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Your immune system: On surveillance in the war against cancer

Predicting outcomes for cancer patients based on tumor-immune system interactions is an emerging clinical approach, and new research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is advancing the field when it comes to the most ...

Genetics created May 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Penicillin prevents return of leg infection called cellulitis

(HealthDay)—For people who have suffered from cellulitis of the leg, a long course of low-dose penicillin prevents the painful infection from returning, British researchers report.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 02, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study finds plant proteins control chronic disease in Toxoplasma infections

A new discovery about the malaria-related parasite Toxoplasma gondii—which can threaten babies, AIDS patients, the elderly and others with weakened immune function—may help solve the mystery of how th ...

Medical research created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transition in cell type parallels treatment response, disease progression in breast cancer

A process that normally occurs in developing embryos – the changing of one basic cell type into another – has also been suspected of playing a role in cancer metastasis. Now a study from Massachusetts General Hospital ...

Cancer created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Aggressive cancer exploits MYC oncogene to amplify global gene activity

Whitehead Institute researchers have determined the mechanism used by c-Myc to increase the expression of all active genes in cancer cells. Elevated levels of c-Myc are linked to increased rates of metastasis, disease recurrence, ...

Cancer created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemotherapy may influence leukemia relapse: research

The chemotherapy drugs required to push a common form of adult leukemia into remission may contribute to DNA damage that can lead to a relapse of the disease in some patients, findings of a new study suggest.

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

Smoking may increase risk of prostate cancer recurrence, death

A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of California, San Francisco, researchers suggests that men with prostate cancer who smoke increase their risk of prostate cancer recurrence and of dying ...

Cancer created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Therapy targets leukemia stem cells

New research takes aim at stubborn cancer stem cells that are thought to be responsible for treatment resistance and relapse. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 14 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, provid ...

Cancer created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

First study of clonal evolution in Maxillary Sinus Carcinoma

Knowing how tumors evolve can lead to new treatments that could help prevent cancer from recurring, according to a study published today by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare.

Cancer created Sep 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel therapeutic targets identified for small cell lung cancer

Newly discovered molecular differences between small cell lung cancer and nonsmall cell lung cancer have revealed PARP1 and EZH2 as potential therapeutic targets for patients with small cell lung cancer, according to the ...

Cancer created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Radiotherapy after surgery has lasting benefits for prostate cancer patients

New research confirms that giving radiotherapy immediately after surgery to remove the prostate has long-term benefits for preventing the biochemical progression of the disease. After 10 years, 61 percent of men who received ...

Cancer created Oct 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with post-ACS depression benefitted from active treatment in clinical trial

A clinical trial of patients with post-acute coronary syndrome (ACS, heart disease) depression finds that a centralized, patient-preference program decreased depressive symptoms and may be cost-neutral over time, according ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smoking causes stroke to occur

Not only are smokers twice as likely to have strokes, they are almost a decade younger than non-smokers when they have them, according to a study presented today at the Canadian Stroke Congress.

Addiction created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

3L tubular bandaging significantly improves healing of chronic wounds, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—A characteristically inflamed, weeping sore that fails to heal, heals slowly or tends to recur is known as a chronic wound, a common debilitating and painful medical condition which requires ...

Medical research created Oct 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Trio of studies support use of PET/CT scans as prostate cancer staging tool

Recent studies have suggested that C-11 choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography (PET/CT) scans can be utilized as a staging and potentially therapeutic tool in prostate cancer. The results of three studies, ...

Cancer created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0