Cancer Research

Trastuzumab Should Remain Standard Of Care For HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

Analysis of more than 8,000 women who participated in the world's largest study of two treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer reinforces clinical trial findings showing that trastuzumab (Herceptin) should remain the standard of care for this canc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2014 - 3:01pm

Ultrasound Elastography: 'Virtual Breast' Could Improve Cancer Detection

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, which is why so many medical professionals encourage women to get mammograms. But the tests are not very accurate: only a minority of suspicious mammograms actually leads to a cancer diag ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 7:00am

Apoptosis Inhibitor Of Macrophage Stops Liver Cancer In Its Tracks

A research group has discovered that AIM- Apoptosis Inhibitor of Macrophage- a protein that plays a preventive role in obesity progression, can also prevent tumor development in mice liver cells.  This discovery may lead to a therapy for hepatocellular ca ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2014 - 10:30am

Cancer Treatment: New, Improved...And Economic Exploitation?

A few years ago there was concern that poor people did not have access to the best health care because of high cost, but two new papers find that spending is actually too high. The first study examines recent trends in spending and use of oral cancer drug ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 4:42pm

Breast Implants Investigated For Link To Lymphoma

Researchers are investigating a possible association between breast implants and a form of lymphoma that may develop tumors at a later stage. The researchers conclude that breast implants can cause a new subtype of the rare yet malignant lymphoma known as ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 5:51pm

Cancer Might Grow Faster At Night

It's not a movie about zombies, but it's a Halloween nightmare- at night while we sleep unaware, something deadly grows and spreads quickly. In a surprise finding, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have found that nighttime is the right t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 3:25pm

Autophagy Discovery May Lead To Less Chemotherapy

No matter what type of chemotherapy you attack a tumor with, many cancer cells resort to the same survival tactic: They start eating themselves. This autophagy process happens when two proteins pair up and switch it on this process, according to a new pap ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 11:00am

Individual Lung Tumors Have Genomic Consistency

Cancer-driving genomic aberrations in localized lung cancer appear are so consistently present across tumors that a single biopsy of one region of the tumor is likely to identify most of them, according to a new paper. The study addresses the challenge of ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 2:30pm

Almost One Third Of UK Lung Cancer Patients Dies Within 3 Months Of Diagnosis

Though health care is free, it doesn't always come without a cost. The United Kingdom is behind most countries in lung cancer survival and the big reason is because it goes undiagnosed. It isn't that people won't go to the doctor due to cos ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 7:30am

FOXP2: Silencing Speech Gene Causes Cancer Cells To Metastasize

Metastasis of breast cancer occurs when cells move from the primary tumor to other parts of the body. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 11:42am