News tagged with kidney tumors

Nanotube therapy takes aim at breast cancer stem cells

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second laser treatment can kill them.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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UCLA team uncovers mechanism behind organ transplant rejection

UCLA researchers have pinpointed the culprit behind chronic rejection of heart, lung and kidney transplants. Published in the Nov. 23 edition of Science Signaling, their findings suggest new therapeutic approa ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers effectively treat tumors with use of nanotubes

By injecting man-made, microscopic tubes into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, scientists have discovered a way to effectively kill kidney tumors in nearly 80 percent of mice. Researchers say ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0

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

New drug shrinks brain tumors, reduces seizures in children with tuberous sclerosis

A drug used to treat advanced kidney cancer has now been shown to reduce a particular kind of brain tumor by at least 30 percent in patients with tuberous sclerosis—a genetic disease that causes tumors ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

FDA approves kidney cancer drug to treat brain tumors

The United States has approved a drug normally used for advanced kidney cancer to treat brain tumors caused by a rare genetic disease, US officials and the Swiss manufacturer said Monday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

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Mayo Clinic finds early success with laser that destroys tumors with heat

Physicians at Mayo Clinic's Florida campus are among the first in the nation to use a technique known as MRI-guided laser ablation to heat up and destroy kidney and liver tumors. So far, five patients have been successfully ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

URMC discovers new trigger for kidney cancer's invasive behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have unlocked a strong interaction between two proteins involved in kidney cancer that help to explain the menacing invasiveness of this particular disease, according to a University of Rochester ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds epigenetic similarities between Wilms tumor cells and normal kidney stem cells

factors controlling when and in what tissues genes are expressed - of Wilms tumor reveals striking similarities to stem cells normally found in fetal kidneys. These findings by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Urine test for kidney cancer a step closer to development

Studying patients with kidney cancer, a team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a pair of proteins excreted in the urine that could lead to earlier and more ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors embrace social networking

In the waiting room, the patient's family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study reveals how a common virus eludes the immune system

Viruses have numerous tricks for dodging the immune system. In the September 7, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Stagg et al. reveal a key detail in one of these stratagems, identifying a protein that enables cyto-m ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA approves new drug for deadly kidney cancer

(AP) -- A drug from Novartis has won U.S. approval as a treatment for patients with kidney cancer that has returned after treatment with older drugs.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel therapy for metastatic kidney cancer developed

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 kill ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lung cancer risk particularly high for heart and liver transplant recipients

Heart and liver transplant recipients are at particularly high risk of developing lung cancer after receiving the donated organ, researchers report at the 2nd European Lung Cancer Conference. They are advising doctors to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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