JCI table of contents, March 1 2004
Vaccine nips breast cancer in the bud Preneoplastic lesions, detectable by breast cancer screening, are made up of altered cells that are not themselves cancerous but indicate an inc...Human health, astronomy, and environmental concerns merge at Dark-Sky meeting
... resulting melatonin levels on the growth of human breast cancer cells. Observatory directors from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres will talk about dark skies for research. Using beautiful images from the southern skies, Malcolm Smith, Cerro Tololo Observatory, will present "Dark Skies: Big Telescopes...Teens and young adults the new frontier in cancer says US cancer specialist
..., changers dramatically after the age of 10-12 and breast cancer before the age of 30-40 is different than in older women. But, the clinching factor for these cancer 'orphans' according to Professor Bleyer, is lack of participation in clinical trials. "If we are going to address the survival deficit it requ...Tagging faulty genes with fluorescent nanodots
...he reliability of an important diagnostic test for breast cancer, and other biomedical tests, is described b...rt to develop standards for a test that identifies breast cancer patients who would benefit from a particular drug therapy. The standards are expected to help...Double mastectomies significantly lower risk of breast cancer in women who are genetically at risk
...before it occurs can lower the risk of developing breast cancer by 90 percent in women genetically pre-disp...the two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 strongly linked to breast and ovarian cancer. Their findings appear in the March 15th edition of the Journal of Clinical Onco...Mastectomy dramatically reduces breast cancer risk among women with BRCA1/2 mutations
... that bilateral prophylactic mastectomy can reduce breast cancer risk by more than 90% in women with BRCA1 a...menopause without fear of significantly increasing breast cancer risk. Although the removal of the breasts and the ovaries does not completely prevent breas...Protein abundant in human tumors confers resistance to anticancer drugs
...mor models. Further, reduction of MUC1 in lung and breast cancer cells is associated with increased sensitivity of these cells to anticancer drugs. The researchers conclude that abnormal overabundance of MUC1 in human tumors promotes cancer cell survival, even in the presence of agents that normally ind...Protein inhibits cell growth, may contribute to breast cancer
...ll types and may play a role in the development of breast cancer, according to a report by researchers at Na... Lucas, Gelfand and Domenico compared normal human breast cells with 10 breast-cancer cell lines. All 10 tumor-cell lines had significantly less cdk6 than the...Final media advisory for the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-4)
...m in Europe that involves all the major players in breast cancer and is expected to attract a record 4,000 d...16 March 13.00hrs 1. Professor Lars Holmberg: Why breast self-examination can be harmful 2. Dr Alane Koki: Breast cancer chip brings personalised treatment ...Other highlights in the February 18 issue of JNCI
...ociated with tumor progression in prostate cancer, breast cancer, and central nervous system tumors. However, PML mRNA expression was not affected, and the PML gene was rarely mutated and was not subject to loss of heterozygosity. The authors present evidence that a proteasome-dependent mechanism may lead t...JCI table of contents, 16 February 2004
...m are transferred from mother to offspring through breast milk. Subsequently, adaptive mechanisms are requir...rder to maintain a steady supply of calcium to the breast for purposes of milk production. The factors involved in the regulation of calcium stores are largel...Lactating mammary glands sense calcium
...m are transferred from mother to offspring through breast milk. Subsequently, adaptive mechanisms are requir...rder to maintain a steady supply of calcium to the breast for purposes of milk production. The factors involved in the regulation of calcium stores are largel...Applying results of women's health initiative study to individual patients
...d HRT was putting women at risk for heart attacks, breast cancer, strokes and blood clots. "There are many w...the most conservative ones, particularly regarding breast cancer. "In releasing these results in July 2002, a generally conservative statistical view of the ...Scientists making advances in cancer prevention, detection and treatment to receive awards
...revention of hormone-related cancers, particularly breast cancer. The award recognizes outstanding achievements in the fields of epidemiology, biomarkers and prevention. Dr. Pike will deliver a lecture entitled, "The Prevention of Female Cancers Acting on What We Know," at 8:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 31, ...European Society for Medical Oncology Cancer Conference
...w progress on important topics such as advances in breast cancer, colorectal cancer, leukaemia, lung cancer, lymphoma, new therapies, pharmacology, prostate cancer, palliative and supportive care, health services, and public health, just to name a few. New treatments involving molecular targets, and combine...Other highlights in the February 4 issue of JNCI
...st irradiation (APBI) for treatment of early-stage breast cancer make clear the need for ongoing dialogue an...ive to mastectomy in the management of early-stage breast cancer. Because of the increasing interest in PBI--a technique that directs radiation only at the po...New mode of action discovered for tamoxifen
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- First used to treat breast cancer more than 30 years ago, tamoxifen now is one of the most widely used breast cancer therapies. University of Iowa researchers have discovered a new mode of action for tamoxifen,...Other highlights in the January 21 issue of JNCI
...ate metabolism alters the sensitivity of colon and breast cancer cells to common chemotherapy drugs, suggest...methotrexate. The authors found that colon and breast cancer cells that had the mutation had decreased MTHFR activity, altered intracellular folate distri...Space technology in new technique to fight breast cancer
...solution to help physicians in their fight against breast cancer that combines two techniques: magnetic reso...volved in the use of MRI to carry out biopsies for breast cancer and in studying the use of ultrasound for medical treatment. "I got the idea when I looked i...Wound-healing genes influence cancer progression, say Stanford researchers
...g is the drug Herceptin, which specifically treats breast cancers with an active version of the gene Her2/Neu. Most doctors don't have the ability to screen tumor samples for active genes, but they routinely test for the presence of proteins made by genes, as with Her2/Neu. Julie Sneddon, a biochemistry ...