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Michael2901
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/231984.php
"Article Date: 29 Jul 2011 Being Brought Up In Livestock Farm Raises Risk Of Blood Cancers Later On Individuals who were brought up in a livestock farm have a higher risk of developing blood cancers compared to other people, researchers from New Zealand and England reported in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a BMJ publication. For those growing up in a poultry farm the risk was found to be three times higher. Prior studies have pointed towards an association between blood cancer risk and being a farmer. Some have suggested that exposure to pesticides, infections, and/or contact with animals may be contributory factors. However, the majority of published research focused only on adults, rather than looking at potential early life factors. Andrea 't Mannetje, from the Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand and team gathered data on over 114,000 death certification records of New Zealanders aged between 35 and 85 between 1998 and 2003. They managed to obtain data on their usual jobs in 94,054 (82%) of the records. 3,000 out of the 94,054 had died from blood cancers. The researchers found that being brought up on a livestock farm was linked to a higher chance of developing blood cancers. There was no detectable link for individuals who had been brought up in crop farms..." |
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Michael2901
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/231993.php
"Article Date: 30 Jul 2011 High Fiber Intake Lowers Breast Cancer Risk Women who want to lower their risk of developing breast cancer should seriously consider increasing their intake of dietary fiber. A study reported in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that those who consumed the most fiber had an 11% lower risk of developing breast cancer compared to women who ate the least. The authors stressed that according to their findings, it appears that a high dietary fiber intake is linked to better overall health, which possibly lowers breast cancer risk, rather than just the fiber itself lowering risk..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231951.php
"Article Date: 31 Jul 2011 Introducing Maspin Protein Into Tumor Nucleus Can Halt Growth And Spread According to the Canadian Cancer Society, one in four Canadians will die of cancer. This year alone, the disease will kill an estimated 75,000 people. With incidence rates on the rise, more cancer patients are facing grave prognoses. Fortunately, Lawson Health Research Institute's Dr. John Lewis, Dr. Ann Chambers, and colleagues have found new hope for survival. Their new study released in Laboratory Investigation shows that maspin, a cellular protein, can reduce the growth and spread of cancer cells - but only when it is in the nucleus..." |
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Michael2901
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Now that could be a useful project for the World Community Grid i.e. developing computer based mathematical models to predict tumor growth and predict responses to treatment in patients.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232089.php "Article Date: 02 Aug 2011 Predicting The Evolution Of A Patient's Tumor To Advance Highly Individualized Cancer Treatment Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) and the University of Heidelberg in Germany have developed a mathematical model to understand and predict the progress of a tumor, from its early stages to metastasis, in hopes of creating highly personalized treatment strategies for patients who have cancer. The findings are published in Nature's new online journal Scientific Reports. When a tumor forms in the landscape of the human body, one of two things may happen: the tumor can halt its growth and lie dormant or it can grow nourished by a network of underlying vessels that expands as the tumor develops. The vessels also provide a way for the cancerous cells to travel to other parts of the body, settle and grow - a process called metastasis. The study reveals a hidden connection between the tumor and the nutrient supplying vessels. The method outlines paths of future tumor expansion and identifies specific points in the vessels that can be targeted to control the growth, explains Neil Johnson, Ph.D., professor of physics, director of the Complexity Research Group at UM College of Arts and Sciences and co-principal investigator of the study..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232098.php
"Article Date: 02 Aug 2011 Potential For Improved Cancer Screening With New High-Speed 3-D Imaging System Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new imaging system that enables high-speed, three-dimensional (3-D) imaging of microscopic pre-cancerous changes in the esophagus or colon. The new system, described in the Optical Society's (OSA) open access journal Biomedical Optics Express, is based on an emerging technology called optical coherence tomography (OCT), which offers a way to see below the surface with 3-D, microscopic detail in ways that traditional screening methods can't. Endoscopy is the method of choice for cancer screening of the colon or esophagus. In the procedure, a tiny camera attached to a long thin tube is snaked into the colon or down the throat, giving doctors a relatively non-invasive way to look for abnormalities. But standard endoscopy can only examine the surface of tissues, and thus may miss important changes occurring inside tissue that indicate cancer development..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232266.php
"Article Date: 05 Aug 2011 Potential Anti-Cancer Therapy That Starves Cancer Cells Of Glucose Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have identified a compound that attacks the Achilles' heel of certain cancer cells by depriving them of their energy source, the sugar glucose. Cancer chemotherapy can be a rough ride, in part because most of these drugs don't distinguish between what's cancerous and what's not. The chemicals attack all rapidly dividing cells, from cancer cells, to blood cells and the cells that make hair. However, drugs that target a biological phenomenon only found in cancer cells, such as the compound recently discovered by Stanford researchers, could efficiently fight the disease with minimal side effects. The finding was published in Science Translational Medicine. "This study demonstrates an approach for selectively inhibiting the ability of cancer cells to take up glucose, which is a pretty powerful way of killing those cells," said senior study author Amato Giaccia, PhD, professor and director of radiation oncology..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232324.php
"Article Date: 06 Aug 2011 Risk Of Heart Failure From Chemotherapy Reduced By Hormone Recent studies have shown that the heart contains cardiac stem cells that can contribute to regeneration and healing during disease and aging. However, little is known about the molecules and pathways that regulate these cells. Now, a new study utilizing a heart failure model is providing insight into one way to coax the cardiac stem cells into repairing the damaged heart. The research, published by Cell Press in the August 2011 issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, finds that low doses of erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone best known for controlling the production of red blood cells, might reduce the risk of heart failure associated with some anticancer therapies..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/232406.php
"Article Date: 08 Aug 2011 If exercise were a cancer drug, it would be a blockbuster, appears to be the conclusion of a new review on the benefits of physical activity to people surviving and living beyond cancer. In a report released today, 8 August, the leading UK charity Macmillan Cancer Support, firmly sweeps aside the tradition that cancer patients should "rest up" and "take it easy", and urges doctors and nurses to prescribe physical activity to patients "at all stages of cancer from initial diagnosis through to the later stages". However, despite the emergence of this evidence, many health professionals are failing to tell their cancer patients about the benefits of exercise, they added..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232426.php
----------------------------------------"Article Date: 09 Aug 2011 Early Morning Smokers Have Increased Risk Of Lung And Head And Neck Cancers Two new studies have found that smokers who tend to take their first cigarette soon after they wake up in the morning may have a higher risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers than smokers who refrain from lighting up right away. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results may help identify smokers who have an especially high risk of developing cancer and would benefit from targeted smoking interventions to reduce their risk..." [Edit 1 times, last edit by Michael2901 at Nov 7, 2011 2:16:21 AM] |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232467.php
"Article Date: 10 Aug 2011 Cancer Biomarker -- Detectable By Blood Test -- Could Improve Prostate Cancer Detection A new study supports the use of a DNA-based "biomarker" blood test as a complement to the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test currently offered to screen men for prostate cancer. University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers report their findings online ahead of print in the British Journal of Cancer. Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of existing published data related to DNA methylation in bodily fluids. The goal was to evaluate a specific cancer biomarker - known as GSTP1 - as a screening tool for prostate cancer..." |
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