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** BREAST CANCER News **
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** CANCER / ONCOLOGY News **
MicroRNAs Make For Safer Cancer Treatments
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126976.php
Viruses -- long regarded solely as disease agents -- now are being used in therapies for cancer. Concerns over the safety of these so-called oncolytic viruses stem from their potential to damage healthy tissues.
Sensitive Ultrasound To Spot Early-Stage Cancer
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126938.php
European researchers have developed highly sensitive ultrasound equipment that can detect tiny quantities of reflective microbubbles engineered to stick to specific tumour cells. The technique should pick up tumours early and improve patients' chances of survival.
Anticancer Drugs Are Often Used Off-Label In Children And Adults, Particularly For Palliative Care
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126929.php
A <b>Review</b> reporting off-label use of anticancer drugs reports that, between 1990 and 2002, the proportion of off-label drug use in children and adults ranged between 6•7% and 33•2%.
Brain Tumour Patients Are Hailing 2008 As The Year For Optimism
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126928.php
Scientists in the USA were asked in 2006 to give priority treatment to glioblastoma brain tumours and this week the prestigious <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7216/full/nature07385.
ARIAD Presents Preclinical Data On Kinase Inhibitor, AP24534, Demonstrating Mechanism-Based Activity In Solid Tumors
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126927.php
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA) today presented, for the first time, results of studies on its investigational, multi-targeted kinase inhibitor - AP24534 - showing anti-tumor activity in preclinical cancer models.
Engineering Viruses As Safe Tools For Cancer Treatment
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126893.php
Viruses - long regarded solely as disease agents - now are being used in therapies for cancer. Concerns over the safety of these so-called oncolytic viruses stem from their potential to damage healthy tissues.
Purple GM Tomatoes Could Fight Cancer And Increase Life Span
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126892.php
A team of scientists from the UK and other European countries has created a genetically modified (GM) purple tomato that in a pilot test significantly extended the life span of cancer-susceptible mice that were fed the new tomatoes compared to mice that were fed normal tomatoes.
AACR-Prevent Cancer Foundation Award To Be Presented To Meyskens
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126881.php
Frank L. Meyskens, Jr., M.D., one of the "fathers" of the field of cancer chemoprevention, has been selected to receive the seventh annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)-Prevent Cancer Foundation Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention Research.
Pediatric Oncology Research Boosted By $330,000 Funding Of Scholar At Case Western Reserve
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126869.php
St. Baldrick's Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, awarded $330,000 to fund Alex Huang, M.D., Ph.D., of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine as a St.
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** CERVICAL CANCER / HPV VACCINE News **
National Vaccine Information Center Says Government Denies Gardasil Risks
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126924.php
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the <b>Centers for Disease Control (CDC)</b> and <b>Food and Drug Administration (FDA)</b> to publicly release the study design, data and names of principal investigators involved in a statement this week maintaining that Gardasil vaccine is safe with no serious side effects.
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** COLORECTAL CANCER News **
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** LUNG CANCER News **
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** LYMPHOMA / LEUKEMIA News **
GPC Biotech Presents New Pre-Clinical Data On RGB-286638 Broad-Spectrum Kinase Inhibitor At EORTC-NCI-AACR Meeting
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126979.php
GPC Biotech AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: GPC, NASDAQ: GPCB) today reported that pre-clinical data on RGB-286638, the Company's multi-targeted protein kinase inhibitor, were presented at the 20th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva, Switzerland in a poster entitled, "RGB-286638 is a novel multi-targeted protein kinase inhibitor with activity in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) models," (Abstract #578).
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** PROSTATE / PROSTATE CANCER News **
Recovery Of Sexual Function Following Radical Prostatectomy: Self-Reports At Postoperative Year One
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126944.php
PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA (UroToday.com) - This was a pilot randomized clinical trial (n=44) in an academic health science center that was to evaluate three approaches to pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) following radical prostatectomy.
Gene Found Activated In 70% Of Prostate Cancer Cases, Report George Washington University Medical Center Scientists
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126943.php
A gene has been found activated in 70% of prostate cancer tumors, the same gene that has been discovered activated in a majority of breast cancer cases, report scientists at the George Washington University Medical Center led by Dr.
Therapeutic Starvation And Autophagy In Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm For Targeting Metabolism In Cancer Therapy
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126899.php
UroToday.com - In the online edition of <i>The Prostate</i>, Robert S. DiPaola and co-investigators reported their research on autophagy. Autophagy is a mechanism of cellular resistance or alternatively cell death.
Prognostic Value Of Her-2/Neu And DNA Index For Progression, Metastasis And Prostate Cancer-Specific Death After Radical Prostatectomy
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126898.php
UroToday.com - In the online version of the <i>International Journal of Cancer</i>, Dr. Sumit Isharwal and associates from Johns Hopkins University reported on the prognostic association between the Her-2/neu oncoprotein expression, abnormal DNA content and prostate cancer (CaP) progression.
Does Prostate Growth Confound Prostate Specific Antigen Velocity? Data From The Baltimore Longitudinal Study Of Aging
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126897.php
UroToday.com - In the online version of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Stacy Loeb and colleagues reported on the relationship between prostate growth and PSA changes. As background, PSA isoforms, PSA density, and PSA velocity all help to determine if an elevated PSA is due to prostate cancer (CaP) or benign causes.
Reducing Health Disparities At The American Public Health Association 136th Annual Meeting And Exposition
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126872.php
Experts from the Center for Minority Health (CMH) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health are addressing the successes and challenges of reducing health disparities at the American Public Health Association 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, Oct.
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