Medical News on Cancer
Mutant Gut Bacteria Reverse Colon Cancer In Lab Models, UF Researchers Find
Jun 14, 2012
A mutant form of a meek microbe deals a gutsy blow to colon cancer, University of Florida scientists have discovered. The special bacteria halted abnormal inflammation, reduced precancerous growths and reversed progression of severe cancerous lesions in the large intestines of mice. The findings appear June 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... Read More
Genetic Variability In The Embryo May Predispose To Cancer In Adult Life
Jun 14, 2012
A study recently published in Nature Genetics provides new evidence that the genetic makeup of the embryo may cause the appearance of tumors in adult life... Read More
From Infection To Inflammation To Cancer: Scientists Offer New Clues
Jun 14, 2012
Chronic inflammation of the liver, stomach or colon, often as a result of infection by viruses and bacteria, is one of the biggest risk factors for cancer of these organs... Read More
Diesel Exhaust Fumes Cause Cancer, WHO
Jun 13, 2012
Following a week-long meeting of international experts, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) cancer panel has classified diesel engine exhaust as carcinogenic or cancer-causing to humans, more than 20 years after it was classified as "probably carcinogenic to humans"... Read More
Lung Cancer And Leukemia Cells Attacked By New Ruthenium-Based Drugs
Jun 13, 2012
A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows how light and strained ruthenium-based drugs may be more effective at fighting cancer cells and less toxic to healthy cells than a similar and widely used drug. Cisplatin is a common platinum-based cancer drug. But while cisplatin kills cancer cells, it also attacks healthy cells, causing debilitating side effects... Read More
How Chemical And Genetic Changes That Occur As Inflammation Progress To Cancer
Jun 13, 2012
One of the biggest risk factors for liver, colon or stomach cancer is chronic inflammation of those organs, often caused by viral or bacterial infections. A new study from MIT offers the most comprehensive look yet at how such infections provoke tissues into becoming cancerous... Read More
New Drug Treatment Extends Life In Advanced Prostate Cancer That Has Spread To Bone
Jun 12, 2012
Prostate cancer patients with advanced tumors that have spread to bone have a poor chance of surviving. Patients with the disease may now live longer with a new line of radioisotope therapy, said researchers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2012 Annual Meeting. The skeletal systemis the number one metastatic site in patients with prostate cancer... Read More
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: June 11, 2012
Jun 12, 2012
ALLERGY AND ASTHMA Evidence for a new therapeutic target for inflammatory skin diseases Many chronic inflammatory diseases, including atopic dermatitis and asthma, are initially triggered by an allergic reaction. However, the mechanism through which an allergic reaction becomes a chronic condition remains poorly understood... Read More
Cells Identified That Are Targeted By HPV, The Origins Of Cervical Cancer
Jun 12, 2012
Virtually all cervical cancers are caused by HPV infections, with just two HPV types, 16 and 18, responsible for about 70 percent of all cases, according to the National Cancer Institute. Scientists have presumed for decades that the cervical cancers that develop from HPV infection arise in a specific location in the cervix... Read More
ADAM28-Mediated Cancer Metastasis
Jun 12, 2012
ADAM28, a metalloproteinase belonging to the ADAM gene family, cleaves the von Willebrand factor (VWF) and inhibits VWF-mediated cancer cell apoptosis, thereby enhancing lung metastases, so inhibiting its expression gives a substantial reduction in lung metastases, according to a study published June 8 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute... Read More
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