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- ONCOLOGY: - Prostate cancer recurrence reduced with 6 months combined anti-androgen therapy
J Clin Oncol 2008; 26: 2979-2983 Men with localized but unfavorable-risk prostate cancer have a reduced recurrence risk with radiotherapy plus 6 months of combined androgen suppression therapy (AST) ...
- TUMOR ANGIOGENESIS
NEJM:- Volume 358:2039-2049 May 8, 2008 Number 19 Robert S. Kerbel, Ph.D. The current era of research in antiangiogenic therapy for cancer began in earnest in 1971 with the publication ...
- ONCOLOGY: The impact of new European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer guidelines on the use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on the management of breast cancer patients
Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a severe consequence of myelosuppressive therapy. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer recently published guidelines on the use of granulocyte ...
- MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY: Tumour growth block hopes raised
Cancer cells divide in uncontrolled and rapid fashion Scientists have discovered a key part of the chemistry which makes cancer cells so dangerous. They believe it could now be possible to ...
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & ONCOLOGY: Methylation studies reveal lung cancer chemotherapy sensitivities
Cancer 2008; 112: 1122-1130 Japanese researchers appear to have identified a crucial mechanism in controlling expression of breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) in lung cancer cells. BCRP ...
- ONCOLOGY: NSCLC adenocarcinoma patients face poor prognosis
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008; 177: 516-523 Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with large adenocarcinomas are at higher risk for recurrence and death after surgery than those with squamous ...
- REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES: New method for the detection of reactive oxygen species in anti-tumoural activity of adriamycin: A comparison between hypoxic and normoxic cells
Abstract Tumour hypoxia plays a role in chemoresistance in several human tumours. However, how hyperbaric oxygen leads to chemotherapeutic gain is unclear. This study investigates the relation of ...
- ONCOLOGY: Provider influence and patient barriers affect use of colorectal cancer screening
A new study shows that health care providers play a key role in the likelihood their patients are screened for colorectal cancer. The findings suggest that interventions targeting both the provider ...
- ONCOLOGY: Predictors of inaccurate online breast cancer information
A new study has found that one in twenty breast cancer web pages contained inaccurate information, and that web sites devoted to complementary or alternative medicine were fifteen times more likely ...
- ONCOLOGY: Isolation of rare circulating tumour cells in cancer patients by microchip technology
Abstract Viable tumour-derived epithelial cells (circulating tumour cells or CTCs) have been identified in peripheral blood from cancer patients and are probably the origin of intractable metastatic ...
- IMMUNE SYSTEM & CANCER: Immune system can drive cancers into dormant state
A multinational team of researchers has shown for the first time that the immune system can stop the growth of a cancerous tumor without actually killing it. Scientists have been working for years to ...
- ONCOLOGY: Einstein scientists treat cancer as an infectious disease -- with promising results
Einstein scientists treat cancer as an infectious disease -- with promising results October 31, 2007 (BRONX, NY) - Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have ...
- UROLOGY: Patient identification errors possible at all stages of prostate biopsy assessment
J Urol 2007; 178: 1245-1248 It may not be possible to prevent prostate needle biopsy misidentification caused by human error, say US researchers who recommend DNA testing to confirm the identities ...
- GASTROENTEROLOGY: Influence of socio-economic deprivation on outcomes for patients diagnosed with oesophageal cancer
ABSTRACT & OBJECTIVES To determine the influence of deprivation on outcomes for patients with oesophageal cancer. Material and methods. A total of 1196 consecutive patients with oesophageal ...
- CANCER: Stem cells -prompt cancer spread-
Stem cells may allow breast cancer cells to spreadDangerous changes in cancer cells which allow them to spread around the body could be triggered by the body's own stem cells, say US ...
