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• Reovirus May Be A Novel Approach To Prostate Cancer Treatment

  Found on MedWorm: Glioma. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 11:00am CET

  Researchers in Canada have detected a novel oncolytic viral therapy against prostate cancer with use of a virus called the reovirus, according to study results published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The respiratory, enteric, orphan virus (commonly known as reovirus) is a non-attenuated, ...

• Fewer platelets could be used for some cancer and bone-marrow transplantation patients

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (UT Southwestern Medical Center) Physicians may be able to safely lower the platelet dosage in transfusions for cancer and bone-marrow transplant patients without risking increased bleeding, according to new research involving UT Southwestern Medical Center and 28 other medical institutions....

• Research findings expected to ease treatment of low neutrophil counts in cancer patients

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) New research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators may change neutropenia treatment for all childhood cancer patients....

• Breast cancer drug fulvestrant appears more effective in the presence of CK8 and CK18

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (Indiana University) Women's responsiveness to the second-line breast cancer drug fulvestrant may depend on whether the cancer cells are expressing two key proteins, Indiana University Bloomington scientists report in this month's Cancer Biology & Therapy....

• Genomatix gives a hand in the analysis of Wayne State's sequencing projects

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (Genomatix Software GmbH) The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development at the Wayne State University School of Medicine installed a Genomatix Mining Station and a Genomatix Genome Analyzer last year at their labs in order to support the analysis of NextGen Sequencing data. Professor Stephen Krawetz , Director ...

• LSUHSC researcher finds first inherited prostate cancer genetic mutation in African-American men

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Shahriar Koochekpour, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, led research that has discovered, for the first time, a genetic mutation in African-American men with a family history of prostate cancer who are at increased risk ...

• Exploiting the architecture of cancers may lead to their destruction

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (The Company of Biologists) To grow larger, solid tumors require a network of blood vessels to nourish them. Chemotherapy exploits these vessels to deliver toxic drugs, but is inefficient if the drugs cannot pass quickly enough from the bloodstream into the tumor. A new study in Disease Models and Mechanisms ...

• Yale Study Details How And Why Of BPA's Dangers

  Found on Cancercompass News: Breast Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:00am CET

  Exposing a female fetus to a chemical found in plastics causes permanent changes in a daughter's uterus that might result in cancer -- and a research team led by a Yale doctor has figured out why....

• Herbs Give Smaller Portion A Bigger Flavor

  Found on Cancercompass News: Breast Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:00am CET

  Want to build a healthier dinner plate? Add more vegetables and cut down on portion sizes of meat and starch, say health experts and nutritionists. The New American Plate section on the American Institute for Cancer Research Web site, www.aicr.org, says to aim for a meal made up of at ...

• Cheaper Treatments Have Pros And Cons

  Found on Cancercompass News: Breast Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:00am CET

  In the past, medical tourists -- those who travel overseas to have procedures done -- typically were wealthy. But with many consumers' budgets strapped and the rising cost of medical care, a growing number of Americans are traveling elsewhere to have operations and procedures in an attempt to save money....

• Doctors, Patients Should Weigh Risks vs. Rewards Of Medical Imaging

  Found on Cancercompass News: Breast Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:00am CET

  After an imaging test revealed a small nodule in Dr. Len Lichtenfeld's lung, his doctor ordered a series of CT scans. But Lichtenfeld turned them down. As deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, Lichtenfeld knew the tiny nodule probably wasn't dangerous and that new research has documented ...

• Study Of Stubborn Breast Cancers: Group Seeks To Turn Genomic Medicine To Resistant Tumors

  Found on Cancercompass News: Breast Cancer. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:00am CET

  Life Technologies said Friday it is applying its gene sequencing prowess to a challenging project: detecting genetic information about breast cancers that show no sign of obvious mutations linked with the disease....

• Multiple Myeloma with Monoclonal Free IgG3 Heavy Chains and Free Kappa Light Chains

  Found on MedWorm: Myeloma. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 11:00pm CET

  Acta Haematol 2010;123:158–161 (DOI:10.1159/000292899) (Source: Karger Publishers)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources....

• A 31-Year-Old Woman With a Transformed Low-grade Glioma [Clinical Crossroads]

  Found on MedWorm: Glioma. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:50pm CET

  Low-grade gliomas in adults have an incidence of 0.8 to 1.2 per 100 000, and their causes are unknown. Despite their histological classification as low-grade, they cannot be cured by any current treatment mode, and no class I evidence exists to guide initial treatment of these tumors. Median survival ranges between ...

• Gliomas [JAMA Patient Page]

  Found on MedWorm: Glioma. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:50pm CET

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• Lycopene in treatment of high-grade gliomas: A pilot study

  Found on MedWorm: Glioma. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 3:01pm CET

  Conclusions : Addition of nutrition supplements such as lycopene may have potential therapeutic benefit in the adjuvant management of high-grade gliomas. (Source: Neurology India)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and ...

• Best Practices in the Management of Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Patients Who Will Not Undergo Transplant

  Found on MedWorm: Myeloma. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 1:30pm CET

  No survival advantage of autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) has been documented for patients older than 65 years, and in the era of thalidomide (Thalomid), bortezomib (Velcade), and len­alidomide (Revlimid), ASCT has a diminished role in the front-line treatment of older patients with myeloma. (Source: Cancer Network)MedWorm Message: Get the ...

• Papaya extract thwarts growth of cancer cells in lab tests

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (University of Florida) Papaya extract seems to have a toxic effect on cancer cells in culture, suggesting a potential treatment. Scientists documented for the first time that papaya leaf extract boosts the production of key signaling molecules called Th1-type cytokines. This regulation of the immune system, in addition to papaya's ...

• Sonic hedgehog gene found in an unexpected place during limb development

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (University of Florida) Sonic hedgehog is at work in mice limb buds in what is known as the ectoderm, the cell layer that gives rise to skin, researchers discovered. Finding Sonic hedgehog here is akin to discovering that yeast has crept from the batter to the frosting, where it has ...

• New study questions benefits of elective removal of ovaries during hysterectomy

  Found on EurekAlert! - Cancer. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  (Elsevier Health Sciences) Removal of the ovaries (bilateral oophorectomy) while performing a hysterectomy is common practice to prevent the subsequent development of ovarian cancer. This prophylactic procedure is performed in 55 percent of all US women having a hysterectomy, or approximately 300,000 times each year. An article in the March/April ...