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Michael2901
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/232958.php
"Article Date: 18 Aug 2011 Risk Of Bladder Cancer Due To Smoking Higher Than We Thought According to a study in the August 17 issue of JAMA, an analysis of data from almost 500,000 individuals indicates, that the risk of bladder cancer among smokers is higher than reported from previous population data, and that the risk for female smokers is comparable with that of men. According to background information in the article, over 350,000 individuals are diagnosed with bladder cancer per year worldwide; this includes over 70,000 cases per year in the United States. Tobacco smoking is the best-established risk factor for bladder cancer in both men and women. Previous studies suggest that current cigarette smoking triples bladder cancer risk relative to never smoking..." |
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Light 'promising' in cancer fight
Light is a "promising" tool in the fight against cancer, say researchers in the US |
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http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Fa...y-news+%28Biology+News%29
"Fat cells in abdomen fuel spread of ovarian cancer Date:10/30/2011 A large pad of fat cells that extends from the stomach and covers the intestines provides nutrients that promote the spread and growth of ovarian cancer, reports a research team based at the University of Chicago in the journal Nature Medicine, published online October 30th, 2011. Ovarian cancer, the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths in women, tends to spread within the abdominal cavity as opposed to distant organs. In 80 percent of women, by the time ovarian cancer is diagnosed, it has spread to the pad of fat cells, called the omentum. Often, cancer growth in the omentum exceeds the growth of the original ovarian cancer... A protein known as fatty acid binding protein (FABP4), a fat carrier, may be crucial to this process and could be a target for treatment. When the researchers compared primary ovarian cancer tissue with ovarian cancer tissue which had spread to the omentum, they found that tumor cells next to omental fat cells produced high levels of FABP4. Cancer cells distant from the fat cells did not produce FABP4..." |
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http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Sc...y-news+%28Biology+News%29
"Date:6 Nov 2011 Scripps research team achieves critical step to opening elusive class of compounds to drug discovery LA JOLLA -- Taxanes are a family of compounds that includes one of the most important cancer drugs ever discovered, Taxol, among other cancer treatments. But the difficulty producing these complex molecules in the lab has hampered or blocked exploration of the family for further drug leads. Now, a group of Scripps Research Institute scientists has successfully achieved a major step toward the goal of synthetically producing Taxol and other complex taxanes on a quest to harness chemical reactions that could enable research on previously unavailable potential drugs. The project, led by Scripps Research chemist Phil Baran, is described November 6, 2011 in an advance, online issue of the journal Nature Chemistry. Taxol, the trade name for a chemical called paclitaxel first discovered in 1967 in the bark of a yew tree, is a highly successful drug used to treat ovarian, breast, lung, liver, and other cancer types..." |
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Beyond the drug cocktail. Beyond a vaccine. Scientists a are talking about a total cure
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http://the-scientist.com/2011/11/23/a-spoonful-of-sugar/
"November 23, 2011 A Spoonful of Sugar A special glucose molecule makes tumor cells more vulnerable to a pair of cancer cell-killing drugs. Combining a specific sugar molecule with two drugs can causes cancer cells of various types to kill themselves, according to a study published online in Cancer Research. “Cancer researchers are always looking for new therapies to target a variety of cancers and kill tumor cells in various stages of development,” Guy Perkins, associate project scientist at the Center for Research in Biological Systems at the University of California, San Diego, said in a press release. “The goal of targeted therapy is to stop the growth of cancerous cells while doing little or no harm to healthy tissue.” |
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In the British Journal of Cancer this week, researchers from Australia evaluate the effect of pigment epithelium-derived factor
on primary and secondary osteosarcoma tumors. In in vitro testing of PEDF in osteosarcoma cells lines, the team saw that it inhibited proliferation and induced apoptosis in the cancer cells... |
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