News tagged with cancer biomarkers


Cancer biomarkers re-evaluated

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a procedure to test the clinical benefits of cancer biomarkers. The method could radically shorten the path from the lab to their application.

Cancer created Jul 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Technique spots disease using immune cell DNA

When a person is sick, there is a tell-tale sign in their blood: a different mix of the various types of immune cells called leukocytes. A group of scientists at several institutions including Brown University has discovered ...

Medical research created Jul 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify new cancer stem cell mechanism

Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have uncovered a link between two genes which shows how stem cells could develop into cancer.

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

Biomarker panel to screen for pancreatic cancer may be possible

The development of a highly accurate, blood-based pancreatic adenocarcinoma screen that would be accurate enough to test the general population for this deadly disease may not be far out of reach, according to data presented ...

Cancer created Jun 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify promising biomarkers and new therapeutic targets for kidney cancer

Using blood, urine and tissue analysis of a unique mouse model, a team led by UC Davis researchers has identified several proteins as diagnostic biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets for kidney cancer. Subject to follow-up ...

Cancer created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover biomarker for advanced bile duct fibrosis and bile duct cancer

GW Researchers, Jeffrey M. Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, and Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine at GW School of Medicine ...

Cancer created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biomarker predicts response to cancer treatment

VIB researcher Diether Lambrechts, associated with KU Leuven, has discovered a biomarker that might potentially predict which patients will benefit more from treatment with bevacizumab (Avastin). If validated, this discovery ...

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

Google goes cancer: Researchers use search engine algorithm to find cancer biomarkers

The strategy used by Google to decide which pages are relevant for a search query can also be used to determine which proteins in a patient's cancer are relevant for the disease progression. Researchers from Dresden University ...

Cancer created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Early biomarker for pancreatic cancer identified

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have identified a new biomarker and therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer, an often-fatal disease for which there is currently ...

Cancer created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover biomarkers for prostate cancer detection, recurrence

Alterations to the "on-off" switches of genes occur early in the development of prostate cancer and could be used as biomarkers to detect the disease months or even years earlier than current approaches, a Mayo Clinic study ...

Cancer created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DNA methylation level is marker of breast cancer risk

(HealthDay) -- Women with high levels of white blood cell (WBC) DNA methylation at the ATM loci have a significantly increased risk of breast cancer, regardless of family history or menopausal status, according ...

Cancer created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients

Physical activity is associated with reduced breast and colon cancer mortality, but there is insufficient evidence on the association for other cancer types, according to a study published May 8 in the Journal of the National Ca ...

Cancer created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New data improve understanding of breast cancer's multiple varieties

New findings presented at Europe's leading breast cancer translational research conference this year shed new light on the many biological differences between individual breast cancers.

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Measuring progesterone receptor expression to improve hormone-receptor-positive cancer management

American and Spanish researchers have found potential ways for doctors to improve the treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer even if they lack access to costly multi-gene tests, as they report at the 4th IMPAKT ...

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

New biomarker may predict prognosis for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Researchers at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine have shown that G protein-coupled receptor expression may predict the prognosis of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Their findings may identify ...

Cancer created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0