News tagged with melanoma cells
Related topics: cancer , skin cancer , tumor cells , melanoma
Using cancer's weapons against it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tumours seem to pacify our immune system by tapping into our bodies’ codes, but we may be able to use this trick against them in our bid to hunt them down.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Study: Cancer may pass from mother to unborn child
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has provided genetic evidence for the first time that it is possible for a mother to transmit cancer to her unborn child via the placenta.
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Melanoma-initiating cell identified
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a cancer-initiating cell in human melanomas. The finding is significant because the existence of such a cell in the aggressive skin cancer has been ...
Jun 30, 2010 |
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FDA clears first melanoma drug to extend life
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a breakthrough cancer medication from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. that researchers have heralded as the first drug to prolong the lives of patients with ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Glowing Cornell dots -- a potential cancer diagnostic tool set for human trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first clinical trial in humans of a new technology: Cornell Dots, brightly glowing nanoparticles that can light up cancer cells in PET-optical imaging.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Researchers predict age of T cells to improve cancer treatment
Manipulation of cells by a new microfluidic device may help clinicians improve a promising cancer therapy that harnesses the body's own immune cells to fight such diseases as metastatic melanoma, non-Hodgkin's ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Nanoparticle-decorated cells power novel approach to cancer therapy
Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only when patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cells multiply ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Melanoma uses body's immune system to spread to lungs
(PhysOrg.com) -- The way melanoma cells use the immune system to spread and develop into lung tumors may lead to a therapy to decrease development of these tumors, according to Penn State researchers.
Sep 24, 2010 |
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The sound of melanoma can help doctors find cancer (w/ Video)
Knowing the stage of a patient's melanoma is important when choosing the best course of treatment. When the cancer has progressed to the lymph nodes, a more aggressive treatment is needed. Examining an entire ...
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Researchers make major breakthrough in melanoma research
In a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for patients with malignant melanoma, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that a particular protein suppresses the progression of melanoma through ...
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Yale Scientists Isolate Specific Tumor Cells that Cause Cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Yale Cancer Center and other institutions are the first to demonstrate how distinct groups of cells from the same tumor are capable of forming tumors. Their findings, which ...
Jan 04, 2010 |
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New approaches refine molecular imaging for detecting cancer metastasis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers may be a step closer to improving the detection of metastatic tumors in an organism - in real time - using a non-invasive approach that pairs an imaging agent with a genetic element that only ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Steering around skin cancer
If Dr. Scott Fosko had his way, truckers would slather on sunscreen as routinely as they log their miles. As National Skin Cancer Awareness month rolls by and the sun's rays get stronger, Fosko, chairman of dermatology at ...
May 14, 2010 |
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More evidence that melanoma does not conform to the cancer stem cell model
ANN ARBOR, Mich---University of Michigan researchers have determined that most types of melanoma cells can form malignant tumors, providing new evidence that the deadliest form of skin cancer does not conform to the increasingly ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Study reveals new genetic culprit in deadly skin cancer
Drawing on the power of DNA sequencing, National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a new group of genetic mutations involved in the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma. This discovery is particularly encouraging ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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