The genetic basis of clear cell sarcoma of the kidney (CCSK), a high-risk childhood cancer known for metastasizing to bone and brain, has remained a mystery since the cancer was first described in the 1970s. A team of researchers ...
Nov 19, 2015
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Researchers at Rice University and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a way to mimic the conditions under which cancer tumors grow in bones.
Aug 5, 2015
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Low doses of the anti-cancer drug imatinib can spur the bone marrow to produce more innate immune cells to fight against bacterial infections, Emory researchers have found.
Apr 1, 2015
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Healthy bone is continuously involved in a dynamic process that includes bone deposition and bone resorption. However, when a person has cancer that spreads to the bone and bone marrow, the tissue becomes increasingly fragile, ...
Mar 17, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) have identified the biological mechanism that may give some cancer cells the ability to form tumors in dogs.
Feb 25, 2015
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Duke Medicine researchers have shown how gene mutations may cause common forms of cartilage tumors.
Feb 16, 2015
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Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson tapped into primal fears when he penned "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," a 19th century novel about a sinister physician, raising the question, "Can evil and good exist in the same person?"
Feb 9, 2015
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A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists has identified the population of white blood cells that tumors use to enhance growth and suppress the disease-fighting immune system. The results, which appear ...
Dec 18, 2014
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The genetic abnormality that drives the bone cancer Ewing sarcoma operates through two distinct processes - both activating genes that stimulate tumor growth and suppressing those that should keep cancer from developing. ...
Dec 16, 2014
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Although it is among the most highly metastatic of all cancers, multiple myeloma is driven to spread by only a subset of the myeloma cells within a patient's body, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found in ...
Dec 8, 2014
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