National Cancer Gene Therapy Foundation gives $4.0 million in research grants
...d eliminate minimal residual disease in women with breast cancer, and to wipe out any microscopic cancer dep...ne that is overexpressed in about one-out-of-three breast cancers. Using a specially developed laboratory animal model, this group has demonstrated that the ...Other highlights in the May 5 JNCI
...e may be able to detect lymph node metastases from breast cancer. Lymph node metastases are an indicator of prognosis in breast cancer patients and a major criterion in determining the need for adjuvant chemotherapy. Although a ...Setting the gene expression base-line for breast cancer research
...or 'DNA chips', in order to understand and predict breast cancer onset, progression, and clinical outcome. Although important insights into breast cancer have been drawn from determining the expression 'profiles' of thousands of genes in tumors, t...Researchers confirm genetic link between hereditary breast and prostate cancer
...who are part of families with a hereditary form of breast and ovarian cancer. Researchers at Memorial Sloan-... "While the association between hereditary breast and prostate cancer has been suspected, this is the first study of its type to confirm the link," sa...New analysis gives cancer patients personalized prognosis
...ery. The researchers reported their findings using breast cancer as a test case in the April 26, 2004, onlin...nd genomic data, they said. In their case study of breast cancer, the Duke team developed methods that utilize diverse information including traditional clini...First study of resveratrol dietary supplement finds effect on breast and prostate cancers unlikely
... of resveratrol are unlikely to have any effect on breast and prostate cancer. Dr. Thomas Walle, Medical Un...iovascular disease or cancer of such organs as the breast or prostate gland when consumed in the diet or as a dietary supplement. However, he adds, it is stil...Malignant breast cancer cells to revert to normal with manipulation
...rk of fibrous and globular proteins that surrounds breast cells) of non-malignant breast cells can lead to genomic instability via oxidative damage. She describes how manipulation of the m...Exercise reduces blood estrogens, risk for breast cancer in post menopausal women
... women who exercise regularly lower their risk for breast cancer. "Exercise is an effective way for postmen...pausal women to increase their chances of avoiding breast cancer," said Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hut...MIT aims radar research at breast cancer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A breast cancer treatment based on MIT radar research that ...logy in St. Louis show that women with early-stage breast cancer who received the MIT treatment prior to lumpectomy had a 43 percent reduction in the incidenc...Gene plays major role in formation of stem cells and cancer
...cer with stem-cell-like characteristics, including breast tumours and leukaemia. These assumptions will be investigated in subsequent research, which will also examine whether key regulators such as the BMI1 gene can be influenced by drugs....Received truth turned on end in cancer research
... leukemias, on the one hand, and solid tumors like breast cancer, prostate cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, etc, on the other. A research team at the Section for Clinical Genetics at Lund University is now claiming just the opposite: the same mechanism gives rise to all non-hereditary forms of cancer. The...First flavors form a lasting impression
...reastfeeding infants learn about flavors. Because breast milk transmits flavors of mothers' diets to nursing babies, breast-fed babies are exposed to flavor experiences during the nursing period. The Monell researchers suggest that this natural early flavor exposure serves to establish flavors of the moth...Survey reports fall in stem cell transplants for breast cancer
The use of stem cell transplantation in breast cancer treatment soared in the early and mid 1990s...ed the growth in the number of autotransplants for breast cancer. When the first results from phase III studies become available a wave of pessimism began to ...Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers identify significant smoking-induced genetic alteration
...has a role in promoting lung cancer, as it does in breast and ovarian cancer." The American Cancer Society estimates that 173,770 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004 and an estimated 160,440 people will die of the disease this year. Meireles is a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of...Study points to a promising new test for myelodysplasia, a blood disorder often leading to leukemia
...en successfully applied to the early prediction of breast and prostate cancer in the Malins laboratory, and has the potential to diagnose a variety of other human diseases. "The DNA test for MDS is highly predictive and most promising," said Malins, who is member of the National Academy of Sciences. "We b...Fox Chase Cancer Center research reveals how COX-2 causes ovarian cancer
...Ds) slow the growth of tumors, particularly of the breast and colon, but only now are researchers beginning ...lignancies. A strong family history of ovarian or breast cancer is evident in about 5 to 10 percent of ovarian cancer cases. While an average woman's risk o...'Meeting of the minds' leads new era in fight against cancer
...ences: Moderate exercise such as walking promotes breast cancer survival, reduces endometrial cancer risk; vitamin E lowers risk of prostate, bladder cancers; tobacco-induced genetic changes may be targets for intervention, prevention; new diagnostic tools from proteomics to fight ovarian cancer; the effec...Principal investigators named for international scholars in breast cancer research program
...opment of promising research scientists working on breast cancer in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America,...lational, clinical, epidemiological, or prevention breast cancer research at NCI-designated cancer centers or cancer centers that are members of the Associati...Study offers new model for breast cancer
...last few years have witnessed critical advances in breast cancer therapies. Still, the disease afflicts one ...Biomedical Research has successfully grafted human breast tissue into the mammary glands of mice. As a result, the mice formed functional breasts that are cap...Support needed for elderly breast cancer patients and for independent academic research
...sk assessment, greater attention to elderly cancer breast cancer patients, and a rethink on care after breast cancer were the four areas highlighted by participants at the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference ...