http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/223603.php

"Article Date: 28 Apr 2011

The Way Doctors Treat Patients With Cancer And Autoimmune Diseases Could Change Following New Discovery

Researchers in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta have made an important discovery that provides a new understanding of how our immune system "learns" not to attack our own body, and this could affect the way doctors treat patients with autoimmune diseases and cancer..."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/224373.php

"Article Date: 05 May 2011

Prostate Cancer: More Soy In Diet May Protect Against Deadly Disease

Many people often associate the benefits of soy with breast cancer. Indeed, data on soy and prostate cancer has been most promising; many studies support the role of soy in the prevention and possible treatment of prostate cancer. During the late 80s, researchers found that Japanese men in Hawaii who ate tofu at least 5 times per week had 65% less chance of developing prostate cancer than those who ate tofu only once a week or less. In 1998, researchers found that men who drank soy milk at least once a day had a 70% less chance of developing prostate cancer than those who never drank soy milk at all..."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/224693.php

"Article Date: 10 May 2011

Researchers With UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Discover Way To Amp Up The Power Of Killer T Cells

Researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a way to amp up the power of killer T-cells, called CD8 cells, making them more functional for longer periods of time and boosting their ability to multiply and expand within the body to fight melanoma, a new study has found.

The study, done in mouse models of metastatic melanoma that had spread to the brain, has important clinical implications, as the method could boost the cancer-killing power of experimental immunotherapies being tested now in various cancers, including deadly glioblastoma and metastatic melanoma, both of which are very difficult to treat successfully..."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/224726.php

"Article Date: 10 May 2011

Exhaustion of tumor-specific CD8+ T cells in metastases from melanoma patients

Immune cells known as CD8+ T cells are key components of the antitumor immune response. A team of researchers, led by Daniel Speiser, at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland, has now generated a gene expression profile of CD8+ T cells in the blood of patients with melanoma (the most dangerous form of skin cancer) and CD8+ T cells in the distant tumors of individuals with melanoma. Surprisingly, the cells in the blood have the characteristics of functional effector cells, whereas the cells in the tumors have the characteristics of exhausted cells that are functionally impaired. The molecular mechanisms underlying the functional impairment of the exhausted CD8+ T cells could provide new targets for anticancer therapies"

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/224859.php

"Article Date: 11 May 2011

Breast Cancer Risk Lower Among Regular Coffee Drinkers

Women who drink coffee regularly have a significantly lower risk of developing antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer, researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, revealed in Breast Cancer Research..."