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Breast Cancer Symptoms Can Be More Than Lumps
Around one in six women (17 percent) diagnosed with breast cancer goes to her doctor with a symptom other than a lump — the most commonly reported breast cancer symptom, according to new research presented at the 2016 National Cancer...
Is Prostate Cancer and High Blood Cholesterol Connected?
Now a team led by researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute have identified a cellular process that cancer cells hijack to hoard cholesterol and fuel their growth. Identifying this process could inform the development of better ways to control cholesterol...
The Difference Between Standard (X-Ray) Radiation Treatment And Proton Therapy
There is a significant difference between standard (x-ray) radiation treatment and proton therapy. If given in sufficient doses, x-ray radiation techniques will control many cancers. But, because of the physician’s inability to adequately conform the irradiation pattern to the cancer,...
The Protein Complex That Protects Telomeres — The Ends Of Our Chromosomes
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have unveiled part of the protein complex that protects telomeres — the ends of our chromosomes. The study, published online in Nature Communications, explains how a group of genetic mutations associated with this protein complex...
There are 2 types of cancer vaccines: Prevention vaccines and Treatment vaccines
Vaccines, also called vaccinations, are medicines that help the body fight disease. They help train the immune system to recognize and destroy harmful substances. There are 2 types of cancer vaccines: Prevention vaccines Treatment vaccines Cancer prevention vaccines Doctors give...
A nanoscale product of human cells plays an important role in intercellular communication
A nanoscale product of human cells that was once considered junk is now known to play an important role in intercellular communication and in many disease processes, including cancer metastasis. Researchers at Penn State have developed nanoprobes to rapidly isolate...
Team identifies drugs that halt skin cancer metastasis in lab tests
There’s a reason why melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, is so aggressive. You just need to watch the cells in action. Researchers at the University of Iowa did just that, documenting in real time and in 3-D...
How cancer cells develop resistance
Study identifies how cancer cells may develop resistance to FGFR inhibitors A mechanism by which cancer cells develop resistance to a class of drugs called fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors has now been uncovered by investigators. The researchers also...
Early cancer detection, some new technologies on the horizon
Urine-based biomarkers for early cancer screening test A new study has introduced a new technique that validates urine-based biomarkers for early detection of cancer. The research team expects that this may be potentially useful in clinical settings to test urinary...
