News tagged with cancer biology

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Higher as well as regular tea consumption benefits found

The benefits of tea drinking have been shown again in a study that has found the risk of ovarian cancer is reduced in tea drinkers.

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Research identifies targeted molecular therapy for untreatable NF1 tumors

Researchers conducting a preclinical study in mice successfully used targeted molecular therapy to block mostly untreatable nerve tumors that develop in people with the genetic disorder Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1).

Cancer created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

To fight incurable metastatic breast cancer, resistance must be broken

One of the most frustrating truths about cancer is that even when a treatment works, it often doesn't work for long because cancer cells find ways to resist. However, researchers reporting studies done in mice in the December ...

Cancer created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop novel 3-D culture system for inflammatory breast cancer

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very rare and aggressive disease that progresses rapidly and is associated with a very low survival rate. To understand how this type of cancer spreads, it's crucial to characterize the ...

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

Researches discovered genes that predict whether trastuzumab will work for breast cancer patients

Adding the drug trastuzumab to chemotherapy prevents cancer recurrence and improves survival in a large number of women with early stage HER2-positive breast cancer. But trastuzumab does not stop tumors from returning in ...

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A study of fruit fly genes reveals how molecules cooperate to induce tumor formation

Cancer biologists have known for decades that even the most potent cancer-causing genes do not act alone. Yet, identifying which combinations of genetic changes can cause a tumor to form and disease to progress ...

Genetics created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breast cancer drug could hold the key to fighting other tumours

New research out of the United Kingdom is showing that a common drug used in the fight against breast cancer could also be employed in the fight against other tumours. The drug in question is geldanamycin, ...

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Research shows immune system response is detrimental to novel brain cancer therapy

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the response of natural killer (NK) cells is detrimental to glioblastoma virotherapy, a novel way of treating malignant brain cancer by injecting a virus into the tumor. ...

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Researchers identify a mechanism for the transformation of colon polyps

The causes underlying the development of certain types of common cancers have not yet been elucidated. In order to better determine the origin and the sequence of events responsible for the onset of colon cancer, the teams ...

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Cancer drug shows promise in eradicating latent HIV infection

Breakthrough drugs have made it possible for people to live with HIV longer than ever before, but more work must be done to actually cure the disease. One of the challenges researchers face involves fully eradicating the ...

HIV & AIDS created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop novel treatment for prostate cancer

(Medical Xpress)—The work of a team of Wake Forest researchers developing a novel drug for prostate cancer treatment is featured on the cover of the Nov. 26 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

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COUP-TFII sparks prostate cancer progression

Prostate cancer presents a dilemma for patients and the physicians who treat them. Which cancers are essentially indolent and present no risk and which are life threatening? Which can be watched and which need aggressive ...

Cancer created Nov 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists uncover a novel cooperative effort to stop cancer spread

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have uncovered a group of what have been considered relatively minor regulators in the body that band together to suppress the ...

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New mechanism for cancer progression discovered

The protein Ras plays an important role in cellular growth control. Researchers have focused on the protein because mutations in its gene are found in more than 30 percent of all cancers, making it the most prevalent human ...

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

Metabolic protein launches sugar feast that nurtures brain tumors

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have tracked down a cancer-promoting protein's pathway into the cell nucleus and discovered how, once there, it fires up a glucose metabolism pathway on which ...

Cancer created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast