A team of researchers, led by Pier Paolo Pandolfi, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, has identified a new type of cellular senescence (i.e., irreversible arrest of cell growth) and determined a way to enhance ...
Feb 08, 2010
4 / 5 (2)
0
Gloria Correa has tried all the standard weapons in her war against cancer: chemotherapy, radiation, and finally surgery.
Jan 29, 2010
5 / 5 (6)
0
Magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy -- which analyzes the biochemistry rather than the structure of tissues -- may someday be able both to pinpoint the precise location of prostate cancer and to determine the tumor's aggressiveness, ...
Jan 27, 2010
not rated yet
0
In a newly published clinical trial, patients with metastatic prostate cancer who received a vaccine of harmless poxviruses engineered to spur an immune system attack on prostate tumor cells lived substantially longer than ...
Jan 25, 2010
not rated yet
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University are using fluorescent fish as a molecular 'beacon' to study the early stages of animal development. The researchers focused their attention on a gene - known ...
Jan 18, 2010
not rated yet
0
| 
A comprehensive appraisal of the management and treatment options for low-risk prostate cancer found that the rates of survival and tumor recurrence are similar among the most common treatment approaches, although costs can ...
Jan 05, 2010
not rated yet
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that prostate tumors in mice can cause immune cells known as CD8+ T cells to change their function from cells that have antitumor activity to cells that suppress immune responses. ...
Oct 07, 2009
not rated yet
0
Like vampires, cancer tumors require an ample supply of blood to stay alive. Without fresh blood for sustenance, cancer cells shrivel up like raisins and die.
Sep 17, 2009
not rated yet
0
A new type of stem cell discovered in the prostate of adult mice can be a source of prostate cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical ...
Sep 09, 2009
not rated yet
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a finding with potentially major implications for identifying a viral cause of prostate cancer, researchers at the University of Utah and Columbia University medical schools have reported ...
Sep 07, 2009
4.7 / 5 (3)
1
A third of the previously identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, associated with prostate cancer in men of European or African ancestry were also associated with prostate cancer in a Japanese population, according ...
Sep 02, 2009
not rated yet
0
(AP) -- A new study links hormone therapy for prostate cancer with a higher risk of death in older men who've had serious heart problems.
Aug 25, 2009
4 / 5 (1)
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have destroyed prostate cancer tumors in mice by injecting them with specially-coated, miniscule carbon tubes and then superheating the tubes with ...
Aug 19, 2009
5 / 5 (4)
1
A study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reveals how late-stage, hormone-independent prostate tumors gain the ability to grow without need of hormones.
Jul 23, 2009
4 / 5 (1)
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- In new research on prostate cancer to bone metastasis, Dr. Phillip Trackman of Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine explains that the lysyl oxidase pro-peptide (LOX-PP) inhibits prostate ...
Jul 13, 2009
5 / 5 (1)
0
