Drug for cancer may cause exposed bone in jawA type of drug used to strengthen bones when cancer has spread there may be associated with a side effect that involves deterioration of the jaw bone, as per two new reviews of cancer literature. The condition, called osteonecrosis of the jaw, is marked by exposed bone in the jaw and can lead to infection, inflammation and pain.
While scientists do not fully understand the condition or what causes it, osteonecrosis of the jaw, or ONJ,........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/2/2006 9:18:52 PM)
An Antibiotic That Stops CancerHave you ever heard of antibiotic called siomycin A? Probably not, but this antibiotic might find a place in the fight against cancer. At least that's what the researchers say.
This little-known antibiotic, siomycin A shows early promise as an anti-cancer agent, inhibiting a gene found at higher-than-normal levels in most human tumors, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.
Their findings........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/1/2006 7:29:11 PM)
High-resolution CT For Shin SplintsHigh resolution CT can accurately show medial tibial stress syndrome, better known as shin splints, in distance runners according, to a study conducted at the University of Messina in Messina, Italy.
As per the study, medial tibial stress syndrome is one of a number of overuse lower leg injuries that may be found in athletes and accounts for between 13.2% and 17.3% of all running injuries.
For the study, high-resolution CT of both tibiae........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/28/2006 10:01:25 PM)
Finger Length Ratio May Predict Women's Sporting ProwessThe difference between the lengths of a woman's index and ring fingers may indicate her sporting prowess, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The finding supports other research indicating a possible link between this ratio and fertility, vulnerability to serious disease, intellectual ability, certain personality traits, and musical talent.
Most of the sporting research in this area has so........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/27/2006 9:26:10 PM)
Pink SatNav For Female DriversIf you think, you can guide your own way without a GPS unit with you then this CarTrek 400s Hot Pink SatNav might hook you into getting one for your Pink VW Beetle. This hot pink GPS Navigation System features an LCD touchscreen and it features NavTech technology and maps, which cover the whole of Europe.
The SatNav unit even tells you about points of interests along your route. And, with the plug-n-play simplicity, its an easy candy to deal........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/26/2006 7:44:07 PM)
Gene Therapy For Prostate CancerResearchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) are hoping a new gene therapy that takes a gene called RTVP-1 directly into the prostate tumor will prove effective in preventing recurrence of the disease.
The first phase of the study is designed to test the safety of the treatment and determine the proper dosage of gene, said Dr. Dov Kadmon, professor of urology at BCM. It will be carried out in the department of urology at BCM as well as at........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/25/2006 10:00:37 PM)
Breast Cancer Risk Factor ReeavaluationBreast density has been recently been found to be a major risk factor for the development of breast cancer. In a recent issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute this issue is highlighted. The discussion revolves around the question: should breast density be added to the Gail model in predicting breast cancer occurrence?
The Gail model is a breast cancer prediction tool that is widely used. Gail model estimates a woman's risk of........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/25/2006 4:36:35 PM)
Chemotherapy And Hearing LossChildren receiving chemotherapy might be very suseptible to hearing loss. These childeren who lose hearing due to the toxic effects of chemotherapy might one day be able to get their hearing back through pharmacological and gene therapy, thanks to work done with mouse models at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Mice with a variety of genetic mutations that disrupt different parts of the ear will also help scientists understand age-related........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/24/2006 10:29:22 PM)
Taller Women More Likely To Conceive TwinsTaller women are more likely to have twins as per experts. They suggest insulin-like growth factorr is responsible for this increased incedence. By comparing the heights of women who had given birth to twins or triplets with the average height of women in the United States, Gary Steinman, MD, PhD, an attending doctor at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center, found that the multiple-birth mothers averaged more than an inch taller. The study........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/23/2006 11:33:07 AM)
Corn And Soy Plastics To Be Made Into Hog FeedersRichard Larock sorted through a pile of neatly labeled baggies filled with the plastics he makes from corn, soybean and other bio-based oils.
Larock, a University Professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, found the thin, square piece he was looking for and smacked it against his hand. This one is made from soybean oil reinforced with glass fibers, he said. And it's the kind of tough bioplastic he and his industrial collaborators will........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/20/2006 10:04:13 PM)
Can a spoonful of sugar treat cancer?A leading Yorkshire scientist is trying to develop new drugs by synthesising different forms of the special sugars found in cancer cells. Now, with support from the Association for International Cancer Research (AICR), Dr Robert Falconer will be using his discovery to search for new molecules to stop disease spread.
Dr Falconer, a Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry based in the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics at the University of Bradford........Go to the Cancer-articles (Added on 9/20/2006 8:52:34 PM)
More Lymph Nodes The BetterLatest research shows that the more number of lymph nodes removed, the better result with fewer recurrence of breast cancer.
Among women with node-negative breast cancer, those who had fewer than six lymph nodes removed during axillary lymph node dissection were more likely to experience a cancer recurrence than women who had a larger number of nodes removed. These results were published in the Annals of Oncology.
Axillary lymph node........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/20/2006 8:35:55 PM)
Lobbying for cancer researchLobbying for cancer is a worthwhile effort.
More than 3,300 cancer patients, survivors, friends and relatives fanned out across Capitol Hill on Wednesday to lobby Congress for more money for cancer research and detection.
Aiming to visit the offices of every member of Congress, the group also appealed to lawmakers to reauthorize a program that provides breast and cervical cancer screening and therapy for uninsured women.
President........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/20/2006 8:27:43 PM)
Detecting Cancer with Silica NanoparticlesUsing silica nanoparticles labeled with the molecule guanine, scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have now created a simple and inexpensive electrochemical method that detects tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) at clinically useful levels. Moreover, this assay is amenable to miniaturization, suggesting that it could be easily incorporated into a microfluidics-based assay system.
Reporting its work in the journal........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/20/2006 8:15:19 PM)
Does breast implants increase suicide rateWomen who have breast implants might not have a higher mortality rate, but they have a higher risk of dying from suicide as per new research findings. In this by the Canadian Public Health Agency and Cancer Care Ontario which evaluated 24,600 women found that having breast implants is not a cause of increased mortality. Nevertheless they found that suicide rate among women with breast implants is 73% higher than........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/20/2006 5:05:10 AM)
Chronic Hepatitis CThe hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the most important causes of chronic liver disease in the United States. It accounts for about 15 percent of acute viral hepatitis, 60 to 70 percent of chronic hepatitis, and up to 50 percent of cirrhosis, end-stage liver disease, and liver cancer. Almost 4 million Americans, or 1.8 percent of the U.S. population, have antibody to HCV (anti-HCV), indicating ongoing or previous infection with the virus.........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/18/2006 7:12:10 PM)
Pre Operative Chemotherapy For Rectal CancerPreoperative chemotherapy is very commonly used in the treatment of rectal cancer. But is there any evidence of better outcome with preoperative chemotherapy compared to post-operative chemo therapy?
According to an article recently published in the New England Journal (NEJM), chemotherapy survival rates are similar among patients with rectal cancer whether chemotherapy is given before or after surgery.
The rectum is the last portion of........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/18/2006 7:00:25 PM)
Save Lids To Save LivesEvery lid matters, because every lid gets us closer to our goal of giving $1.5 million to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. For every lid we get, we'll donate 10 cents to the Foundation, up to $1.5 million. And we guarantee to donate at least $500,000.
Working together, one lid at a time, we can get there. So, this is a chance for each of us to take part in the search for a cure. Doing your part couldn't be........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/14/2006 9:09:22 PM)
Spread Of Eye Cancer To LiverScientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a method to predict whether melanoma of the eye will spread to the liver, where it quickly turns deadly. They also believe the molecular screening test may one day help determine the prognosis of patients with some types of skin melanoma.
J. William Harbour, M.D., the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and associate........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/14/2006 5:58:52 PM)
Teens and depressionThere has been much controversy in recent years regarding the connection between teenage suicide and the use of antidepressant drugs. At an FDA meeting reviewing this topic, the majority of clinical trials examined did not show that the drugs were effective in treating depression in children and adolescents.
In a recent study reported in the recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Dr. Richard Malone, from the Department of........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/13/2006 9:35:57 PM)
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How White Blood Cells Eat Virus-infected CellsResearchers at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) at Oregon Health & Science University have demonstrated how certain white blood cells literally eat virus-infected cells while fighting disease at the microscopic level. The research not only helps provide a clearer understanding of the body's immune system, it also offers hope of a new method for gauging vaccine effectiveness. The research is published in the current edition of the........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/2/2006 9:38:41 PM)
Researchers Stop Colon CancerResearchers from Texas were able to stop the growth of colon cancer in mice by blocking just one enzyme. They say that this is a big step against conquering cancer. Even though this was an experiment on mice, these researchers hope that their findings might soon find its way to human cancers including colon cancer.
In cell culture experiments, scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/1/2006 8:04:21 PM)
Radiofreqency Ablation For Ovarian CancerPercutaneous radiofrequency ablation, a procedure that uses a high frequency electric current to kill tumor cells, is effective in achieving local control in selected patients with metastasis from ovarian cancer, according to a preliminary study conducted by the department of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.
The study consisted of six patients with advanced ovarian cancer who underwent radiofrequency ablation to........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/28/2006 9:57:28 PM)
Anti-angiogenesis To Fight CancerA researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has discovered a new part of the complicated mechanism that governs the formation of blood vessels, or angiogenesis.
The finding may help halt tumor growth in cancer patients, says Emery Bresnick, the senior author on the study, a professor of pharmacology and member of the UW-Madison Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The research, reported........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/28/2006 9:37:19 PM)
IMRT Cures Prostate CancerResults from the largest study of men with prostate cancer treated with high-dose, intensity modulated radiation treatment (IMRT) show that the majority of patients remain alive with no evidence of disease after an average follow-up period of eight years. The 561 patients with prostate cancer treated with IMRT at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center were classified into prognostic risk groups. After an average of eight years, 89 percent of........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/27/2006 6:50:07 PM)
Insights into Breast Cancer GeneticsLast few decades stands out in the history of breast cancer, with significant progress in elucidating the genetics and molecular basis of breast cancer. Majority of researchers believe in a "two hit hypothesis" as initiating events of breast cancer in patients who stand a high risk of developing breast cancer because of inherited genetic abnormalities. This double hit theory assumes that even though people are born with a specific a genetic........Go to the Cancer-articles (Added on 9/25/2006 9:52:45 PM)
A Drop Of Blood Is All That TakesStomach cancer has no symptoms in its early stages, so getting a jump on therapy is difficult. That is why stomach cancer is the fifth-most common cancer in Taiwan. But now, a team of scientists at National Taiwan University Hospital have improved our abilities to detect stomach cancer earlier. After years of hard work, they discovered a toxic factor "GroES" that causes stomach cancer. In the future, a simple blood test will give a positive or........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/25/2006 4:52:19 PM)
Hawaiian CricketsIn only a few generations, the male cricket on Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands, underwent a mutation a sudden heritable change in its genetic material that rendered it incapable of using song, its sexual signal, to attract female crickets, as per a new study by UC Riverside evolutionary biologists.
In addition, the scientists observed that eventhough the new male crickets' wings lack the file and scraper apparatus mandatory for........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/24/2006 10:25:30 PM)
Alcoholics AnonymousThere is a strong link between alcohol use and violence, such as homicide. New research that looks at the relationship among drinking, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) membership, and homicide mortality has observed that AA can have a beneficial effect on alcohol-related homicide mortality rates, especially among males who consume beer and spirits.
Results are reported in the recent issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
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Sea Squirts Problem PersistingScientists have just completed a field survey of the invasive sea squirt colony on the Georges Bank, first discovered in 2003. A wider area was searched for the sea squirt this year, and it was mapped over about twice the area observed in 2004. Results show that the species is present in two adjacent areas totaling 88 square miles in U.S. waters near the U.S.-Canada boundary. The very large mat-like colonies observed in 2004 have been replaced........Go to the Cancer-articles (Added on 9/20/2006 10:00:01 PM)
Mariska's Dad Mickey Hargitay Dies at 80Mickey Hargitay, the 1955 Mr. Universe and father - with late sex symbol Jayne Mansfield - of actress Mariska Hargitay, died of multiple myeloma Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Ellen, his wife of 38 years, tells the Los Angeles Times. He was 80.
"Words cannot express how saddened we are by the loss of Mickey," his family said in a statement, the Associated Press reports. "At the same time, we are so grateful for who........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/20/2006 8:45:49 PM)
Fatty Fish Consumption Protects Women From CancerContext The epidemiological evidence that fatty fish consumption may be linked to the lower risk of several cancers is not consistent and no studies of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) exist.
Objective To examine the association between fatty and lean fish consumption and risk of RCC in women.
Design, Setting, and Participants The Swedish Mammography Cohort, a population-based prospective cohort study of 61 433 women aged 40 to 76 years........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/20/2006 8:38:03 PM)
Cancer Scientist Animal Rights Activist JailedA cancer research specialist described as "brilliant" was today jailed for three years after he pleaded guilty to leading a double life as an animal rights saboteur.
Joseph Harris, 26, a doctor of molecular biology who has been working on a therapy for pancreas cancer at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, waged a campaign of vandalism against three companies which carried out work for Huntingdon Life Sciences, an animal testing firm.
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Why Chemotherapy causes bad taste for Food?It's a common experience among patients who are receiving chemotherapy to have no tast for food. About two million cancer patients currently receiving certain drug therapies and chemotherapy find foods and beverages to have a foul metallic flavor, according to a medical study. In general, more than 40 percent of hospitalized patients suffer from malnutrition due to taste and smell dysfunction.
"Unfortunately, these problems that impact........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/20/2006 5:10:41 AM)
New Hope For Leukemia ResearchNow a mouse model of leukemia is set to help with the therapy of acute myeloid leukemia. This new research has developed a new strain of mice that should help reveal how an unusual change in a certain gene contributes to a particularly deadly form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Scientists from Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center suggests that the genetic change comes early in the disease, and that it over-activates a second........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/19/2006 8:52:54 PM)
Dear CancerDEAR CANCER is a book of inspiration and comfort that will make the reader laugh, cry, and see adversity in a new light.
The author shares her true story of living with stage IV breast cancer from the shock of diagnosis to the rigors of chemotherapy and other treatments.
Written with honesty, sensitivity and humor, DEAR CANCER will support and encourage anyone who is confronted by cancer, or any life-changing illness, or event.
DEAR........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/18/2006 7:04:57 PM)
Addition of Gemzar Improves Survival in Ovarian CancerAccording to new research findings in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the addition of Gemzar® (gemcitabine) to Paraplatin® (carboplatin) improves progression-free survival among women who received previous therapies for the therapy of ovary cancer.
Ovary cancer is the eighth most common cancer among women. It is considered to be one of the most deadly cancers because the vast majority of patients are diagnosed once the cancer has........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 9/18/2006 6:52:08 PM)
Can Handle Flu PandemicThe most cost effective and quickest way to respond to a flu pandemic within the next five years is to use existing facilities to make vaccines from cell cultures, new research suggests.
In a study led by University of Michigan professor of chemical and biomedical engineering Henry Wang and doctoral student Lyle Lash, researchers examined the economics of producing egg versus cell culture vaccines in the event of a flu pandemic. They found........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/14/2006 8:29:36 PM)
Diabetics And Lower Limb AmputationsA number of people suffering foot and leg pain falsely attribute their aches to temporary discomfort or simply "growing old," when something far more serious and often preventable is frequently taking place.
People that neglect foot and leg pain especially the 20.8 million people in the U.S. with diabetes can be at risk for amputation. This neglect has contributed to a sharp rise in amputations, with the Centers for Disease Control........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 9/13/2006 9:39:27 PM)
Exercise Reduces Colon-cancer RiskRegular, moderate-to-vigorous aerobic exercise significantly reduces a risk factor associated with the formation of colon polyps and colon cancer in men, according to a study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The findings, from the first randomized clinical trial to test the effect of exercise on colon-cancer biomarkers in colon tissue, appear in the recent issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
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