News tagged with cancer progression

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Scientists link excess sugar to cancer

Sugars are needed to provide us with energy and in moderate amounts contribute to our well-being. Sustained high levels of sugars, as is found in diabetics, damages our cells and now is shown that can also ...

Medical research created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

You are what you eat: Low fat diet with fish oil slowed growth of human prostate cancer cells

A low-fat diet with fish oil supplements eaten for four to six weeks prior to prostate removal slowed down the growth of prostate cancer cells -- the number of rapidly dividing cells -- in human prostate cancer tissue compared ...

Cancer created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lack of oxygen in cancer cells leads to growth and metastasis

(Medical Xpress)—It seems as if a tumor deprived of oxygen would shrink. However, numerous studies have shown that tumor hypoxia, in which portions of the tumor have significantly low oxygen concentrations, ...

Cancer created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Compound stimulates tumor-fighting protein in cancer therapy

A compound that stimulates the production of a tumor-fighting protein may improve the usefulness of the protein in cancer therapy, according to a team of researchers.

Cancer created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Evidence mounts for link between opioids and cancer growth

Opioid drugs used to relieve pain in postoperative and chronic cancer patients may stimulate the growth and spread of tumors, according to two studies and a commentary in the 2012 annual Journal Symposium issue of Anesthesiology, the ac ...

Cancer created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists find promising new approach to preventing progression of breast cancer

February 15, 2013 – Doctors currently struggle to determine whether a breast tumor is likely to shift into an aggressive, life-threatening mode—an issue with profound implications for treatment. Now a group from The Scripps ...

Cancer created Feb 15, 2013 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computational tool translates complex data into simplified 2-dimensional images

In their quest to learn more about the variability of cells between and within tissues, biomedical scientists have devised tools capable of simultaneously measuring dozens of characteristics of individual ...

Medical research created May 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New strategy prevents rheumatoid arthritis in mice

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have demonstrated a new strategy for treating autoimmune disease that successfully blocked the development of rheumatoid arthritis in a mouse model. They say it holds promise for improved ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Feb 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers link stress and pancreatic cancer in new paper

Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease with increased incidences in the recent years. According to NDSU researchers, epidemiological data show chronic stress in a negative social and psychological state such as depression ...

Cancer created Feb 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Promising new target for stifling the growth and spread of cancer

Cancer and chronic inflammation are partners in peril, with the latter increasing the likelihood that malignant tumors will develop, grow and spread. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego ...

Cancer created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Reconsidering cancer's bad guy

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that a protein, known for causing cancer cells to spread around the body, is also one of the molecules that trigger repair processes in the brain. These ...

Medical research created Nov 16, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers discover blood proteins associated with early development of lung cancer

A research team led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has discovered proteins in the blood that are associated with early lung cancer development in mice and humans. The advance brings the reality of a blood test ...

Cancer created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

FDA clears Pfizer drug for advanced kidney cancer

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new Pfizer drug for patients with advanced kidney cancer that has spread to other parts of the body despite treatment with at least one previous drug.

Medications created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Prostate cancer prognosis hope

Cancer of the prostate – the most common male cancer in the UK – presents in two distinct ways: a low-risk type, which may never cause any symptoms, and a high-risk form that needs treatment to prevent it spreading to ...

Cancer created Oct 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers say effective immunotherapy for melanoma hinges on blocking suppressive factors

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center have found that delayed tumor growth and enhanced survival of mice bearing melanoma were possible by blocking the reconstitution of myeloid-derived suppressor cells ...

Immunology created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast