Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:22:25 EST news251050939 Medicine could very soon have a new ally in the fight against cancer: Terbium-161. Its most important weapon: Conversion and Auger electrons. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have developed a new treatment method based on terbium-161 to treat smaller tumors and metastases in a more targeted way. The nuclide was produced at the TUM's research neutron source. In cooperation with the Paul Scherrer Institute it has been tested on cancer cells successfully. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-radionuclide-treatment-small-tumors-metastases.html Cancer Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:03:16 EST news227440975 A new treatment for colon cancer that combines a chemotherapy agent approved to treat breast cancer and a cancer-fighting antibody is ready for clinical trials, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-breast-cancer-drug-colon-cells.html Cancer Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:00:01 EST news226756743 Although chemotherapy is used to kill cancer cells, it can also have a strong toxic effect on normal cells such as bone marrow and blood cells, often limiting the ability to use and manage the chemotherapy treatment. Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center reported at today's annual meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in Seattle that one possible approach to reduce this toxic effect on bone marrow cells is to modify the cells with a gene that makes them resistant to chemotherapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-gene-modified-stem-cells-bone-marrow.html Cancer Sat, 21 May 2011 05:36:52 EST news225174980 (PhysOrg.com) -- Localized hyperthermia has been used occasionally with cancer drugs for some time, but until now, the reason it helps has been a mystery. In a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have discovered that the addition of heat inhibits homologous recombination so the cancer cells are unable to repair DNA damage caused by the cancer treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-cancer-drugs.html Cancer Tue, 10 May 2011 15:00:01 EST news224255592