A protein that regulates cell differentiation in normal tissue may play a different role in colon and breast cancer, activating proliferation of damaged cells, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago ...
Sep 29, 2011
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Tagworks Pharmaceuticals, based at Radboud University Medical Center, has developed a new technique for the targeted delivery of chemotherapy for tumors in difficult cases. By way of controlled 'click-to-release' of the chemotherapy ...
May 4, 2018
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Patients with colon cancer but without distant metastases can benefit from a short course of immunotherapy while waiting for their surgery, as it can cause tumours to shrink substantially or clear up in a very short time. ...
Apr 6, 2020
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Could preventing colon cancer be as simple as developing a taste for yerba mate tea? In a recent University of Illinois study, scientists showed that human colon cancer cells die when they are exposed to the approximate number ...
Jan 23, 2012
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A multicenter research team has identified a biomarker that predicts which stage II colon cancer patients may benefit from chemotherapy after surgery to prevent a recurrence of their disease.
Jan 20, 2016
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Erectile dysfunction drugs may be able to help prevent or even treat colon cancer, researchers say.
Oct 2, 2013
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Many types of cancer are caused by gene mutations in the signalling pathways that control cell growth, such as the hedgehog signalling pathway. A new study from the Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal Nature Communications, ...
Aug 8, 2016
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A new research report published in the October 2014 issue of The FASEB Journal may make the early detection of cancer as easy as a simple blood test. This test, called the "lymphocyte genome sensitivity" (LGS) test, could ...
Sep 30, 2014
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The targeted anti-cancer therapies cetuximab and panitumumab are mainstays of treatment for advanced colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. However, many patients have tumors ...
Oct 17, 2017
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A collaboration between researchers at the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and the Department of Microbiology at Trinity College Dublin has identified a mechanism by which the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) ...
Dec 27, 2012
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