Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
...nd are currently being tested against a variety of cancers in clinical trials. This study was designed to see if green tea catechin concentrate had any effect on the levels of GST enzymes in healthy individuals − research that could explain the teas anti-cancer properties. Healthy volunteers were ask...Smokeless tobacco more effective than cigarettes for delivering dangerous carcinogens into the body
...carcinogen known to produce lung cancer as well as cancers of the pancreas, nasal mucosa and liver in laboratory animals. Smokeless tobacco products have been proposed by some as safer alternatives to cigarettes, but they are not safe, said author Stephen S. Hecht, Ph.D., professor of cancer prevention a...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
...red, but survivors are at a higher risk for second cancers later in life. There is little data on mortality r...imilar for testicular cancer survivors with second cancers and the comparison group. But men treated between 1973 and 1979 who later developed cancer in the lu...High-intensity ultrasound may launch attack on cancer, wherever it lurks
...ntial to tackle both primary tumors and metastatic cancers that have spread to other organs -- all without the need for surgery, the research team reported in the Journal of Translational Medicine on Aug. 3 (a provisional version appeared online on July 11). The work, done by the engineers in collaboration w...Multicenter study nets new lung tumor-suppressor gene
...xamining whether these results apply to human lung cancers as well and, if so, how such information can improve treatment." ...Defects in critical gene lead to accelerated lung tumor growth
...ans each year than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined. Of the different types of lung cancer, s...ommonly mutated in lung cancer. These mice develop cancers of not just one lung cancer subtype, but exhibit all three forms of non-small cell lung cancer: aden...COX-2 inhibitors delay pancreatic cancer precursors in mice
...earchers. Studies of breast, colon, and pancreatic cancers have led researchers to believe COX-2 plays a key role in the development and growth of tumors. To study the effects of COX-2 on PanIN progression, Dr. Eibl and colleagues focused on the KrasG12D mouse, an animal model that mimics the early stages...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...gen, the anti-androgen therapy could encourage the cancers growth. This may also explain why androgen treatme...fused genes are known to play a role in blood cell cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, and in Ewing's sarcoma. A fused gene combination that plays a role in ch...Gold nanoparticles may pan out as tool for cancer diagnosis
...kers will be very helpful because certain types of cancers have specific surface markers," Irudayaraj said. In another study published last month in Nano Letters, Irudayaraj showed that the nanorods, when combined with a special imaging technique, were capable of recognizing cancer stem cells by binding to...Negative effects of plastic's additive blocked by nutrient supplements
...sians have much lower rates of obesity and certain cancers is that their diet typically includes greater use of soy products than Western diets. However, he pointed out, it is not known at what doses genistein would be protective or harmful in humans. Future studies would be needed to determine optimal doses...U-M team identifies gene that regulates blood-forming fetal stem cells
...al Institute investigator. Childhood leukemias are cancers that afflict blood-forming cells and hijack normal stem cell self-renewal mechanisms. "One of the next questions in our cross hairs is whether Sox17 gets inappropriately activated in certain childhood leukemias---and that's an idea that nobody had ...Additional mammogram readers improve breast cancer detection
...r detection rate increased 6.8% (from 5.27 to 5.63 cancers per 1,000 women screened) when the mammograms were read by two technologists and two radiologists. And adding two technologists only slightly increased the number of false positives, compared with readings by a pair of radiologists alone. Our resu...Obesity found to be a risk factor for multiple myeloma
...r more about the relationships between obesity and cancers such as multiple myeloma. The researchers believe their findings may lead to examination in greater detail of the BMI/multiple myeloma link, including the role of IL-6 and other chemical signals, energy metabolism, and other risk factors such as weig...Immune system 'escape hatch' gives cancer cells traction
...here say they have mapped out an escape route that cancers use to evade the bodys immune system, allowing the disease to spread unchecked. In a report published in the July 1 issue of the journal Nature Medicine, the Hopkins team, along with researchers from Florida and Nebraska, describe how myeloid-der...Tumor painting revolutionizes fight against cancer
...in the brain, where approximately 80% of malignant cancers recur at the edges of the surgical site. Current technology, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can distinguish tumors from healthy tissue only if more than 1 million cancer cells are present. But Cy5.5 can identify tumors with as few as 2000 c...Co-operation between GSF and clinic improves outlook for sarcoma patients
...ter treatment results in cases of colon and rectum cancers and of pancreatic carcinoma, as well. Under the guidance of GSF, a Virtual Institute of Excellence has been founded between the Clinical Co-operation Group Hyperthermia at the Grohadern Medical Centre and the Medical Clinic Charit Berlin, in order to...Cancer cures could work for canines and humans
... dogs might be able to tell us why and how certain cancers develop. In turn that could lead to better treatments for both canine and human cancer patients. An expert from the countrys newest Vet School will tell a symposium in London that studying tumours in dogs and humans could give us a better understa...JCI table of contents: July 12, 2007
...ncer development. However, one-third of new breast cancers lack detectable ER-alpha. These ER-alphanegative cancers are more aggressive and have a worse prognosis than do ER-alphapositive breast cancers, and have bee...Antibody retards growth and induces death in liver cancer cells
...to be overly active in more than 70 percent of the cancers we examined and, when targeted, leads to significant reduction in tumor cell proliferation and survival, said Dr. Monga. More importantly, targeting the PDGFR pathway in liver cancer cells does not appear to affect normal liver cells, making the tr...Kaposi sarcoma is unique among cancers because most tumors grow from a small number of different cells, whereas nearly all other cancers arise from a single cell, according to a study published online July 10 in the Journal of the Natio...