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New Hope for Deadly Childhood Bone Cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have shed new light on Ewing’s sarcoma, an often deadly bone cancer that typically afflicts children and young adults. Their research ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Viral protein mimic keeps immune system quiet

In a new paper published Jan. 21 in the journal Science, a team of researchers led by Microbiology and Immunology professor Blossom Damania, PhD, has shown for the first time that the Kaposi sarcoma virus has a decoy protei ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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World first: Ovarian transplant helps woman be mum twice over

In what doctors described Wednesday as a world first, a Danish woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using ovarian tissue that was removed, frozen, thawed and then reimplanted after cancer ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify new drug target for Kaposi's sarcoma

UCSF researchers have identified a new potential drug target for the herpes virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma, re-opening the possibility of using the class of drugs called protease inhibitors against the full herpes family ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Longevity of AIDS patients presents new risks: US

Thirty years after the AIDS epidemic first surfaced, more people than ever before in the United States -- more than 1.1 million -- are living with HIV, the Centers for Disease Control said Thursday.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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Researchers achieve a full film frame of a family of proteins essential for cell function

Spanish researchers at IRB Barcelona have completed the 3D structural sequence adopted by several essential proteins in the exchange of substances between the extra and intracellular milieu. This finding provides a global ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Arsenic agent shuts down two hard-to-treat cancers in animal experiments

Researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center, have found that an arsenic-based agent already FDA-approved for a type of leukemia may be helpful in another ...

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Study finds therapeutic targets for rare cancer in children

The first study of Ewing's sarcoma that screened hundreds of genes based on how they affect cell growth has identified two potential anti-cancer drug targets, according to a scientific paper by the Translational Genomics ...

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Doctors look for orange-size lump, find 56-pounder

(AP) -- Doctors were shocked when they looked into a woman's uterus searching for an orange-size tumor but found something that resembled a giant rock instead.

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Researchers find childhood cancer risk rises with mother's age

Research from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota indicates that a baby born to an older mother may have a slightly increased risk for many of the cancers that occur during childhood.

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created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Caucasians are at higher risk of developing Ewing's sarcoma than other races

The largest analysis of its kind has found that Caucasians are much more likely than people in other racial/ethnic groups to develop a rare bone and soft tissue cancer called Ewing's sarcoma. In addition, among Caucasians ...

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created Jun 22, 2009 | 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 ...

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Spotlight on rare tumors in hunt for new cancer treatments

New breakthrough treatments for the most common cancers could soon come from cutting-edge research into some of the world's rarest tumors.

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created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Rare' cancers in the spotlight at major European conference

More should be done across Europe to ensure that people with rare forms of cancer are not denied access to the best possible treatment, say the organizers of a major European cancer conference to be held in Milan on 9 and ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Figitumumab has anti-tumor activity in Ewing's sarcoma

A preliminary study of the anticancer drug figitumumab has found that it has antitumour activity in Ewing's sarcoma—a cancer which affects mainly teenage boys. The results have led to the drug's progression to a Phase 2 trial ...

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