Fluorescence device to diagnose atherosclerosis and tumors described at optics conference
... technology may offer, especially because the most deadly tumors aggressively infiltrate neighboring tissue and are irregularly shaped with poorly defined borders. "Although our surgical goal is to remove as much tumor as possible without damaging healthy brain, distinguishing between the two can be extreme...Researchers study natural products that may prevent certain cancers
...min enhance radiation therapy in gliomas (the most deadly brain tumors) and other tumors in animals, and also work to learn how the compounds may make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation, while protecting normal tissue. "The differential effects of this class of compounds on normal and tumor cells are ...Disease progression model of pancreatic cancer developed by Penn researchers
...this, they hope to develop new treatments for this deadly disease. Advanced pancreatic cancer is among the most lethal of cancers, with a one-year survival rate after chemotherapy of only 17 to 28 percent of patients, according to the National Cancer Institute. Sunil R. Hingorani, MD, PhD, and David A. Tu...Jefferson researcher's results show promise for metastatic eye melanoma
...College may have found a better way to battle this deadly cancer. Researchers, led by Takami Sato, M.D., K. Hasumi Associate Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, have shown promising results from an early, phase 1-2 clinical trial of a novel trea...Statin use associated with reduced risk of pancreatic and esophageal cancers
..." Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most deadly forms of cancer; an estimated 27,000 patients are diagnosed each year, with close to 100 percent succumbing to the disease within the year. Esophageal cancer is three to four times more common among men than women and about 50 percent more common am...Presence of high-risk prostate cancer can be predicted without a biopsy, new study says
...rostate cancer is a very common diagnosis, it is a deadly disease in relatively few men. One in 6 men will d...men need aggressive treatment. Men who don't have deadly cancer potentially may instead be closely monitored, sparing them the side effects of treatments." ...New procedures more accurate in early diagnosis of GI cancers
...Although stomach cancer is the world's second most deadly cancer, the medical community has yet to identify a reliable gastric tumor marker that would identify individuals genetically predisposed to cancer or individuals in the early stages of the disease. Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Ko...Active vaccine prevents mice from developing prion disease
...curring naturally in the body. But the prions turn deadly by changing shape. These "misfolded" proteins tend to aggregate in toxic, cell-killing clumps. As an infection takes hold, prion proteins invade brain tissue and force normal proteins to adopt their configuration. In time, the diseased animal develop...Spinoff company receives $2.5 million NIH grant to build prototype scanner
... a malignant tumor reaches about 2 mm in size, two deadly events occur: angiogenesis and metastasis. Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels that supply the nutrients tumors need to grow. With the newly formed vessels in place, cancer cells that break away from the tumor can circulate through the...NIAID awards first $27 million using new bioshield authorities
...therapeutics and vaccines against some of the most deadly agents of bioterrorism including anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola virus, pneumonic plague, smallpox and tularemia. These awards are the first made by NIAID using authorities provided by Project Bioshield, which was signed into law on July 21, 2004. P...FDA approves Boostrix a new US vaccine for adolescents against pertussis
...ning to all, this highly contagious disease can be deadly in infants who are too young to be fully immunized. Although the disease is usually less severe in adolescents, morbidity can be considerable. In interviews with 314 adolescents with confirmed pertussis, a total of 83 percent of the adolescents mi...New prostate cancer studies look at hormone and protein connection
...tion of Canada. Prostate cancer is the second most deadly form of cancer in men after smoke related lung cancer. It is estimated by the Prostate Foundation of Canada that one in eight Canadian men will develop the disease, and one in four of them will die from prostate cancer. Damu Tang, assistant profess...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 57th annual meeting
...o a 37 percent reduction in risk overall from this deadly and difficult-to-treat form of brain cancer. [plenary session] ALS Tamoxifen may increase survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a study from researchers in Wisconsin. The drug, which is also used to treat breas...New research pinpoints best treatment for stroke
...usting medicines, due to the risk of a potentially deadly hemorrhage. But research presented by interventional neuroradiologists Jeff Carpenter, M.D., and Ansaar Rai, M.D., Assistant Professors at The Department of Neurological Surgery of West Virginia University School of Medicine, suggests more lives mig...Research urgently needed to treat blood clots in children
Potentially deadly blood clots are being missed in children, and more research and awareness is needed in the medical community, according to a study done in part at the University of Alberta. "We don't think of blood clots occurring in children, but they do," said Dr....New recommendation encourages more activist approach to lung cancer screening
...cer. Lung cancer is the most common and the most deadly cancer in the world, killing an estimated 1.1 million people around the globe each year. More people will die of lung cancer this year in the United States than will die from breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers combined. Lung cancer is usu...