News tagged with tumor aggressiveness
PSA test better predicts cancer in men taking prostate-shrinking drug
The PSA screening test for prostate cancer is not perfect. It can indicate cancer when none is present and miss life-threatening tumors. But a new study suggests the test is more reliable in men taking dutasteride (Avodart®), ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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How to widen the hunt for targeted cancer therapy
(AP) -- Cancer is a tale of two sets of genetic code, your own and your tumor's - and tracing the unique areas of damage makes for a way to target treatment.
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Americans are treated, and overtreated, to death
(AP) -- The doctors finally let Rosaria Vandenberg go home. For the first time in months, she was able to touch her 2-year-old daughter who had been afraid of the tubes and machines in the hospital. The little girl climbed ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Delay in surgery not likely to worsen tumors in men with low-risk prostate cancer
Johns Hopkins experts have found that men enrolled in an active surveillance program for prostate cancer that eventually needed surgery to remove their prostates fared just as well as men who opted to remove the gland immediately, ...
Jun 08, 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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Tumor-attacking virus strikes with 'one-two punch'
Ohio State University cancer researchers have developed a tumor-attacking virus that both kills brain-tumor cells and blocks the growth of new tumor blood vessels.
Dec 01, 2009 |
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A Viral Cause of Prostate Cancer?
(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 |
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SNPs linked with prostate cancer confirmed in Japanese men too
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 |
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Mayo researchers: Dramatic outcomes in prostate cancer study
Two Mayo Clinic patients whose prostate cancer had been considered inoperable are now cancer free thanks in part to an experimental drug therapy that was used in combination with standardized hormone treatment and radiation ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Metastasis-promoting protein identified; could provide a prognostic test or target for breast cancer
Tumors that are about to progress and metastasize go through a process also seen in normal embryonic development, known as the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). Tumor cells revert to a less-differentiated state, ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Study in mice shows mechanisms behind immune responses to brain tumors
Findings from a study conducted in mice, published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine next week, provide new insights into how an effective immune response to brain tumors could potentially be brought about in humans ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 13, 2009 |
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