Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for brain cancer research from NCI
...ect on a person's quality of life than more common cancers because they can significantly disable cognitive, ...liomas. Project 3 will study a protein that brain cancers use to invade surrounding tissue so that researchers can attempt to design treatments that inhibit i...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage 'plague'
...t a time when outcomes for other diseases, such as cancers and heart trouble, have made dramatic gains, liver damage --described as the new plague of the 21st century --has yet to be understood and in turn, to become treatable. More women in the UK now die of liver failure than do of cancer of the cervix. "T...Residual tumor cells are a barrier to targeted cancer therapeutics
...targeted therapies might eliminate cancers. Curing cancers with short-term treatment, however, contrasts shar...a mouse model, 50 percent of c-MYC-induced mammary cancers were still able to grow. They also found that residual cancer cells persisted in all animals even t...Poor response to chemotherapy does not mean poor outcome for patients with rare breast cancer
...rcinoma patients; 41 percent of women with lobular cancers had residual lymph node disease compared to 26 percent of women with ductal disease. Yet, five years after treatment, breast cancer had not come back in 80 percent of women with lobular carcinoma, compared with 66 percent of ductal carcinoma patients...Combining hormones with external, internal radiation helps high risk prostate cancer patients
... 29, 2004 Prostate cancer patients with high risk cancers who are treated with both internal and external ra...ate cancer. For patients with higher risk prostate cancers defined as having at least two of the following three: a high Gleason score, a high PSA score and/o...Finding lymph node metastases in cancer
...ore accurate and less invasive. Correct staging of cancers is one of the most important parts of the work up of patients for both prediction of outcome and determination of the most appropriate treatment. But at the moment many staging techniques either require surgery or are not sufficiently accurate. Th...Patients with cancer detected on screening mammography undergo less toxic treatment
Women who have their breast cancers detected by physical examinations are at least twice as likely to undergo toxic treatments than those who have their cancer detected by mammography--regardless of the age of the woman, a new study shows. The study reviewed 992 women with invasive br...Scientists identify protein critical to melanoma growth
...tudies have shown that tumor cells in a variety of cancers weren't dependent on CDK2 for growth. Thus, blocking its activity had little effect on the out-of-control cells. The scientist's report today is all the more striking, because it reveals that melanoma does require the CDK2 enzyme for growth. Why this...National Academies news: Gulf War and Health
...ure to combustion products is linked to asthma and cancers of the nose, mouth, throat, and bladder, as well as to low birth weight and premature births in women exposed while pregnant; the data were weaker in these cases, however. The data on whether the majority of cancers, neurological problems, and other...Guidelines for following pediatric cancer survivors aim to reduce medical complications
...arch institutions collaborating to study pediatric cancers and develop cures for these diseases. The group in...ide. "The development of cures for most pediatric cancers has produced a growing population of childhood cancer survivors who are at increased risk for health...Researchers report early success using saliva to detect oral cancer
...NA patterns in saliva may be informative for other cancers and common diseases. "Saliva is a mirror of our bl...iva as a possible diagnostic fluid for other human cancers and system diseases, and we should have our preliminary data in the Spring." Wong said he and his co...ESMO and Imedex announce partnership for the World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer
...cologists working in the field of gastrointestinal cancers and through this collaboration, we can bring a high quality educational experience to a growing network of practicing physicians." The World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer ( www.worldgicancer.com ) is entering its 7th year, with the 2005 meetin...Other highlights in the December 15 JNCI
... study. Liver cancer is one of the most widespread cancers in the world, particularly in Asia and Africa where hepatitis and aflatoxin exposures are common. Risk factors include chronic alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, dietary aflatoxin exposure, hepatitis B infection, and hepatic cirrhosis, but there...USC researchers highlight disparities in cancer rates among racial and ethnic groups in California
...South Asian men, for example. Yet rates of certain cancers (such as liver and stomach cancer) are much higher...mong whom incidence rates declined. In situ breast cancers increased rapidly among all groups, indicating far-reaching effects of mammography screening. ...Study provides clues to alcohol's cancer connection
...nce has linked alcohol use to an increased risk of cancers of the stomach, esophagus, liver, breast, and colon. Researchers have never developed an adequate model to explain how ethanol or a metabolite of ethanol may cause cancer. Hypotheses abound, and include such diverse theories as acetaldehyde carcinoge...Silent risk of osteoporosis in men with prostate cancer
...ease was the presence of bony metastases (prostate cancers that had spread to the bones). Analysis also showed that primary care physicians were the most aggressive at managing osteoporosis while cancer specialists were the least....Study suggests Akt3 protein is key to melanoma's resistance to chemotherapy
...cers. For example, Akt2 activity has been found in cancers of the ovary, pancreas, stomach and breast. Although all three forms of Akt are present in melanoma cells, this study found that in melanoma, Akt1 and Akt2 remain inactive and, therefore, have little if any role in melanoma development. Robertson use...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
...uld identify the onset and risk of a wide range of cancers and other diseases so they could be prevented or t...use in the early detection of cancer, particularly cancers of the ovary, breast and cervix. His group uses proteomics to evaluate how blood proteins behave ove...Increased suicide rate is possibly linked to chemicals released from nearby asphalt plants
... suicide rate, the incidence rate of primary brain cancers in these neighborhoods from 1995 to 2000 showed an... brain, lung, blood, pancreatic, breast, and colon cancers had been or may have been using solvent contaminated well water for extended periods, Weisler said.D...Jefferson scientists find way to see breast cancer activity from outside the body
... we've shown the proof of principle. Several other cancers show characteristic activated genes that we might ...ion and mammography miss almost half of the breast cancers in women under 40, approximately one quarter of cancers in women ages 40 to 49 and one-fifth of canc...