Archive for the ‘Cancer Cells’ Category

New Hope for Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

29th September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Inhibiting the action of an enzyme called TAK-1 reverses pancreatic cancer resistance to chemotherapy, a finding that could lead to the development of a new way to treat the disease, researchers say.
Pancreatic cancer is resistant to every currently available anti-cancer treatment.
“During the past few years we have been studying the role [...]

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High-fibre Diet Linked to Lower Risk of Breast Cancer

3rd September 2009 by admin No Comments

We’re told repeatedly to get more fibre. It’s advice that can keep you regular and help ward off heart disease, type 2 diabetes and possibly colon cancer. Now, according to a new study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, increasing your intake of fibre can guard against breast cancer.
More [...]

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Advanced Skin, Brain Cancers Improve With Experimental Hedgehog Drug

3rd September 2009 by admin 3 Comments

People with advanced skin and brain cancers — untreatable by current methods — improve after treatment with a new oral drug called a hedgehog inhibitor.
Hedgehog is one of the hottest new anticancer targets. During embryonic development and childhood, the signaling molecule nicknamed hedgehog spurs growth processes. But the body turns it off during adulthood. When [...]

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12 Ways to Protect Your Skin And Prevent Skin Cancer

19th July 2009 by admin No Comments

1. All doctors are not created equal: When researchers from Emory University School of Medicine looked at the records of more than 2,000 melanoma patients, they found that those whose growths had been diagnosed by a dermatologist were more likely to have early-stage cancer — and to survive their disease — than those who’d been [...]

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New Class of Drugs Promising for BRCA-Related Cancers

9th July 2009 by admin 1 Comment

New drugs called PARP inhibitors appear to have a lot of promise against hereditary cancers caused by BRCA1 and BRCA2 cell mutations.
PARP inhibitors work by blocking the action of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, an enzyme that helps repair DNA. In certain tumor cells, such as those from BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, blocking this enzyme can [...]

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‘Normal’ Cells Far From Cancer Give Nanosignals Of Trouble

9th July 2009 by admin No Comments

A new Northwestern University-led study of human colon, pancreatic and lung cells is the first to report that cancer cells and their non-cancerous cell neighbors, although quite different under the microscope, share very similar structural abnormalities on the nanoscale level.
The findings, obtained using an optical technique that can detect features as small as 20 nanometers, [...]

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New Green Tea Spray May Protect Against Skin Cancer

7th July 2009 by admin 1 Comment

A new spray made from green tea may protect against skin cancer by reducing the damaging effects of ultraviolet rays, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Researchers at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio applied the spray onto the skin of ten volunteers, before they were exposed to ultraviolet light.
The results, published in [...]

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Novartis Drug Combo Cuts Pancreatic Tumour Size

24th June 2009 by admin No Comments

A combination of two drugs from Novartis AG (NOVN.VX) cut the size of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours in more than 80 percent of patients in a mid-stage study, the Swiss group said on Wednesday. Patients who received a once-daily pill Afinitor in combination with Sandostatin LAR had no progression in their disease for a median of [...]

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Lab Study Finds Protein That May Inhibit Cancer Spread

22nd June 2009 by admin No Comments

A protein produced by certain kinds of tumors inhibits the spread of cancer and could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment, researchers say.
Currently, there is no approved therapy for inhibiting or treating metastasis — the migration of cancer cells from the original cancer site to other parts of the body. Metastasis is one of [...]

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