News tagged with germ cell cancer

Stem cell protein offers a new cancer target

A protein abundant in embryonic stem cells is now shown to be important in cancer, and offers a possible new target for drug development, report researchers from the Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personalized medicine: Tumor analysis reveals new opportunities for existing cancer drugs

Targeted cancer therapies such as trastuzumab (Herceptin), gefitinib (Iressa) and erlotinib (Tarceva) could be used to treat a wider range of cancers than previously thought, according to new research presented today (Wednesday) ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists develop the first model for investigating the origins of testicular cancer in humans

Scientists have developed a model that will enable them to investigate, for the first time, how human testes develop in baby boys while they are in the womb. Until now it has been impossible to study testicular development ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Women exposed to radiation therapy as children prone to stillbirths

Thanks to advances in medicine, many children and adolescents who were diagnosed with cancer years ago are now surviving to adulthood and wanting to start families themselves. But how does exposure to radiation used to treat ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Second gene linked to familial testicular cancer

Specific variations or mutations in a particular can gene raise a man's risk of familial, or inherited, testicular germ-cell cancer, the most common form of this disease, according to new research by scientists at the National ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Relatives of boys with sexual birth defects not at risk for testicular germ cell cancer

Boys with the sexual birth defects known as hypospadias and cryptorchidism are at risk for developing testicular germ cell cancer, but their relatives are not, according to a new study published online December 21 in the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1