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Nearly half of all deaths from prostate cancer can be predicted before age 50

Focusing prostate cancer testing on men at highest risk of developing the disease is likely to improve the ratio between benefits and the harms of screening, a new paper suggests.

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Sensors Implanted into Mesothelioma Tumors Will Be Another Step Towards Personalized Treatment

The World Health Organization estimates nearly 43,000 mesothelioma deaths worldwide each year. According to the latest statistics, nearly 3,000 Americans are diagnosed with the disease each year and close to 2,000 Great Britain residents die from the cancer each year. Now, with new research focusing on implants to monitor cancer tumors, mesothelioma patients may have …

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VAXIMM Reports Positive Topline Data From First Oral Cancer Vaccine Trial

Study meets endpoints and demonstrates safety and tolerability of VXM01 VAXIMM AG, a Swiss-German biotech company focusing on oral cancer vaccines, announced today topline data from the first clinical trial of its investigational oral cancer vaccine VXM01…

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Helping healthy cells could be key to fighting leukemia, research suggests

Instead of focusing on the elimination of cancer cells, maintaining a stable population of healthy blood cells in the bone marrow could be the most effective way to fight against leukemia.

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Using millions of years of cell evolution in fight against cancer

Researchers are focusing on ways to fight cancer by attacking defective genes before they are able to make proteins. They are studying micro RNAs (miRNAs), a class of small RNAs that interact with messenger RNAs (mRNAs) that have been linked to a number of diseases, including cancer. Scientists placed two different miRNAs (MiR-7 and MiR-128) into ovarian cancer cells and watched how they affected the gene system.

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The Genetic Map Of The Jewish Diasporas Defined By New Genetic Study

A new genetic analysis focusing on Jews from North Africa has provided an overall genetic map of the Jewish Diasporas. The findings support the historical record of Middle Eastern Jews settling in North Africa during Classical Antiquity, proselytizing and marrying local populations, and, in the process, forming distinct populations that stayed largely intact for more than 2,000 years…

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Glucose Deprivation Activates Feedback Loop That Kills Cancer Cells

Compared to normal cells, cancer cells have a prodigious appetite for glucose, the result of a shift in cell metabolism known as aerobic glycolysis or the “Warburg effect.” Researchers focusing on this effect as a possible target for cancer therapies have examined how biochemical signals present in cancer cells regulate the altered metabolic state…

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BioChip may make diagnosis of leukemia and HIV faster, cheaper

Inexpensive, portable devices that can rapidly screen cells for leukemia or HIV may soon be possible thanks to a chip that can produce three-dimensional focusing of a stream of cells, according to researchers.

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"Spaghetti Models" Of Cancer Progression Built To Fight Cancer

Using mathematical models, researchers in the Integrated Mathematical Oncology (IMO) program at Moffitt Cancer Center are focusing their research on the interaction between the tumor and its microenvironment and the “selective forces” in that microenvironment that play a role in the growth and evolution of cancer. According to Alexander R. A. Anderson, Ph.D…

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Breakthrough discovery unveils master switches in colon cancer

Researchers have identified a new mechanism by which colon cancer develops. By focusing on segments of DNA located between genes, or so-called “junk DNA,” the team has discovered a set of master switches, i.e., gene enhancer elements, that turn “on and off” key genes whose altered expression is defining for colon cancers.

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