Cancer Research

Apigenin- Why Fruits And Vegetables Improve Patient Response To Chemotherapy

The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells.   A study by UC Riverside biochemists that focuses on cancer cells reports that ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2008 - 6:53pm

You Knew This- Surgeons Who Practice Are Better At It

Approximately 180,000 new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States and about 40 percent of those diagnosed will undergo surgery as part of their treatment.   Every patient assumes it will go well but patients operated on by surgeon ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2008 - 1:08pm

Your Next Cancer Therapy May Be A Virus

Viruses aren't just disease agents any more.  Scientists now know they can be used in therapies for cancer but concerns over the safety of  'oncolytic viruses' remain because they can also damage healthy tissues. But Mayo Clinic researchers ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2008 - 6:15pm

Vigorous Exercise May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk By 30 Percent

Normal-weight women who carry out lots of vigorous exercise are approximately 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who don't exercise vigorously, according to a study of more than thirty thousand postmenopausal American women reported i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2008 - 10:51pm

National Nanotech Conference To Be Held At U of Albany On November 7th

National Nanotech Conference To Be Held At U of Albany On November 7 th The University of Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, along with Empire State Science and Technology, will present the “ Symposium on the Convergence of Bio/Nanotec ...

Blog Post - Jen Miller - Dec 7 2018 - 12:57pm

The Psychology Of Breast Cancer Survival

A new study finds that breast cancer patients who participate in intervention sessions focusing on improving mood, coping effectively, and altering health behaviors live longer than patients who do not receive such psychological support. Published in the D ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2008 - 12:34am

Why Do Only Some Smokers Get Lung Cancer?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more people die from lung cancer than any other cancer type. In fact, according to 2004 data, more people died from lung cancer than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined.  Smoking is the b ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2008 - 12:40pm

Lactic Acid Fuels Tumor Growth, Says Study

A team of researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) has found that lactic acid is an important energy source for tumor cells. In further experiments, they discovered a new way to destroy the most hard-to-k ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2008 - 10:02pm

Sporadic Breast Cancer Gets Less Attention Than Hereditary But AKT1 Could Soon Change That

Breast cancer, the leading cause of death among women in France, is the most commonly occurring cancer in women. Sporadic breast cancer, which is non-hereditary, turns out to be the most widespread, representing 85 to 90% of all cases, but remains the leas ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2008 - 1:07pm

Finding the Off Switch in Leukemia Cells

Cancer cells of all types have one thing in common: they have escaped the built-in controls of cell reproduction, and as a result, tumors grow as the out-of-control cells keep dividing. This out-of-control cell division in cancer is very closely connected ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Nov 24 2008 - 1:09pm