European study highlights persistent 3 decade increase in childhood cancer incidence
...ries in 19 European countries. Analysis of 113,000 cancers in children and over 18,000 cancers in adolescents during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s showed how the incidence rates of cancer increased...Stressed mice quicker to get skin cancer
...onditions and cancer-causing UV light develop skin cancers in less than half the time it took for non-stressed mice to grow tumors. The Hopkins investigators say that if what they are seeing in mice has relevance in man, stress-reducing programs like yoga and meditation may help those at high risk for skin c...U of MN researchers set new standard of care for adult cord blood transplant patients
...ult umbilical cord blood studies for patients with cancers of the blood and bone marrow. These studies' findings provide solutions to the problems outlined in recently published studies in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). "The results of our studies are a triumph in a treatment that has been l...Protein 'key' could aid search for cancer drugs
...es that block cancer cells from multiplying. "All cancers are marked by some form of DNA replication gone awry, so a basic understanding of DNA replication is of paramount importance to those designing cancer-fighting drugs," said lead author Yousif Shamoo, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biolo...Physicians may need to dig deeper when treating HIV-related lymphomas
...riod, all lymphoma patients were treated for their cancers with one of two equivalent, common chemotherapy combinations: cyclophosphamide, vincristine, adriamycin and prednisone; or methotrexate, bleomycin, adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine and dexamethasone. USC/Norris researchers found that before...Lab study: Protein delivered via genetically engineered virus slowed glioblasoma multiforme growth
...tiforme (GBM) the most common and deadly of brain cancers usually claims the lives of its victims within six to 12 months of diagnosis. This statistic has changed little over the years, largely because the cancer grows so quickly that neither surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy can stop it. Now, researc...Understanding how prostaglandin prevents gut injury during radiation therapy
...ll intestine during radiation therapy. Conversely, cancers with mutations that inactivate bax and block its relocation to the mitochondria may be resistant to radiation therapy. This work may have significant clinical impact if the use of PGE2 could be shown to be effective for protection against radiation-i...International trial finds benefits of breast MRI in women at high risk
...diagnostic yield, meaning that MRI would detect 11 cancers in 1,000 high-risk women while mammography would d...nded for biopsy," she continued. "Three additional cancers were detected in those women." Women who undergo screening mammography have a significantly lo...Molecular tailoring of chemotherapy with novel imaging techniques
...h the exception of relatively uncommon examples of cancers for which we have tumor markers, we don't have reliable ways of predicting who is going to respond early on to chemotherapy," says Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Genetics, and Pharmacology. "Currently cancer pa...Other highlights in the December 1 JNCI
... applicators from Iowa and North Carolina. For all cancers combined and for most cancers analyzed, they found no evidence of a relationship with exposure to chlorpyrifos. However, increased...Tamoxifen's risks similar in African American and white women
...fference in the occurrence of contralateral breast cancers and thromboembolic events between African American and white women with breast cancer who are treated with tamoxifen, Worta McCaskill-Stevens, M.D., of the National Cancer Institute, and colleagues pooled data from 13 National Surgical Adjuvant Breas...Imatinib (Gleevec) has activity in AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma
... are showing that the drug is also active in other cancers that express some of the same proteins," said Henry B. Koon, MD, Instructor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, and lead author of the study. "Studies like this one represent an exciting time in oncolog...Mayo Clinic discovers potential marker for aggressive kidney cancer
...mprove treatment responses of patients with kidney cancers by protecting their immune system from being shut down. About Kidney Cancer There are different kinds of kidney cancers. Renal cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 85 percent of all kidney cancers. In the United States, an estimated 35,0...Herpes virus offers new hope in curing cancer
...arch has shown in animal models that certain adult cancers are responsive as well. Furthermore, some clinical trials for adult cancers have been launched," Dr. Cripe said. Existing treatments for neuroblastoma tumors include the surgic...Smokers' lung cancer risk identified in CT screening study
...illing more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, according to the American Cancer Society. The I-ELCAP study found that lung cancer develops in twice as many smokers age 50-74 (15 for every 1,000) than in smokers under 50 (6 per 1,000). The number of smokers developing lung cancer also i...Computer program helps doctors diagnose lung cancer
...adiologists with computers are able to detect more cancers than radiologists by themselves. We expect that CAD for lung cancer can achieve similar results," says Lubomir Hadjiyski, Ph.D., research assistant professor of Radiology at the U-M Medical School. Hadjiyski will present results of the study Sunday, ...New research shows stomach (gastric) cancer originates from bone marrow derived stem cells
...re-evaluation of current assumptions about how all cancers originate," said Timothy C. Wang, M.D., chief, Div... to new methods of diagnosis and treatment of many cancers particularly those that have been linked to chronic inflammation such as stomach, esophagus, lung, ...Stem cells' repair skills might be link to cancer
...to treat cancers, supporting an old idea that some cancers may start from normal stem cells that have somehow... Hedgehog activity has been found in certain cancers of the lung, brain, stomach, esophagus, skin, pancreas, bladder, muscle and prostate. Similarly, Wnt...Breast conserving therapy safe for hereditary breast cancer
...arly breast cancer. However, for hereditary breast cancers i.e., mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes the use...urrence rates for women with non-hereditary breast cancers treated with BCT. However, the researchers note that more than half the women suffered a cancer-rela...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
...ture, a simple finger prick also may predict which cancers are destined to develop in an individual, years, e...a recipe of drugs that will prevent or delay those cancers from ever developing. Their cocktail of cancer preventives might include refined forms of aspirin to...