News tagged with types of cancer
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Stem-cell-protecting drug could prevent the harmful side effects of radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is one of the most widely used cancer treatments, but it often damages normal tissue and can lead to debilitating conditions. A class of drugs known as mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors can ...
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Sep 06, 2012 |
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Decreased breast cancer risk linked to active lifestyle
(Medical Xpress)—An active lifestyle such as doing housework, brisk walking and gardening helps to reduce the chance of getting breast cancer, new research shows today.
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Sep 05, 2012 |
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Possible therapy for tamoxifen resistant breast cancer identified
(Medical Xpress)—A study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) has discovered how tamoxifen-resistant ...
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Aug 30, 2012 |
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Scientist creates new cancer drug that is ten times more potent
Legend has it that Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." University of Missouri researchers are doing just that, but instead of building mousetraps, ...
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Aug 29, 2012 |
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Cancer survival in Germany after the fall of the Iron Curtain
Data from the 1970s and 1980s show that people affected by cancer survived significantly longer in West Germany than cancer patients behind the Iron Curtain. Looking at a diagnosis period from 1984 to 1985 in the former German ...
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Aug 23, 2012 |
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A 'game-changer': By studying animal health, researchers find improved ways for developing, testing cancer therapies
(Medical Xpress) -- A group of Kansas State University researchers has made valuable findings in the search for cancer's cure.
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Aug 15, 2012 |
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Exercise may improve quality of life during and after cancer
Exercise may improve quality of life for people with cancer, according to Cochrane researchers. In two separate Cochrane systematic reviews, the authors gathered together evidence showing that activities such as walking and ...
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Aug 14, 2012 |
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Researchers discover a new therapy that prevents lung cancer growth in mice
Lung cancer is one of the most aggressive types of cancer and the most common cause of death from this disease worldwide. Despite the progress in the molecular biology of lung cancer achieved in recent years, the mechanisms ...
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Aug 13, 2012 |
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Scientists use worms to unearth cancer drug targets
Through novel experiments involving small nematode worms, scientists from Wyoming have discovered several genes that may be potential targets for drug development in the ongoing war against cancer. Specifically, researchers ...
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Aug 09, 2012 |
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Immune responses can be generated locally within human melanoma skin metastases
In many types of cancer, activated immune cells infiltrate the tumor and influence clinical outcome. It is not always clear where these cells are activated, but results reported in Cancer Research, a journal of the Americ ...
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Jul 31, 2012 |
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Detecting cancer with lasers has limited use, researchers say
One person dies every hour from melanoma skin cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. A technique, known as photoacoustics, can find some forms of melanoma even if only a few ...
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Jul 30, 2012 |
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Researchers study vaccine as potential weapon against aggressive brain tumors
Researchers at Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute (NBTI) are seeking to understand if a vaccine made from a patient's own blood cells may slow the growth of a type of brain tumor. The trial is studying the vaccine's effect ...
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Jul 24, 2012 |
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Researchers find driver of breast cancer stem cell metastasis
The finding involves the cancer gene RhoC, which has previously been shown to promote metastasis of many types of cancer. RhoC levels increase as breast cancer progresses and high levels of RhoC are associated with worse ...
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Jul 24, 2012 |
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Tel Aviv University research links childhood obesity to cancer risk
Parents are increasingly conscious of the dangers of childhood obesity. There is a growing recognition of health problems associated with extra pounds, including the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and joint and muscle pain.
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Jul 23, 2012 |
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Access to clinical trials drives dramatic increases in survival from childhood cancer
More children are surviving cancer in Britain than ever before according to new research published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology [1] today (Wednesday). The improvement in survival has been driven by the increa ...
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Jul 17, 2012 |
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