http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/cancer-articles.html Cancer articles From Thecancerblog Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT en-us http://www.thecancerblog.org/images/blogs/cancer-articles-78190.jpg http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/cancer-articles.html 98 80 http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2008/statins-do-not-interfere-with-rituximab-treatment.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2008/statins-do-not-interfere-with-rituximab-treatment.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT Statins, drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol, do not interfere with a usually used medicine to treat lymphomas, as per a Mayo Clinic study presented today at the. 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (http://www.hematology.org/meetings/2008/) in San Francisco. In fact, statins may slow the progression of certain types of lymphoma........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/9-2008/cancer-therapy-approval-available.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/9-2008/cancer-therapy-approval-available.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT Eventhough cancer remains a leading cause of death in America, it can take up to 12 years to bring a new anti-cancer agent before the FDA and the success rate for approval is only five to 10 percent. That means a number of research hours and dollars are wasted chasing avenues that will not bring fruit........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/patients-75-years-and-older-with-brain-tumors.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/patients-75-years-and-older-with-brain-tumors.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT A new study from University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC) finds that elderly patients 75 years old and older-- with cancerous brain tumors are not treated as aggressively as patients between 65 and 75 years old. Furthermore, the scientists find that if patients over 75 years old are treated aggressively, such as with surgery and radiation, they have better survival rates. The findings are reported in the recent issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2008/the-cancer-related-protein-akt.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2008/the-cancer-related-protein-akt.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT The cancer-related protein Akt may profoundly influence the fate of the tau protein, which forms bundles of tangled nerve cell fibers in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease, reports a new study led by scientists at the University of South Florida and the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. The study was published online Feb. 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2008/cell-phone-cancer-link-found.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2008/cell-phone-cancer-link-found.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT An Israeli scientist, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, has found a link between cell phone usage and the development of tumors. Dr. Sadetzki, a physician, epidemiologist and lecturer at Tel Aviv University, published the results of a study recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology, in which she and her colleagues observed that heavy cell phone users were subject to a higher risk of non-malignant and cancerous tumors of the salivary gland........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2008/4-health-behaviors-can-add-14-extra-years-of-life.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2008/4-health-behaviors-can-add-14-extra-years-of-life.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT People who adopt four healthy behaviours not smoking; taking exercise; moderate alcohol intake; and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day live on average an additional fourteen years of life compared with people who adopt none of these behaviours, according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/silencing-small-but-mighty-cancer-inhibitors.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2007/silencing-small-but-mighty-cancer-inhibitors.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT Scientists from Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered another reason why one of the most usually activated proteins in cancer is in fact so dangerous. As reported in Nature Genetics this week, the Myc protein can stop the production of at least 13 microRNAs, small pieces of nucleic acid that help control which genes are turned on and off........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2007/stereo-mammography-improves-cancer-detection.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2007/stereo-mammography-improves-cancer-detection.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT A new radiological diagnostic tool called stereo mammography allows clinicians to detect more lesions and could significantly reduce the number of women who are recalled for additional tests following routine screening mammography. The findings from a clinical trial underway at Emory University were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America held in Chicago........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2007/new-therapeutic-molecular-target-to-fight-cancer.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2007/new-therapeutic-molecular-target-to-fight-cancer.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT Scientists at the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have identified the enzyme sphingosine kinase 2 as a possible new therapeutic target to improve the efficacy of chemotherapy for colon and breast cancer. In the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Cancer Research, scientists examined human colon and breast cancer cells and established a role of sphingosine kinase 2 (SphK2), an enzyme that forms the potent lipid mediator sphingosine-1-phosphate in the death of cancer cells mediated by the chemotherapeutic drug, doxorubicin........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/10-2007/new-treatment-option-for-bladder-cancer.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/10-2007/new-treatment-option-for-bladder-cancer.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT A chemotherapy regimen for patients with advanced bladder cancer who aren't eligible for standard therapy is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. The unfortunate reality is that kidney problems often result from bladder cancer which precludes the usual chemotherapy package of cisplatin and gemcitabine, says Dr. Teresa A. Coleman, hematologist-oncologist at the MCG Cancer Center........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/9-2007/adolescent-children-of-cancer-patients.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/9-2007/adolescent-children-of-cancer-patients.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT A new study by Dutch scientists has observed that adolescents may suffer from severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress when a parent is recently diagnosed with cancer and that parents tend to underestimate the problems. A cancer diagnosis is among those life experiences that can be so stressful that it is traumatic. While only a fraction of people who develop post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) go on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the symptoms can cause emotional problems during the later part of life. Much is known about the psychological effect that cancer has on a patient and a spouse, but the consequences of a parent's cancer on children are more poorly understood........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/9-2007/shrinkage-of-prostate-of-cancer.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/9-2007/shrinkage-of-prostate-of-cancer.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT Reanalysis of data from the first long-term randomized trial of a chemopreventive agent for prostate cancer shows that the excess prevalence of high-grade prostate cancer in the drug-treated group may be attributable to shrinkage of the prostate at the time of biopsy. The study of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, led by University of Illinois at Chicago professor of pathology Dr. Peter Gann, is reported in the Sept. 12 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/8-2007/birth-records-hold-pancreatic-cancer-clue.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/8-2007/birth-records-hold-pancreatic-cancer-clue.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT Pregnancies in Jerusalem in the 1960s and 1970s may hold vital clues about how pancreas cancer and diabetes are linked. As per research reported in the online open access journal BMC Medicine, women with a history of gestational diabetes had a higher risk of developing pancreas cancer during the later part of life........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2007/elevated-leukaemia-rates-near-nuclear-facilities.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2007/elevated-leukaemia-rates-near-nuclear-facilities.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT Leukaemia rates in children and young people are elevated near nuclear facilities, but no clear explanation exists to explain the rise, according to a research review published in the recent issue of European Journal of Cancer Care. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina carried out a sophisticated meta-analysis of 17 research papers covering 136 nuclear sites in the UK, Canada, France, the USA, Germany, Japan and Spain........ ]]> http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2007/skin-rash-actually-signifies-better-outcomes.html http://www.thecancerblog.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2007/skin-rash-actually-signifies-better-outcomes.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:20 GMT The appearance of a rash in cancer patients treated with erlotinib (Tarceva) is strongly linked to longer survival, as per scientists from the drug's developer, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. This is not the first time that rash has been linked to a survival advantage with EGFR inhibitors - a class of drugs which includes erlotinib, cetuximab, panitumumab and others designed to block overproduction of the epidermal growth factor receptor - but it is the most detailed analysis to date........ ]]>