News tagged with bone cancer

Heparin-like compounds inhibit breast cancer metastasis to bone

Researchers from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have in collaboration with the University of Turku, Indiana University and two Finnish companies, Biotie Therapies Corp. and Pharmatest Services Ltd, discovered a ...

Cancer created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stabilizing Fanconi anemia with antioxidants

Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare genetic disorder which affects one person in 350,000. People affected by this disease have defects in DNA repair, and are hypersensitive to oxidative damage, resulting in bone marrow failure ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drugs reduce bone cancer damage but clinical guidance remains non-specific

Bone cancer-related fractures and pain can be reduced by drug treatment, but no one drug is superior, according to a review published in The Cochrane Library. Researchers undertook a systematic review of the current eviden ...

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'Fertilizing' bone marrow helps answer why some cancers spread to bones

Researchers found that administering a common chemotherapy drug before bone tumors took root actually fertilized the bone marrow, enabling cancer cells, once introduced, to seed and grow more easily.

Cancer created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rituximab promotes long-term response for patients with immune destruction of platelets

A new analysis concludes that rituximab, a drug commonly used to treat blood cancers, leads to treatment responses lasting at least five years in approximately one quarter of patients with low platelet counts and a risk of ...

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Researchers discover genes for fracture susceptibility and osteoporosis risk

(Medical Xpress) -- The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute's researchers have played a leading role in a recent study into osteoporosis, more than doubling the number of currently known genes in the disease.

Genetics created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Leukaemia cells have a remembrance of things past

Although people generally talk about "cancer", it is clear that the disease occurs in a bewildering variety of forms. Even single groups of cancers, such as those of the white blood cells, may show widely differing properties. ...

Cancer created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genes linked to osteoporosis, bone breaks

Researchers at The Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have co-authored the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of osteoporosis as part of an international ...

Genetics created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

BMD loss occurs early in androgen deprivation therapy

(HealthDay) -- The highest average change in bone mineral density (BMD) occurs during early treatment of nonmetastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer in men receiving intermittent androgen deprivation ...

Cancer created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer patients suffer treatment-related side effects long after completing care

More than 60 percent of breast cancer survivors report at least one treatment-related complication even six years after their diagnosis, according to a new study led by a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...

Cancer created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clinical insight improves treatment with new lung cancer drug

Men experience a marked drop in their testosterone levels when taking a targeted therapy to control a specific type of lung cancer. That's according to a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the April issue ...

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Stopping the spread of a deadly childhood bone cancer

Many children with the bone cancer, osteosarcoma, die after the tumor spreads to their lungs. In a critical step toward finding a way to stop metastasis, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say ...

Cancer created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer patients under-referred for orthopedic oncology services

There is a disconnect between the number of cancer patients estimated to have bone metastases and the number of patients who are sent for orthopedic care each year, states an article in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS). ...

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Novel technology allows for noninvasive imaging of prostate cancer

Use of a novel, noninvasive imaging tool allowed researchers to measure free prostate-specific antigen in prostate cancer models and to visualize bone metastasis in a tumor-specific manner, according to results published ...

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The path to personalized cancer treatment

In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalised approach to cancer treatments. The study is published in Nature on Thursday 29 Mar ...

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Bone tumor

A bone tumor refers to a neoplasic growth of tissue in bone. It can be used for both benign and malignant abnormal growths found in bone, but is most commonly used for primary tumors of bone, such as osteosarcoma. It is may be applied to secondary bone tumors, i.e. metastatic tumors found in bone.

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