Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that cancer cells can 'bag up and bin' a toxic protein to cheat death - revealing a new Achilles heel in cancer cells that could be targeted for treatment, reveals research in
Nature Cell Biology yesterday, 4 December.
5 Dec 2011 12:47R2 from each sale of Kauai's new Upbeet Berry Smoothie, which promotes healthy skin from the inside out, will go to Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA), as part of both organisations' bid to make more South Africans be good to their skin this summer.
5 Dec 2011 11:15[Marika Sboros] If ever you even vaguely think life is fair, spare a thought for nonsmokers around the globe who get lung cancer. I've known a few, and have railed against their fate as vociferously as they must have done at times.
30 Nov 2011 13:58 Many more lung cancer patients would survive for longer if they had surgery to remove the disease, according to research published in the European Journal of Cancer.
17 Nov 2011 16:57
[Michael Greenwood] An international consortium of researchers, including members from the Yale School of Public Health, has narrowed the search for the gene or genes associated with inherited susceptibility to a malignant brain cancer to a region on chromosome 17.
16 Nov 2011 17:19The Sydney Medical School's Associate Dean of Research, Professor Graham Mann, is one of the leaders of a project that has found some 200,000 Australians carry a mutant gene that increases their melanoma risk.
16 Nov 2011 16:53Stem cell techniques have been used in the lab as a new way of priming the body's own immune cells to attack cancer, in a proof-of-principle study by Oxford University scientists.
11 Nov 2011 08:51A class of drugs used to treat breast cancers which overproduce a protein called HER2 could also treat other types of cancer - particularly head and neck cancers, according to research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool this week.
11 Nov 2011 08:43
Irish company EirGen Pharma today, 9 November, announced a significant partnership agreement with South African pharmaceuticals company, Equity Pharmaceuticals, to develop and commercially supply five oncology products from its facility in Waterford, Ireland. EirGen is a speciality pharmaceutical company focusing on the development and supply of niche highly potent drugs typically used in cancer treatment.
9 Nov 2011 18:00PARIS, FRANCE: Doctors on Wednesday, 9 November, said they had used a wide-ranging genetic test for mutations in cancer cells to help fine-tune treatment for patients with lung tumours.
9 Nov 2011 16:03
A multi-centre phase II clinical trial for a pioneering new surgical technique has started in the UK, jointly funded by
Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust and Cancer Research UK.
3 Nov 2011 09:17Cancer Research UK's Drug Development Office has opened a trial to assess a new drug to treat a range of cancer types. The drug works by reducing the flow of blood to tumours and potentially starving them of the blood supply that they need to survive.
3 Nov 2011 08:26Taking
the Pill for 10 years can reduce the risk of
ovarian cancer by almost half (45%), new research part-funded by Cancer Research UK shows.
31 Oct 2011 13:55A large study to investigate causes of common cancers in India is being carried out through a collaboration between Oxford University in the UK and 12 leading cancer centres in India.
26 Oct 2011 15:52
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