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New Tumour Killer Developed By Scientists

By on Friday, May 24th, 2013 | No Comments

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Lund University, Sweden, have bioengineered a novel molecule which has been proven to successfully kill tumour cells. This molecule is based on a natural protein present in human breast milk, which has been found to have strong and wide-ranging tumour killing properties when bound to certain lipids…

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New Genetic Sequencing Lab Creates "Tipping Point" For Personalised Cancer Care In UK

By on Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 | No Comments

A new genetic profiling laboratory that will pioneer a quick and cost-effective new tumour test will give doctors a better chance of identifying the right treatment for UK cancer patients and increase access to clinical trials for the latest therapies…

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In Patients With Head And Neck Cancers, New Radiotherapy Approach Reduces Symptoms Of Dry Mouth

By on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 | No Comments

Researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible to reduce the distressing symptoms of dry mouth in patients treated with radiotherapy for head and neck cancers if the radiation dose to a salivary gland (called the submandibular gland) on the opposite side to the tumour is kept to the minimum…

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Additional role for Abiraterone in blocking tumour growth in castration resistant prostate cancer

By on Sunday, March 17th, 2013 | No Comments

As part of an EU-supported IMI-PREDECT consortium (www.predect.eu), a Dutch study showed that anti-androgenic properties of the drug abiraterone may provide an additional mechanism of action in blocking tumour growth of castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

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Tumours Deliberately Create Conditions That Inhibit Body’s Best Immune Response So Cancer Can Progress

By on Thursday, March 7th, 2013 | No Comments

New research in the Journal of Clinical Investigation reveals that tumours in melanoma patients deliberately create conditions that knock out the body’s ‘premier’ immune defence and instead attract a weaker immune response unable to kill off the tumour’s cancerous cells…

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CRUK | Health | Oestrogen Patches Could Offer a New Treatment for Prostate Cancer

By on Monday, March 4th, 2013 | No Comments

Patches giving oestrogen through the skin could be an easy and safe alternative to the hormone therapies used to treat prostate cancer, according to new research* published in the Lancet Oncology, today (Monday). The Cancer Research UK funded study found that oestrogen patches, usually used to treat menopause symptoms in women, reduced levels of testosterone in men to a similar extent as the current hormone treatment, LHRHa injections. Many prostate cancers need the male hormone testosterone to grow. Using drugs to reduce testosterone in advanced stages of the disease can shrink the tumour or slow growth. See the press release here: www.cancerresearchuk.org

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Identification Of New Type Of Gene That Regulates Tumor Suppressor PTEN

By on Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 | No Comments

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a new so-called pseudogene that regulates the tumour-suppressing PTEN gene. They hope that this pseudogene will be able to control PTEN to reverse the tumour process, make the cancer tumour more sensitive to chemotherapy and to prevent the development of resistance…

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Novel Designed Molecules Could Stop Colon Cancer Metastasis

By on Friday, February 15th, 2013 | No Comments

A Basque research consortium has managed to stop the development of colon cancer and its liver metastasis in an experimental model using mice. This breakthrough, which could open new avenues for the future treatment of these pathologies, has been achieved by creating molecules that interfere with the tumour cells adhering to other cells in the body…

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Tumour Blood Vessels Prevent The Spread Of Cancer Cells

By on Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 | No Comments

A lack of the protein endoglin in the blood vessels of tumour-bearing mice enables the spread of daughter tumours, according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University, Sweden, in a study published in the scientific periodical The Journal of Experimental Medicine…

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Genetic screening in Metro Vancouver helps target lung cancer treatment

By on Thursday, February 7th, 2013 | No Comments

A high proportion of Asian women with lung cancer who have never smoked carry a particular genetic makeup that drives tumour growth yet also responds to a line of drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

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