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Archive for December 20th, 2011


Researchers use light to measure cancer cells’ response to treatment

Many cancer therapies target specific proteins that proliferate on the outside of some cancer cells, but the therapies are imperfect and the cancer does not always respond. Researchers have now demonstrated a new way to optically test cultured cancer cells’ response to a particular cancer drug.

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New take on impacts of low dose radiation

Working with a special line of human breast cells, researchers have shown that for low dose levels of ionizing radiation cancer risks may not be directly proportional to dose. This contradicts the standard model for predicting biological damage from ionizing radiation, which holds that risk is directly proportional to dose at all levels of irradiation.

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Breast cancer – meets a killer in mushroom

A Hong Kong Polytechnic University scientist has extracted a protein complex from the African tiger milk mushroom that he claims can help kill breast cancer cells.

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Breast cancer gene mutations may also lead to heart problems: studies

Two gene mutations known to put women who carry them at significantly higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers may also predispose those same women to heart disease, a pair of new studies suggest.

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Key Genetic Mutations In Family Of Blood Cancers

A study published online in Nature Genetics reveals that scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered a critical genetic mutation in some patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, which is are blood cancers that can progress to a fatal form of leukemia…

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EPA Questions Its Own Approval Of Experimental Method For Asbestos Demolition

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds itself under fire in Fort Worth, Texas, because of an experimental method for handling asbestos before a building is destroyed.

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Some Truths About Asbestos Lung Mesothelioma

There are various kinds of mesothelioma however asbestos lung mesothelioma is an asbestos-induced most cancers of the mesothelium of the lung, more familiarly generally known as the pleura, which is the external lining of the lung. Most of the major organs of the physique have a mesothelium, that of the guts being called the pericardium [...]

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Filling For Mesothelioma Injury Statements

If you have contracted Mesothelioma, there is a massive opportunity for you to file for Mesothelioma harm statements. If you have contracted this condition due to a give good results hazard, you are qualified to declare a settlement. This is a critical condition which usually prospects to the inability to establish an money for your [...]

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What Is Mesothelioma Asbestos?

Mesothelioma is a deadly cancer with no cure. The symptoms, which often mimic much less-serious diseases, make the most cancers tough to diagnose. Mesothelioma is a cancer that most individuals don’t even know they’ve till 20 or 50 years after publicity to the cancer causing agent. Affecting roughly 2,000 to three,000 folks in America each [...]

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Attorneys And Solicitors : Aid With Regard To Claims Conditions

The advice of an occurrence law firm is very important when an incident takes place involving mishaps. Injured events find the aid of those Lawyers And Legal professionals to help them together with claims as well as court situations. The same also will apply for the carcinoma of the lung, where the mesothelioma attorneys will [...]

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