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Preclinical breakthrough: Scientists beat rare skin cancer tumors
A husband and wife team of scientists at the University of Pittsburgh tested an experimental drug called YM155 in lab mice infested with the rare cancer, and found that the drug beat back tumor growth in lab mice without being toxic.
Stay calm, folks: Highly anxious mice developed more aggressive cancer
Cancer is bad enough, but anxiety could make the disease even worse as it progresses.
Powerful protein halts DNA damage and may block tumors
TopBP1: Remember that somewhat unwieldy name. It refers to a protein researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital believe prevents DNA damage early in the formation of a brain. What's more, they think it could suppress tumor development.
Treatment for aggressive form of prostate cancer may be on horizon
A drug tested unsuccessfully in patients with prostate cancer may actually benefit patients who suffer from neuroendocrine prostate tumors, a particularly lethal form of the disease. Weill Cornell
A possible way to stop a tumor from spreading: Look inside
Variations of the amino acid tyrosine may serve as a potentially safer way to block tumor metastasis, Argentinian researchers have found. Equally intriguing, they discovered the compounds housed
Green dye lights up hidden ovarian tumor targets for cancer surgeons
Working around the concept that ovarian tumors contain more folate receptors than healthy tissue, a group of scientists has developed a new method to tag folate with a fluorescent dye and use the
Stanford researchers separate tumor-causing stem cells from therapeutic ones
A major obstacle to widespread therapeutic use of human embryonic stem cells is this nasty tendency for a few of them to turn "Frankenstein" on us . Out of the tens of millions of pluripotent cells
Nanoparticles help detect circulating tumor cells
Tumors can give themselves away early because they shed what are called circulating tumor cells (CTCs) into the blood stream. The trouble is, using current detection methods, it is difficult to
Rogosin investigators use cancer to fight cancer
Researchers at the Rogosin Institute are engaged in an early-stage study of a whole new approach to fighting cancer. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, investigators want to see if a
Group to test new cancer therapies in mouse model
The Jackson Laboratory is teaming up with the UC Davis Cancer Center on a new biomedical research initiative that will allow researchers to extract a solid tumor from an individual cancer patient and
