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Michael2901
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205969.php
"Article Date: 28 Oct 2010 Surprise Finding: Pancreatic Cancers Progress To Lethal Stage Slowly Pancreatic cancer develops and spreads much more slowly than scientists have thought, according to new research from Johns Hopkins investigators. The finding indicates that there is a potentially broad window for diagnosis and prevention of the disease..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205983.php
"Article Date: 28 Oct 2010 Tumor Suppressor Acts As Oncogene In Some Cancers Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida have found that a molecule long believed to be a beneficial tumor suppressor and thus a potential cancer drug target appears to act as an oncogene in some lethal brain tumors..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/206001.php
"Article Date: 28 Oct 2010 Height Might Affect Risk Of Testicular Cancer Taller men could be at an increased risk of testicular cancer, new research suggests. The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, claimed that for every extra two inches (or 5 centimetres) in height the risk of testicular cancer could increase by 13 per cent. The lifetime risk of developing testicular cancer is one in 210 for men in the UK. So even for men exceeding the average height of British men (5ft 9ins) the risk would remain relatively low..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/206070.php
"Article Date: 28 Oct 2010 New Oral Crizotinib Appreciably Shrinks Aggressive Sarcoma And Lung Cancer Tumors A 44-year old patient with inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT), a sarcoma that predominantly develops in the abdomen or chest of young adults and children, was found to respond surprisingly well to a new oral medication with "dramatic shrinkage" of tumors, researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute wrote in the NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine)..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205836.php
"Article Date: 29 Oct 2010 MIT Researchers Discover That Tumor Cells Can Escape From Chemotherapy In a study of mice with lymphoma, MIT biologists have discovered that a small number of cancer cells escape chemotherapy by hiding out in the thymus, an organ where immune cells mature. Within the thymus, the cancer cells are bathed in growth factors that protect them from the drugs' effects. Those cells are likely the source of relapsed tumors, said Michael Hemann, MIT assistant professor of biology, who led the study..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/206078.php
"Article Date: 29 Oct 2010 FAK Inhibitor Effectively Blocked Colon Cancer Cell Growth And Viability Researchers are one step closer to providing a new therapy for colon cancer, after findings revealed that a small molecule focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitor known as Y15 effectively blocked cell viability, promoted detachment and apoptosis, and decreased tumor growth in mice. These findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research special conference on Colorectal Cancer: Biology to Therapy, held Oct. 27-30, 2010..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/206168.php
"Article Date: 30 Oct 2010 Penn Study Shows Two-Sided Immune Cell Could Be Harnessed To Shrink Tumors A recently identified immune cell that directs other cells to fight infection plays a critical role in regulating the immune system in both health and disease. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered how a stimulatory molecule and a protein found on the membrane of another immune cell make T helper 17 cells multi-taskers of sorts. Th17 cells protect the body against infection and cancer, but are also culprits in some autoimmune diseases and out-of-control, cancerous cell growth..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/206186.php
"Article Date: 01 Nov 2010 In Response To Chemo, Healthy Cells Shield Cancer Cells Many times, cancer patients respond very well to chemotherapy initially only to have their disease return, sometimes years later. Now researchers reporting in the October 29th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have new insight into the factors that allow some lingering tumor cells to resist treatment and to seed that kind of resurgence. Contrary to expectations, it appears that the answer doesn't necessarily lie in the cancerous cells themselves. The evidence based on studies of mice with lymphoma shows that cues coming from healthy cells in response to the stress of chemotherapy can protect their cancerous neighbors, allowing them to persist in select refuge sites..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/206363.php
"Article Date: 02 Nov 2010 Scientists Find New Route To Cancer Cancer Research UK scientists have found that non-dividing cells are able to kick-start some cancers, challenging a long held belief that only dividing cells, like stem cells, cause the disease, according to research published online in PNAS yesterday (Monday). Looking at skin cells the researchers demonstrated that damaged, non-dividing cells were able to send signals to neighbouring cells telling them to divide and form the beginnings of a tumour..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/206470.php
"Article Date: 03 Nov 2010 Scientists Turn A New Leaf To Discover A Compound In Daffodils That Targets Brain Cancer When looking for new ways to treat aggressive brain cancers, an international team of scientists turned a new leaf and "discovered" the lowly daffodil. A new research study published in the November 2010 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) offers hope that a natural compound found in daffodil bulbs, called narciclasine, may be a powerful therapeutic against biologically aggressive forms of human brain cancers..." |
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