Oncology & Cancer
Liver cancer linked to male sex hormones: HK study
Hong Kong researchers have found that men are more likely to develop liver cancer due to a type of gene which is linked to male sex hormones.
Jul 20, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Explaining heart failure as a cause of diabetes
Either heart failure or diabetes alone is bad enough, but oftentimes the two conditions seem to go together. Now, researchers reporting in the January Cell Metabolism appear to have found the culprit that leads from heart ...
Jan 3, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Study suggests tumors may 'seed' cancer metastases earlier than expected
A new study from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) helps explain why cancer metastasis is so hard to stop.
Oct 29, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Causal link between aneuploidy and cancer
One of the key unresolved question in cancer is whether aneuploidy, as defined by the presence of gain or loss of chromosomes, is the cause or the consequence of cancer development. Since the observations by Boveri and Von ...
Nov 24, 2015
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Medical research
Discovery of cancer-associated fibroblast origin gives new direction for pancreatic cancer research
A type of cell that plays a key role in pancreatic cancer can trace its origin back to a structure that forms during embryonic development, new research at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center shows. This new data, published recently ...
Jan 20, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Uncovering the spread of deadly cancer
For the first time, scientists can see pathways to stop a deadly brain cancer in its tracks. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have imaged individual cancer cells and the routes they travel ...
Aug 26, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
New regions of genetic material are involved in the development of colon cancer
Most research on human cancer genes have been focused on the regions of the coding genome (exons) that are to be translated in the form of amino acids thus proteins. But just before each gene, there is a regulatory region ...
Jul 23, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
How some prostate tumors resist treatment—and how it might be fixed
Hormonal therapies can help control advanced prostate cancer for a time. However, for most men, at some point their prostate cancer eventually stops responding to further hormonal treatment. This stage of the disease is called ...
Mar 18, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
New method characterizes structure of protein that promotes tumor growth
Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have developed a new method to identify a previously unknown structure in a protein called MDMX. MDMX is a crucial regulatory protein that controls p53 - one of the most commonly mutated ...
Apr 13, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Gene editing technique helps find cancer's weak spots
Genetic mutations that cause cancer also weaken cancer cells, creating an opportunity for researchers to develop drugs that will selectively kill them, while sparing normal cells. This concept is called "synthetic lethality" ...
Mar 20, 2017
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