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Coleslaw
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Eveidently Folding@Home has gotten some good results and Stanford got some recognition lately.
----------------------------------------http://folding.typepad.com/news/2012/03/stanf...protein-used-to-trea.html and http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-scienti...potency-side-effects.html     [Edit 1 times, last edit by Coleslaw at Mar 21, 2012 2:09:30 AM] |
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Jim Slade
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Breast cancer study says more than 1,700 black women die unnecessarily each year.
http://tinyurl.com/7heyna2 The study was done by Sinai Urban Institute in Chicago and funded by the Avon Foundation. The research was published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology. Whitman, Steven, Orsi, Jennifer and Hurlbert, Marc (2012) The racial disparity in breast cancer mortality in the largest 25 cities in the United States, Cancer Epidemiology, 36e147-e151 Journal homepage: http://www.cancerepidemiology.net |
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One Drug to Shrink All Tumors
ScienceMag.org is reporting " A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells. " The drug is reported to be headed to phase 1 human trials...... Full details: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03...nk-all-tumors.html?ref=hp |
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Can a dirt-cheap diabetes drug fight cancer?
CNN.com is reporting: "Over the past several years, studies in cell cultures and animals have found that metformin (a cheap diabetes drug) appears to slow or stop the growth of a wide range of cancer cells, including those associated with breast, prostate, lung, and endometrial cancer. This news wasn't entirely surprising: Metformin treats diabetes in part by lowering insulin levels, and several types of cancer -- such as those of the breast, colon, and prostate -- have been linked to high levels of that hormone." The drug has been in use for years, and is available in generic form for pennies per pill. The full article on CNN.com: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/05/health/diab...er/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12 |
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'Universal' cancer vaccine developed
The UK newspaper The Telegraph reports: " A vaccine that can train cancer patients' own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells has been developed by scientists. The therapy, which targets a molecule found in 90 per cent of all cancers, could provide a universal injection that allows patients' immune systems to fight off common cancers including breast and prostate cancer. " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-ne...er-vaccine-developed.html |
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David Autumns
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g7lhb
----------------------------------------Highlighting some of the progress. This programme has just finished. Viewable in the UK. I'll try find a link that makes this available further afield  |
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New radiation therapy reduces treatment of gynecologic cancers from 5 weeks to 3 days
A new method, stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has been used on other types of cancer, but this is the first application to gynecologic cancers. Unlike traditional radiation therapy, SBRT uses focused radiation beams and targets well-defined tumors. The highly specific nature of the procedure not only shortens treatment time, it limits the effect of the radiation on healthy tissues. Further details and a link to a video: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/tjov-nrt041212.php |
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New treatment for prostate cancer gives 'perfect results' for nine in ten men: research
The Telegraph reports "It is hoped the new treatment, which involves heating only the tumours with a highly focused ultrasound, will mean men can be treated without an overnight stay in hospital and avoiding the distressing side effects associated with current therapies. Details: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/...-in-ten-men-research.html |
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$4,829-per-hour supercomputer built on Amazon cloud to fuel cancer research
The website ars technica reports that commercial cancer drug researchers "opted to build a 50,000-core supercomputer on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. It ran for three hours on the night of March 30, at a cost of $4,828.85 per hour. Getting up to 51,132 cores required spinning up 6,742 Amazon EC2 instances running CentOS Linux." The cluster proved to be a success, turning up leads for future research that would have been missed had researchers been forced to cut corners by using their more limited in-house resources. The full article: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/...=rss&utm_campaign=rss |
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Rickjb
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Chemotherapy and fasting to treat cancer
In around 2008, it was thought that starvation or fasting in animals for two or three days was a useful part of treatment against cancer. Doubters suggested it assisted the host and the cancer. Recent experiments have shown fasting makes things worse for the cancer, when assisted by chemotherapy. It's the combination of the two treatments which produces the effect. Most people can last for up to 40 days with just water. Normal cells know how to cope with starvation. Cancer cells don't. They evolved away from starvation ... ---- This was an audio broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Radio National The Science Show, on 21 April 2012. At the time of posting, it is available for listening now or MP3 download. A transcript should be available soon. The Show's guest was researcher: Valter Longo Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences University of Southern California Davis California USA http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=51 ------- Poster's comment: This could be a very important breakthrough in cancer treatment, perhaps available right now! If projects like HFCC come up with improved chemotherapeutic agents for neuroblastoma, fasting could multiply the effectiveness of the new compounds. Some oncologists are already trying it on their patients, outside of formal trial results. Warning: If you have cancer and are about to undergo chemotherapy, do not try simultaneous fasting without the support and supervision of your oncologist. |
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