News tagged with malignant growth
Frequent CT scanning for testicular cancer surveillance associated with secondary malignancies
UC Davis cancer researchers have found that older men with early-stage testicular cancer who opt for surveillance with regular CT scans over lymph node removal are at greater risk for secondary cancers. The findings, published ...
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Cause of skin cancer that heals itself found
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has identified the key gene causing a rare type of skin cancer that grows rapidly for a few weeks or months but then heals itself.
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Apoptotic mechanisms of octreotide on HepG2
A research team from Greece examined the effect of octreotide on cellular proliferation, apoptosis and caspase activation in HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells. The results supported the induction of caspase-mediated ...
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Restoring the gene for cancer protein p53 slows spread of advanced tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study to be published in the Nov. 25 issue of Nature, MIT cancer biologists show that restoring the protein p53's function in mice with lung cancer has no effect early in tumor develo ...
Nov 24, 2010 |
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c-Met may be a biomarker for metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma
Targeting c-Met may be a promising personalized treatment method for approximately 45 percent of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have c-Met-positive tumors, according to study results presented at the Fourth ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Individual mutations are very slow to promote tumor growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Individual cancer-causing mutations have a minute effect on tumor growth, increasing the rate of cell division by just 0.4 percent on average, according to new mathematical modeling by scientists ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Micro-RNA determines malignancy of lung cancer
A small RNA molecule determines whether or not lung cancer cells grow invasively and metastasize. This has been discovered in the culture dish by scientists of the German Cancer Research Center and the University Medical ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Mystery unraveled: How asbestos causes cancer
More than 20 million people in the U.S., and many more worldwide, who have been exposed to asbestos are at risk of developing mesothelioma, a malignant cancer of the membranes that cover the lungs and abdomen that is resistant ...
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Fight-or-flight hormones help tumor cells escape to spread
Chronic stress triggers a chain of molecular events that protects breakaway ovarian cancer cells from destruction, a team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports April ...
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Possible ovarian cancer treatment target identified
A multi-institutional study has identified a potential personalized treatment target for the most common form of ovarian cancer. In the December 8 issue of Cancer Cell, the research team describes finding that a gene called ...
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Scientists Discover A New Protein Partnership That Leads To Pediatric Tumor Regression
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why are some pediatric cancers able to spontaneously regress? Prof. Michael Fainzilber and his team of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department seem to have unexpectedly found part of the ...
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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A longer lasting tumor blocker
On the heels of dismaying reports that a promising antitumor drug could, in theory, shorten patients' long-term survival, comes a promising study by a Japanese team of researchers that suggests a potentially better option. ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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