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First-of-Its-Kind Skin Cancer Screening Clinic Opens at University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), has announced the opening of the first clinic in the San Diego region dedicated to mapping and monitoring pre-cancerous moles. The mission of UCSD's Pigmented Lesion and Skin Cancer Clinic, under the direction Richard L. Gallo, MD, PhD, Chief, Division of Dermatology, is to provide a high level of specialized care for patients with melanoma or those with the potential for developing melanoma ....... |
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I don't know how true is this news, but here in Venezuela everybody is talking about it:
Vaccine against cancer of breast, colon and stomach. It looks promising. |
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I don´t know either , but let ´s read about Dr.Physician Jacinto Convit
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UK breast cancer death rates fall sharply
Death rates from breast cancer have fallen more dramatically in the UK than any other European county, cancer researchers have said. The study, which examined mortality rates in 30 countries over the past two decades, challenges claims that survival rates in the UK are worse than anywhere else in western Europe. Researchers, who reported a fall in death rates of about a fifth across all countries, said that the apparently poor survival rates in the UK are misleading because of the way cancer patients are registered, whereas population-based mortality rates are more reliable. England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland had the second, third, and fourth largest decreases of 35%, 29%, and 30%, coming after Iceland with a 45% drop, according to the study, published in the British Medical Journal. In France, Finland, and Sweden, death rates decreased by 11%, 12% and 16% in comparison....... |
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Lung stem cells vital to lung repair associated with poor cancer prognosis when found in tumor
Adult stem cells also may be cell-of-origin for lung cancer, study suggests Adult stem cells that are vital for airway repair in the lung but that persist in areas where pre-cancerous lesions are found are associated with a poor prognosis in patients who develop cancer, even those with early stage disease, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found. These adult stem cells are found in repairing areas after injury and also are found in pre-cancerous areas, suggesting that these cells may mutate and become cancer causing stem cells, making them a potential cell-of-origin for lung cancer and a possible target for prevention strategies and new targeted therapies............. |
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Lung Cancer Patients Lived Longer With Palliative Care in Study
Patients diagnosed with incurable lung cancer who were given palliative care usually reserved for people close to death had a better quality of life and lived longer than those getting standard treatment, researchers said. The study from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston suggests that preparing for death has a wide range of benefits. Patients who met with the hospital’s palliative-care team once a month were half as likely to suffer from depression. They received less aggressive care, including fewer rounds of chemotherapy, yet lived on average 2.7 months longer, according to the report in the New England Journal of Medicine.---- |
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Researchers identify potential new target for ovarian cancer
Inhibiting a cell division-regulating protein can improve response to taxane chemotherapy HOUSTON - For the first time, Salt Inducible Kinase 2 (SIK2) has been found to play a critical role in cell division and to regulate the response of some ovarian cancers to chemotherapy. Findings were reported by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the August issue of Cancer Cell. The study adds to growing evidence that combination therapies targeting different phases of the cell division cycle are vital for optimal cancer treatment. Researchers found that depleting SIK2 from ovarian cancers sensitized the cancer cells to paclitaxel, a commonly prescribed chemotherapeutic agent that inhibits cell division, making the drug more effective in stopping the cancer's growth. Levels of the SIK2 protein are increased in approximately 30 percent of ovarian cancers and are associated with poorer survival in women with the disease...... |
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Going for gold with cancer treatment
Tiny particles of gold could be the key to a better type of cancer treatment which Norwich scientists are developing. Girgis Obaid, a PhD student at the University of East Anglia, is using the gold nano-particles to carry a type of protein around the body. The proteins, called lectins, can recognise cancer cells and target them with drug treatment. He is using phthalocyanines, frequently used to dye everything from blue jeans to the ink in ballpoint pens. They are also used to treat skin cancer and cancer of the mouth, throat and gullet............... |
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Welcome to BMC Cancer published by BioMed Central
----------------------------------------BMC Cancer is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cancer research, including the pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancers. The journal welcomes submissions concerning molecular and cellular biology, genetics, epidemiology, and clinical trials. BMC Cancer (ISSN 1471-2407) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Current Contents, CABI, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 6, 2010 12:41:49 AM] |
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Connection between light at night and cancer revealed in additional study
New study from the Center for Interdisciplinary Chronobiological Research at the University of Haifa has found an additional link between light at night and cancer A new study from the Center for Interdisciplinary Chronobiological Research at the University of Haifa has found an additional link between Light At Night (LAN) and cancer. This research joins a series of earlier studies carried out at the University of Haifa that also established the correlation. "High power light bulbs contribute more to 'environmental light pollution', which the study has shown is a carcinogenic pollution," notes Prof. Abraham Haim, who headed the study... |
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