A research team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists has identified a potential new target for treatment of the childhood eye tumor retinoblastoma. Their work also settles a scientific debate by showing the cancer's cellular origins are as scrambled as the developmental...
New research from a team including several Carnegie scientists demonstrates that a specific small segment of RNA could play a key role in the growth of a type of malignant childhood eye tumor called retinoblastoma. The tumor is associated with mutations of a protein called Rb, or retinoblastoma...
Researchers from New England report in a new study that using a tumor marker, serum CA 19-9, combined with an endoscopic ultrasound if the tumor marker is elevated, is more likely to detect stage 1 pancreatic cancer in a high-risk population than by using the standard means of detection. The...
Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood is a "powerful predictor" to help physicians more reliably assess treatment benefit for patients with metastatic breast cancer. The findings from a large analysis using...
...age. Left is a 6 year old female? Tortie that is extremely skittish and shy. She has become even more reserved since we lost the two cats recently.
We want to get another cat right away but aren't sure whether it would be better to get a male or a female. We are completely unsure how our...
...age. Left is a 6 year old female? Tortie that is extremely skittish and shy. She has become even more reserved since we lost the two cats recently.
We want to get another cat right away but aren't sure whether it would be better to get a male or a female. We are completely unsure how our...
We just found out two days ago that he has a cancerous tumor in his stomach. They did surgery today to look at it and to do something with the small intestine that they tumor was wrapped around. They said the tumor is so big it's taking over what the doctor calls "God's region" (major organs)...
We just found out two days ago that he has a cancerous tumor in his stomach. They did surgery today to look at it and to do something with the small intestine that they tumor was wrapped around. They said the tumor is so big it's taking over what the doctor calls "God's region" (major organs)...
When surgically removing an invasive breast cancer tumor, if the surgeon also removes 2mm of tissue surrounding the tumor the risk of residual disease is minimized in 98% of cases, according to a new study carried out by British surgeons and published in the peer-reviewed medical journal the...
A large study focused on documenting the strength and fitness of childhood brain tumor survivors has found that many face health challenges as they age. The study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators showed that although most participants were young adults in their 20s...
The Georgia Institute of Technology has received a EUREKA grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design a new way to treat invasive brain tumors by capturing the migrating cells that spread the disease. The EUREKA -- Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge...
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation ("Novartis") announced that results of a Phase III study show Afinitor® (everolimus) tablets plus best supportive care (BSC) more than doubled progression-free survival, or time without tumor growth, versus placebo plus BSC in patients with advanced...
UT Southwestern Medical Center is the only site in North Texas participating in a national study that offers advanced lung-cancer patients free screenings of their tumors for genetic mutations, some of which might be targets for treatment with existing or experimental therapies. UT...
Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA have developed a powerful new technique for analyzing the genome of single tumor cells. The breakthrough allows them to study in fine detail the biology of how tumors develop and has the potential to help doctors identify dangerous tumor...
UT Southwestern Medical Center is the only site in North Texas participating in a national study that offers advanced lung-cancer patients free screenings of their tumors for genetic mutations, some of which might be targets for treatment with existing or experimental therapies. UT...
Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA have developed a powerful new technique for analyzing the genome of single tumor cells. The breakthrough allows them to study in fine detail the biology of how tumors develop and has the potential to help doctors identify dangerous tumor...
A new study of metastatic breast cancer shows that the number of circulating tumor cells patients have in their blood directly correlates with the length of their survival. Reported at the IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference in Brussels, Belgium, the results have the potential to improve the...
Overexpression of the ARD1A gene (arrest-defective protein 1225) in mice reduced the number and size of both primary tumors and metastases, researchers report in a new study published online March 1 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. ARD1A blocks the expression of VEGFA (vascular...
Overexpression of the ARD1A gene (arrest-defective protein 1225) in mice reduced the number and size of both primary tumors and metastases, researchers report in a new study published online March 1 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. ARD1A blocks the expression of VEGFA (vascular...
Biomedical researchers at the University of Central Florida have found a protein that could hold the key to treating one of the most common and aggressive brain tumors in adults. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the type of malignant brain tumor that killed the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, is...