Stress fuels breast cancer metastasis to bone
Stress can promote breast cancer cell colonization of bone, Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology investigators have discovered.
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Combination treatment with lapatinib and pazopanib doesn't improve outcomes for patients with IBC
Inflammatory breast cancer is a very aggressive type of cancer associated with early metastasis and poor survival rates, and the prognosis is even worse for patients with tumors expressing the ErbB2 receptor. The ErbB2-inhibiting ...
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Jun 01, 2012 |
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Researchers discover new combination of 2 previously approved FDA drugs to treat lung cancer
A team of researchers led by Dr. Goutham Narla at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in collaboration with scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, have discovered a previously unrecognized ...
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Jun 01, 2012 |
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Cancerous tumors deliver pro-metastatic information in secreted vesicles
Cancer researchers have known for well over a century that different tumor types spread only to specific, preferred organs. But no one has been able to determine the mechanisms of organ specific metastasis, the so-called ...
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May 29, 2012 |
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Limits to growth: Scientists identify key metastasis-enabling enzyme
(Medical Xpress) -- On the complex road to eradicating cancer, controlling or preventing metastatic growth initiated by primary tumors is high on the to-do list. A key area of such research is the development ...
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May 22, 2012 |
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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 ...
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May 21, 2012 |
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Stopping cell migration may help block fibrosis and the spread of cancer
(Medical Xpress) -- Discoveries by a Yale-led team of scientists could lead the way for development of new therapies for treating fibrosis and tumor metastasis. The researchers have both uncovered a signaling ...
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May 21, 2012 |
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Scientists find gene that inhibits pancreas cancer spread
Scientists have identified a gene that slows the spread of pancreatic cancer tumours, paving the way for targeted treatment of one of the deadliest forms of the disease, said a paper published Sunday.
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Apr 29, 2012 |
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RANK protein promotes the initiation, progression and metastasis of human breast cancer
Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have shown that overactivation of the RANK signalling pathway promotes the initiation, progression and metastasis of tumours in human breast epithelial ...
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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New signaling pathway linked to breast cancer metastasis
Lymph nodes help to fight off infections by producing immune cells and filtering foreign materials from the body, such as bacteria or cancer cells. Thus, one of the first places that cancer cells are found when they leave ...
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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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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Researchers identify mechanism that makes breast cancer invasive
A new study has identified a key mechanism that causes breast cancer to spread. The research, published by Cell Press on March 30th in the journal Molecular Cell, enhances our knowledge about the signals that drive cancer ...
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Mar 29, 2012 |
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Cancer paradigm shift: Biomarker links clinical outcome with new model of lethal tumor metabolism
Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have demonstrated for the first time that the metabolic biomarker MCT4 directly links clinical outcomes with a new model of tumor metabolism that has patients "feeding" ...
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Inhibiting cell migration in breast cancer
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research together with colleagues from the University of Fribourg have discovered a signaling mechanism controlling mobility ...
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Mar 14, 2012 |
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Telomere failure, telomerase activation drive prostate cancer progression
Genomic instability caused by an erosion of the protective caps on chromosomes, followed by activation of an enzyme that reinforces those caps, allows malignant cells to evade destruction and acquire more deadly characteristics, ...
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Feb 21, 2012 |
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