When children are exposed to head and neck radiation, whether due to cancer treatment or multiple diagnostic CT scans, the result is an increased risk of thyroid cancer for the next 58…
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Pathwork Diagnostics Receives New York State Clinical Laboratory Permit For Tissue Of Origin Testing Service
Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc., a privately held molecular diagnostics company focused on oncology, announced that the New York State Department of Health has issued Pathwork Diagnostics a clinical laboratory permit and approved the…
Susan G. Komen For The Cure(R) Encourages Continued Coverage For Avastin For Breast Cancer Patients Who Are Benefitting From The Drug
Susan G. Komen for the Cure® encouraged continued coverage for breast cancer patients benefitting from the cancer drug Avastin and the continued development of breast cancer treatments, following a U.S. Food and…
Cell Of Origin For Brain Tumors May Predict Response To Therapy
For patients with glioma, the most common primary brain tumor, new findings may explain why current therapies fail to eradicate the cancer. A UCSF-led team of scientists has identified for the first…
Iraq to develop nuclear medicine now
Iraq will focus on restarting its nuclear medicine programme and may build a nuclear reactor for electricity now that the United Nations has ended nearly two decades of sanctions, government ministers said…
Experts Collaborate In Gene Survey Of Childhood Brain Cancer
Pediatric cancer researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia contributed important expertise to a new landmark study of medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor typically found in children. The large multicenter study…
Liver Cancer In Cirrhotic Patients Effectively Treated With Radiofrequency Ablation
Researchers from Italy determined that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a safe and effective therapy for managing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in cirrhotic patients. The high repeatability of RFA is advantageous in controlling recurrences…
The Secrets Of A Very Common Virus That Can Cause Cancer Decoded By Scientists
About 90 percent of people are infected at some time in their lives with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), usually with no ill effects. But individuals with compromised immune systems, such as people with…
Fighting Cancer And Steering Immune Reactions
What makes cancer cells so dangerous is that they grow in an unregulated way and proliferate much faster than other cells. The proteasome, a large protein complex, plays a key role in…
Nanoscale Gene “Ignition Switch” May Help Spot And Treat Cancer
In a proof of principal study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have shown that a set of genetic instructions encased in a nanoparticle can be…
Novel Therapy For Metastatic Kidney Cancer Developed At VCU Massey Cancer Center
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) have developed a novel virus-based gene therapy for renal cell carcinoma that has been shown to…
Scientists Identify How Virus Triggers Cervical And Mouth Cancer
University of Manchester scientists have discovered for the first time an important new way in which the human papilloma virus (HPV) triggers cancer in what could lead to new treatments for cervical…
Xeloda may reduce recurrence of faster growing breast cancers
Joyce O’Shaughnessy, M.D., medical director and co-chair of the Breast Cancer Research Committee, US Oncology Research, and medical oncologist with Texas Oncology-Baylor Sammons Cancer Center, presented her study findings today at the…
Living In Certain Neighborhoods Increases The Chances Older Men And Women Will Develop Cancer
Older people who live in racially segregated neighborhoods with high crime rates have a much higher chance of developing cancer than do older people with similar health histories and income levels who…
Identifying Lung Cancer Gene Markers Shows Promise In Identifying Patients Needing Chemo
Cancer researchers have identified six gene markers present in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that show promise in helping oncologists better identify which tumors will relapse after curative surgery, according…