Ovarian cancer does have early warning signs, Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center find
...urvival is about 90 percent; we know that an early stage can make a difference," says Dr. Yawn. Dr. Barrett...ut, however, that ovarian cancer can progress from stage to stage in a matter of months, making it far more aggressive than malignancies such as breast cance...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
... 13-cis retinoic acid in 1,265 patients with early stage lung cancer. Yet another chemical cousin has shown itself to be a chemopreventive. Lotan and associate professor Jonathan Kurie, M.D., discovered in a trial of 226 patients that 9-cis retinoic acid restored health to lung cancer cells that were alrea...Determining which pancreatic cancers are treatable
...urate in detecting new cancers and determining the stage of the disease. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. ...Researchers are studying photodynamic therapy
...ge, a light-sensitive drug is applied. The second stage involves shining a light or laser directly on the area treated with the drug. When the light is combined with the drug, phototoxic reactions are induced which destroy bacterial cells. PDT was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 19...Stem cell therapy effectively treats heart attacks in animals
...ther than itself. Because they remain in an early stage of development, mesenchymal stem cells do not trigger an immune response, unlike what would happen if more developed stem cells were used. "While the bone marrow adult stem cells do not have the same potential to develop into different organ tissue...Pioglitazone shown to reverse thickening of carotid artery wall
...ch may both reduce arterial blood flow and set the stage for unstable blood clots in the arteries to dislodge and potentially cause a heart attack or stroke. The reduction in thickness by pioglitazone, a member of a new class of type 2 diabetes drugs called thiazolidinediones (TZDs) suggests that this med...Air pollution may cause and speed up artery disease
...tribute to cardiovascular problems at a very early stage of the disease, similar to smoking, and enhances atherosclerosis, which is the underlying disease process of cardiovascular diseases," said study author Nino Kuenzli, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, division of environmental health, Keck School of ...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...60-beam laser facility that are helping to set the stage for National Ignition Facility - the nation's prem...he earliest stages of the z-pinch implosion. Each stage of this process has now been imaged, providing quantitative information about the mass distribution ...Maryland's Pearlin to receive GSA's 2004 Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award
...sychological determinants of mental health set the stage for a series of now classic articles that defined the stress process paradigm. To be eligible for the Career Contribution Award, papers must have been published within the past five years by a GSA member in the Behavior and Social Sciences section. T...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...60-beam laser facility that are helping to set the stage for National Ignition Facility - the nation's prem...the earliest stages of the z-pinch implosion. Each stage of this process has now been imaged, providing quantitative information about the mass distribution ...Pediatricians can help immigrant mothers by explaining child development, NICHD study suggests
...her of vowel and consonant sounds, is an important stage in the eventual development of language. Similarly, fewer than half of the immigrant mothers knew that an infant will begin to respond to his or her name at 10 months of age. "A mother who is aware of when the onset of babbling should occur and the...Improved acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment offers hope for eliminating irradiation
... chemotherapy early in treatment, and also set the stage for the current St. Jude clinical trial that omits the use of cranial irradiation in all patients, according to Ching-Hon Pui, M.D., director of the St. Jude Leukemia/Lymphoma Division, and American Cancer Society F.M. Kirby Clinical Research Profess...Breast cancer risk, prognosis and weight gain reduced with physical activity
... among women with the disease, and a more advanced stage at diagnosis. Fewer obese breast cancer survivors ... Irwin and colleagues studied 806 women with early stage breast cancer. The women were participating in the Health, Eating, Activity and Lifestyle (HEAL) stu...Higher radiation doses help some lung cancer patients live longer
... to other cancers. In the study, 72 patients with stage III (or advanced) non-small cell lung cancer were split into two groups and treated with different doses of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy in addition to chemotherapy. Of the 37 patients in the first group treated with a low dose of radiati...'Going through the motions' to better treat dementia
...them as well as their caregivers." The first stage of the study involves testing technology in the smart medical home located in the University's Center for Future Health. Once calibrated, the wireless technology will be installed inside the homes of patients who volunteer to take part in the study. ...Early disclosure: Post-operative radiotherapy improves progression-free survival in prostate cancer
...y was more frequently used for patients with early stage prostate cancer (e.g. those whose tumour is clinically inapparent / is found incidentally or where the tumour is palpable but confined within the prostate gland itself). This randomised clinical trial investigated the effect of radiotherapy given wi...Marijuana-like compounds may aid array of debiliating conditions ranging from Parkinson's to pain
...ted by marijuana. "Some of these drugs are in late stage clinical trials," says Cowley. "How they are able to control eating, however, has been a mystery." To shed some light on how they might work, Cowley and his colleagues gave mice a cannabinoid receptor blocker, termed AM251. "We found that the treate...Doctors can improve colorectal cancer screening rates
...United States. The prognosis is often dependent on stage of disease that is, a small intestinal polyp carries a better prognosis than a large mass. CRC testing, by fecal occult blood test (FOBT) or endoscopic examination, has been shown to improve prognosis by detecting disease earlier. That's why many he...New hope for ALS seen with genetic techniques, growth factors
... motor abnormalities to arise in the rats. At this stage many motor neurons were already lost, yet the VEGF treatment still provided benefits, prolonging the rats' lives slightly. The researchers then tested whether more receptors for VEGF might give the neurons an advantage. They genetically engineered m...New protein associated with aggressiveness in breast and ovarian cancer
...oth cancer types. For example, patients with early stage (I and II) ovarian cancer who had low Rab25 tumor expression had an 80 percent survival five years after treatment, compared to 50 percent survival if Rab25 expression was high. In women with advanced breast cancer, a low level of Rab25 protein expre...