Cancer Research

Peach Extract Found To Inhibit Breast Cancer Metastasis

Laboratory tests conducted at Texas A&M AgriLife Research have found that treatments with peach extract inhibit breast cancer metastasis in mice, likely due to the mixture of phenolic compounds present in the peach extract, they write in the Journal o ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 4:33pm

Organic Food Does Not Reduce Cancer Risk

Organic food has built a lot of mythology around its process- more ethical, more nutritional, fewer pesticides, a larger penis for the sons of organic shoppers- but one claim was a puzzler only subscribed to by the kind of people who buy homeopathy and hea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2015 - 9:55am

Constant Breast Cancer Checks Lead To More Benign Biopsies

The Sun newspaper in the UK has a "check 'em Tuesday" campaign- a weekly call for women to examine their breasts. Readers are even asked to send in photos to prove compliance and can even sign up for a text message reminder. It sounds like ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 9:43pm

Cancer:The SRPK1 Goldilocks Effect

Too little or too much of an enzyme called SRPK1 promotes cancer by disrupting a regulatory event critical for many fundamental cellular processes, including proliferation, according to a paper in Molecular Cell. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 12:37pm

New Prostate Cancer Detection Can Save Millions Of Men From Painful Biopsies

Each year prostate tissue samples are taken from over a million men around the world, in most cases using 12 large biopsy needles, to check whether they have prostate cancer. Surely in 2014 something more modern can be developed, especially when 70 percen ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 9:57am

Cetuximab And Chemo For Advanced Colorectal Cancer May Lead To More Rapid Cancer Progress

Research that  evaluated whether the drug cetuximab and chemotherapy together worked better than chemotherapy alone as a treatment in addition to surgery for people with bowel cancer that had spread to the liver but could be surgically removed, found it i ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 11:54am

Genomic Analysis Leads To More Accurate Classification Of Brain Tumors

Comprehensive genomic analysis of low-grade brain tumors using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) brain tumor studies sorts them into three categories, one of which has the molecular hallmarks and shortened survival of glioblastoma multiforme, the m ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 4:34pm

High-Fat Diet Associated With Increased Risk Of Some Breast Cancer

High total and saturated fat intake were associated with greater risk of estrogen receptor- and progesterone receptor-positive (ER+PR+) breast cancer, and human epidermal growth factor 2 receptor-negative (HER2-) disease, according to a new study in the J ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 8:25pm

Viagra Linked To Risk Of Malignant Melanoma

A recent paper found an increased risk for malignant melanoma in men who took sildenafil (Viagra) for erectile dysfunction. Unlike some observational studies, this is not being exaggerated by attention-whoring researchers. They are cautious about what it m ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 11 2014 - 4:23pm

A Gene Panels Alternative To Whole-Genome Sequencing

Up to 10 percent of women with family history of breast or ovarian cancer have at least one genetic mutation that would prompt their doctors to recommend changes in their care- and it isn't BRCA1 or BRCA2. The women in the study did not have mutation ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2014 - 5:00pm