Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...20.Each year 1.3 million Americans over age 20 are diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy. The financial impact and effect on quality of life for people diagnosed with one of these disorders is devastating, says Dartt. Eye diseases share many of the same underly...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...s in Iran, are running a trial of its use in newly diagnosed APL patients who have received no prior therapy, a...sing arsenic trioxide on a limited number of newly diagnosed patients, but we are the first group to suggest that it is acceptable as a first-line treatment," sa...Trial shows which brain cancer patients benefit from temozolomide
... 12 to 15% of all brain cancers with 2-3 new cases diagnosed per 100,000 population annually in Europe and North America[2]. The drug was approved in 1999 for use in patients who have relapsed after initial treatment. "Our results should encourage and fuel further multidisciplinary research, bridging the gap ...Certain genes boost fish oils' protection against breast cancer
...on and mackerel) were 34 percent less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than women who ate the least n-3 fatty acids from fish. They suspected that lipid peroxidation products-that is, substances produced when the fatty acids break down-were behind the protection. Gago-Dominguez explains that certain ...Researchers identify distinctive signature for metastatic prostate cancer
...ath in men, and an estimated 230,000 cases will be diagnosed this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Treatment for prostate cancer can cause significant side effects, including sexual and urinary dysfunction, yet may not be needed for men whose cancers are unlikely to spread. The researchers' fin...New treatment for fibromyalgia
...over a third of the patients--38 percent--had been diagnosed with depression. On a random basis, the patients were prescribed one of two treatments for a course of 12 weeks. About half, 104 individuals, received 60 milligrams of duloxetine twice a day. The remaining 103 patients were given a placebo. Both grou...New research suggests early diet may play key role in protecting against childhood leukaemia
...collected information on the diets of 328 children diagnosed with leukaemia and compared them with matched controls. "We found that regular consumption of oranges and/or bananas during the first two years of life was associated with a reduced risk of childhood leukaemia," Kwan reports. "These findings are co...Charting the future in prostate cancer care: A call to action
.... 9 -- This year, an estimated 230,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States, and 30,000 are expected to die from the disease. Today, about two million men are battling prostate cancer, and over the next decade, about three million more will be compelled to join the war. The need fo...New research suggests link between maternal diet and childhood leukemia risk
...esearchers compared 138 women who each had a child diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with a control group of 138 women whose children did not have cancer. The children of all the women in the study were matched by sex, age, race, and county of residence at birth. After comparing the women's d...Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
...tween 480 and 500 children under the age of 15 are diagnosed with leukaemia in Britain each year and about 100 ...f all cancers in children. The number of new cases diagnosed annually has been rising for at least 40 years, particularly in children under the age of five, he s...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...e disease, particularly among young children, were diagnosed in regions near the blast. Since then, reports show several hundred cases of thyroid cancer in young children in the three countries contaminated by Chernobyl, a trend that appears to be continuing. Despite the lack of resources available to initiate...Study reveals first genetic step necessary for prostate cancer growth
...d States. This year, more than 230,000 men will be diagnosed with the disease, in large part due to widespread ...e," Greenberg said. "Ideally, we'd hope that a man diagnosed at an early age with prostate cancer could be assured that his cancer wasn't likely to progress or t...Advances in tumor angiogenesis Dendritic cells co-opted to the dark side
...ally in the U.S. "One of the problems is that it's diagnosed late and we don't have effective treatments for it. "Dendritic cells play a central role in the generation of antitumor immune response," says Coukos. "As a result, it was believed that these were mostly good players in inducing tumor rejection." But...University of Pittsburgh receives $10 million grant for head and neck cancer
...r accounts for 4 percent to 5 percent of all newly diagnosed cancers in the United States. More than two-thirds of head and neck cancer patients have a locally advanced stage when diagnosed, which has a poor five-year survival even after treatment....Genetic clues found for common congenital brain disorder
...oose to terminate the pregnancy if the disorder is diagnosed soon enough. A reliable genetic test could provide better information earlier and could be used to reassure parents that a subsequent pregnancy was normal. The story of Dandy-Walker malformation has come full circle, note the authors. The name com...Embryonic stem cell therapy shows steady benefits in rebuilding infarcted heart
...s in the U.S. each year, with the number of adults diagnosed with heart disease exceeding 23 million, or 11.5% of the adult population. Previously thought of as concentrated in rich countries, ischemic heart and related cerebrovascular diseases alone caused an estimated 17 million or 23.2% of deaths globally i...Other highlights in the August 18 JNCI
...stoma is the most common extracranial solid cancer diagnosed in infants and children, but there are few predictors for the disease's prognosis. In a new study of neuroblastoma cell lines and tumor samples, Manel Esteller, M.D., Ph.D., of the Spanish National Cancer Centre in Madrid, and colleagues found that b...New prostate cancer gene identified
...more than 230,000 cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in US men in 2004; 98 percent of these men will live for at least five more years....Molecular therapeutics advance fight against brain cancer
...w cases of primary brain tumors are expected to be diagnosed in 2004, according to the American Brain Tumor Association. To further narrow the gap between diagnosis and effective therapy, physicians at the University of Pennsylvania Health System now offer several promising approaches to brain tumor treatment,...Outcome for acute lymphoblastic leukemia linked to gene expression patterns
...hers tested leukemic cells from 271 children newly diagnosed with ALL for sensitivity to four anti-cancer drugs: prednisolone, vincristine, L-asparaginase and daunorubicin. Using DNA microarray technology, the team determined the levels of expression of thousands of genes in each patient's leukemia cells, and ...