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Michael2901
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237045.php
"Article Date: 04 Nov 2011 Use Of New Catalyst To Synthesize Two Potent Anti-Cancer Molecules Research carried out at Boston College, in collaboration with scientists at MIT and the University of Oxford, has led to the development of an efficient and highly selective catalyst for ring-closing olefin metathesis, one of the most widely used reactions in chemical synthesis, the team reports in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The team used the new catalyst, part of a large and important class of carbon-carbon double bonds, to synthesize epothilone C and nakadomarin A, both of which are molecules that have been shown to be potent anti-cancer agents. Epothilone A, an equally active agent can be prepared from epothilone C..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237110.php
"Article Date: 04 Nov 2011 Experimental Drug Shows Great Results On Prostate Cancer An experimental drug known as MDV3100 made by Medivation Inc. has improved survival rates for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Those on MDV3100 by Medivation outlived those on a placebo by an average of 4.8 months, in a phase 3 trial. The manufacturer Medivation Inc. shares shot up 150% on the news and they announced that an independent committee monitoring the trial recommended stopping the trial after reviewing interim results. It would be unfair and arbitrary to those on the placebo, to continue just for the sake of gathering relatively unneeded data..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237406.php
"Article Date: 10 Nov 2011 Toxic Component In Herbal Remedies Linked To Kidney Failure And Cancer Aristolochic acid, a component of a plant used in herbal remedies since ancient times and still used in certain herbal medicines worldwide, leads to kidney failure and upper urinary tract cancer in individuals exposed to the toxin..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237550.php
"Article Date: 12 Nov 2011 New Approaches To The Treatment Of Early-stage Liver Cancer Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have played a major role in two studies that could fundamentally change the medical treatment of liver cancer. Doctors are now able to determine the degree of aggressiveness of the tumour in the early stages and can thus devise an individualised treatment plan. The second study reveals the mechanisms used by the immune system to remove pre-malignant liver cells from the body and therefore opens up the possibility of a new therapeutic approach to treating cancer. The studies have been published by Gut and Nature, two highly regarded medical journals..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237676.php
"Article Date: 15 Nov 2011 Global Prostate Cancer Risk Linked To Contraceptive Pill Usage According to an investigation published in BMJ Open, the use of the contraceptive pill is linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer worldwide. In developed countries prostate cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer among males and the use of the contraceptive pill has significantly increased over the past 4 decades..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237716.php
"Article Date: 15 Nov 2011 Gene That Signals "Stop!" To Skin Cancer Found Scientists have found a gene whose absence may be an important driver for a common form of skin cancer known as squamous cell cancer (SCC), because its presence signals "Stop!" to cell proliferation. The international team found the gene, called Grhl3, is also virtually absent in SCC that arises in other tissues, including head and neck cancers, that often have a poor prognosis. Because drugs that are effective against SCC are already in development for treating other cancers, they hope treatments and prevention therapies for SCC could be offered to patients within five years..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237718.php
"Article Date: 15 Nov 2011 How Bloodstream Platelets Help Cancer Cells Metastasize The vast majority of deaths from cancer are due to secondary tumors, about 90% of them. Secondary tumors are those from a metastasized cancer; one that has spread to other parts of the body - a tumor that is not in the original tumor site. For cancer cells to break free from the original tumor, they need a bit of help from other cells around them. Experts have believed that several types of cells in the original tumor's environment play a role in helping the cancer cell break free and spread to other parts of the body. They suggested that immune system cells and those that form connective tissue are involved. Platelets, the blood cells involved in coagulation of blood (clotting), are also involved, say scientists from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Before this latest study, nobody knew what the exact role of platelets were in helping cancer cells metastasize..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237742.php
"Article Date: 17 Nov 2011 New Cancer-Causing Virus Confirmed By Researchers An important new study from the Laboratory for Developmental Genetics at USC has confirmed cytomegalovirus (CMV) as a cause of the most common salivary gland cancers. CMV joins a group of fewer than 10 identified oncoviruses - cancer-causing viruses - including HPV. The findings, published online in the journal Experimental and Molecular Pathology over the weekend, are the latest in a series of studies by USC researchers that together demonstrate CMV's role as an oncovirus, a virus that can either trigger cancer in healthy cells or exploit mutant cell weaknesses to enhance tumor formation..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237830.php
"Article Date: 18 Nov 2011 Breakthrough In Loading Gold Nanorods Into Cells Could Lead To New Cancer Treatment Rice University chemists have found a way to load more than 2 million tiny gold particles called nanorods into a single cancer cell. The breakthrough could speed development of cancer treatments that would use nanorods like tiny heating elements to cook tumors from the inside. The research appears online this week in the chemical journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237837.php
"Article Date: 18 Nov 2011 Glucose Necessary For Cancer Growth May Prove To Be Its Weak Link Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered that cancer cells tap into a natural recycling system to obtain the energy they need to keep dividing. In a study with potential implications for cancer treatments, Einstein researchers used genetic manipulation to turn off this recycling system within the walls of cells and stop both tumor growth and metastasis (cancer spread). The findings were published in the online edition of Science Translational Medicine..." |
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