News tagged with stomach cancer

Uncovering the secrets of ulcer-causing bacteria

A team of researchers from Boston University, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently made a discovery that changes a long held paradigm about how bacteria move through soft ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New world Helicobacter pylori genome sequenced, dynamics of inflammation-related genes revealed

An international team of researchers led by scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have sequenced the genome of an Amerindian strain of the gastric bug Helicobacter pylori, confirming the ou ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Cancer-causing bacterium targets tumor-suppressor protein

Researchers have discovered a mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori, the only known cancer-causing bacterium, disables a tumor suppressor protein in host cells.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team finds link between stomach-cancer bug and cancer-promoting factor

Researchers report that Helicobacter pylori, the only bacterium known to survive in the harsh environment of the human stomach, directly activates an enzyme in host cells that has been associated with severa ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gutsy germs succumb to baby broccoli (w/Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A small, pilot study in 50 people in Japan suggests that eating two and a half ounces of broccoli sprouts daily for two months may confer some protection against a rampant stomach bug that ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Research finds single gene controls growth of some cancers

Research led by Ashok Aiyar, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, showing that a single gene can control growth in cancers related to the Epstein-Barr ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tummy troubles -- gastrin key in bacterial-induced stomach cancer

Current research suggests that levels of gastrin play a key role in the development of Helicobacter-induced stomach cancer. The related report by Takaishi et al, "Gastrin is an essential cofactor for Helicobacter-associated gastric corpu ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How diarrheal bacteria cause some colon cancers revealed in mouse studies

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have figured out how bacteria that cause diarrhea may also be the culprit in some colon cancers. The investigators say that strains of the common Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Closing in on an ulcer- and cancer-causing bacterium

A research team led by scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is releasing study results this week showing how a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, that causes more than half of peptic ulcers worldw ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The Medical Minute: Cancer prevention

People often ask their physicians what they can do to prevent cancers. Various supplements and unorthodox treatments to clean out the system and purge toxins are promoted by convincing arguments as a way to improve health ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New clues on the link between Heliobacter pylori and stomach cancer

Heliobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is considered one of the most important risk factors for stomach (or gastric) cancer with as much as 65% of all cases linked back to the bacteria, although exactly ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Peptic ulcer bacterium alters the body's defense system

Helicobacter pylori survives in the body by manipulating important immune system cells. This is shown in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The discovery may lead to new treatm ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cysts hold clues to pancreatic cancer

Working with researchers from the University of Michigan and Indiana University, Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) investigators have developed a method that could be used to predict whether pancreatic cysts are benign ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Long term use of oral bisphosphonates may double risk of esophageal cancer

People who take oral bisphosphonates for bone disease over five years may be doubling their risk of developing oesophageal cancer (cancer of the gullet), according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal today.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Remote-controlled capsule endoscope safely examines the stomach

A study from researchers in Germany showed that magnetic maneuvering of a modified capsule endoscope in the stomach of healthy volunteers under clinical conditions is safe, well-tolerated, and technically feasible. Maneuverability ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stomach cancer

Stomach or gastric cancer can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs and the liver. Stomach cancer causes about 800,000 deaths worldwide per year.

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