Penn named a 'Breast Cancer Center of Excellence' by Department of Defense
...iagnosed, tumor cells may have already traveled to distant sites in the body where they may lay dormant in a ...ancers that appear cured may resurface as local or distant recurrences 10 to 20 years later. Breast cancer progression from disease onset to distant metastasi...Clinical factors can help determine risk of prostate cancer death after radical prostatectomy
...urrence and the development of local recurrence or distant metastasis. Given the protracted natural history, the researchers had previously identified clinical variables to help stratify patients for risk of metastasis: time from surgery to biochemical recurrence, pathological Gleason score (a grading syste...Combination scanner may increase accuracy in detecting spread, recurrence of head, neck cancer
...was shown to be 80 percent accurate for staging of distant metastasis, such as the spread of head and neck ca...pain and other problems. In addition to detecting distant metastasis, the study found the PET/CT more than 70 percent accurate in evaluating cancer recurrence...Injuries higher among obese people, study finds
...parking lots, bus stations and airports, came in a distant second, with 16.3 percent of all reported injuries happening there. More than a third of the injuries (35.2 percent) were caused by acute overexertion. Falls took second place, causing 29.9 percent of the injuries. Injury rates reported by people who...Neural cell transplants fight immune attack in mice with multiple sclerosis
...expanding their numbers extensively, and moving to distant sites of injury within the brain. In 2003, they reported that neural stem cells transplanted into mice with an MS-like disease were able to migrate to multiple areas of myelin and nerve fiber damage in mice with an MS-like disease, repair this damage...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
...ill, its decisions were viewed as cold-hearted and distant in letters to committee members and in press headlines. Further inflaming public sentiments was the military's allocation of supplies to soldiers with non-life-threatening sexually transmitted diseases. Eager to return soldiers to active duty, wart...Delaying radiation for prostate cancer does not affect outcome
...vival, disease specific survival, the incidence of distant metastases, and treatment failure for men who delayed 3DCRT more than nine months. Moreover, there was no difference in outcome for men with low-, intermediate-, and high-risk tumors who delayed treatment less than or more 3 months. For men with loca...'Real life' study clarifies risk of recurrence for high-risk breast cancer patients
...factor associated with a higher risk of developing distant or local relapse." "Our results reflect what happens in an unselected population of breast cancer patients, so they are very close to the clinical reality," Dr. Cazzaniga added. "In clinical practice, benefits do not derive only from one study, but f...Children living near major roads at increased risk of asthma
...easurements of pollution around the homes near and distant from major roads, and to see if children who live in areas with heavy traffic develop asthma as we follow them," McConnell says. McConnell noted that California has passed a law that prohibits building any new school within 500 feet of a freeway or...Children living near major roads at higher asthma risk
...easurements of pollution around the homes near and distant from major roads, and to see if children who live in areas with heavy traffic develop asthma as we follow them," McConnell said. McConnell noted that California has passed a law that prohibits building any new school within 500 feet of a freeway or...Dermatologists use immunotherapy to treat warts
...ly treat the injected wart and also helps to treat distant non-injected warts, according to a study in the Ma...se of fungal infections) clears the wart and other distant and distinct warts. These skin test antigens, although they can not cause or promote infection thems...News tips from the journal of Neuroscience
...nded by the loss of oligodendrocytes both near and distant from the injury site. Using a 42 d protocol, the authors differentiated the H7 hESC line into OPCs. They then transplanted the oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPCs) into the site of a contusion injury that caused moderate hindlimb motor impairment. ...Stents that release medication appear more effective than traditional stents
...s of long-term restenosis. A goal that seemed very distant only a decade ago appears now to have been achieved," the authors write. (JAMA. 2005;293:2154-2156. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com )...Study reveals new data on how lyme disease is spread
...y point at the tick bite site through the blood to distant sites such as the brain, heart, and joints. This s... with erythema migrans often develop complications distant from the tick bite location. Older patients without a past episode of Lyme disease are at particular...Male combat veterans rank high in heart disease risk
...unger veterans of more recent wars, older men with distant combat exposure had higher odds of heavy smoking, heavy drinking and obesity, but lower odds of physical inactivity compared to non-veterans or non-combat veteran controls," Johnson said. Results from the study suggest that combat exposure may exert...New study finds combat vets face more cardiovascular risks
...unger veterans of more recent wars, older men with distant combat experience had higher odds of heavy smoking, heavy drinking and obesity but lower odds of physical inactivity compared to non-military and non-combat military controls. "Our results suggest that combat exposure may exert long-term adverse effe...Used in a new way, RNA interference permanently silences key breast cancer gene
...reast tumors either at the site of injection or at distant sites typically involved in metastatic breast cancer in this mouse model. Arlinghaus points out that a human therapy based on these findings is not on the horizon because lentivirus delivery systems haven't been approved for human use yet, and becaus...SKCC's Gennadi Glinsky addresses predicting risk in cancer treatment outcome
... indicates a short interval to disease recurrence, distant metastasis, and death after therapy in cancer patients diagnosed with 10 distinct types of cancer, including prostate, breast, lung, ovarian, bladder, lymphoma and acute myeloid leukemia. Applying comparative translational genomics, the researchers s...Maternal iron deficiency disrupts mother/child interaction
...appropriate times more often and appeared bored or distant more frequently than the other mothers. At nine months, the babies of the three groups of mothers also behaved differently. For example, the babies of the mildly iron-deficient women were less responsive and less involved with their mothers. When...Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
...also twice as likely to develop metastases in more distant lymph nodes. Detailed analysis of the nodes themselves found greater numbers of both blood vessels and lymphatic vessels in metastatic nodes of the transgenic mice, compared with cancer-containing nodes in normal mice. In addition, the transgenic m...