News tagged with skin tumors
Researchers discover possible biomarker and therapeutic target for melanoma
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, have identified a potential new biomarker and therapeutic target for melanoma. The novel cell screening method used ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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New clue to controlling skin regeneration--as well as skin cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- How do organs "know" when to stop growing? The answer could be useful in regenerative medicine, and also in cancer - where these "stop growing" signals either aren't issued or aren't heeded. Researchers in ...
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Mar 09, 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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Stem cells released to heal wounds could trigger tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research in mice has found that mutated stem cells can migrate to the surface of injured skin, where they can trigger the growth of tumors.
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Feb 15, 2011 |
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Infiltrating cancer's recruitment center
The most common connective tissue cell in animals is the fibroblast, which plays an important role in healing wounds. But Dr. Neta Erez of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine has now demonstrated that fibroblasts ...
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Cancer cell survival is not 'miR-ly' dependent on p53
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a common type of skin cancer. In this paper, Leif Ellisen and colleagues at Mass General Hospital investigated the p53-related proteins p63 and p73 in SCC cells, and discovered a feedback ...
Jan 10, 2011 |
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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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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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Targeted drug leads to regression of metastatic melanoma with mutated BRAF gene
Use of an experimental targeted drug to treat metastatic melanoma tumors with a specific genetic signature was successful in more than 80 percent of patients in a phase 1 clinical trial. Results of the trial of PLX4032, ...
Aug 25, 2010 |
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The evolution of melanoma diagnosis: 25 years beyond the ABCDs
Twenty-five years after publishing the mnemonic "ABCD" to facilitate the early diagnosis of melanoma, the group who came up with that moniker says early detection remains a key factor in lowering mortality from malignant ...
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Non-melanoma skin cancer may help identify survivors at increased risk for future cancers
Childhood cancer survivors diagnosed later with non-melanoma skin cancer may be at increased risk for having a malignant tumor within 15 years, according to research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators.
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Scientists explain the persistence of melanoma through 'dynamic stemness'
Scientists at The Wistar Institute offer a new explanation for the persistent ability of melanoma cells to self-renew, one of the reasons why melanoma remains the deadliest form of skin cancer. The concept of the "dynamic ...
May 13, 2010 |
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Clinical trial to test whether vaccine can effectively treat melanoma
Rush University Medical Center is leading a nationwide Phase III clinical trial to determine whether a promising vaccine for advanced melanoma can effectively treat the deadly skin cancer.
Apr 06, 2010 |
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How sunlight causes skin cells to turn cancerous
Most skin cancers are highly curable, but require surgery that can be painful and scarring.
Jan 15, 2010 |
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Study identifies a protein complex possibly crucial for triggering embryo development
The DNA contained within each of our cells is exactly the same, yet different types of cells - skin cells, heart cells, brain cells - perform very different functions. The ultimate fate of these cells is encoded ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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