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RBC commemorates 100 years in Caribbean with major contributions to children's cancer treatment and clean water

RBC commemorates 100 years in Caribbean with major contributions to children's cancer treatment and clean water

   RBC plans to establish a Caribbean Children's Cancer Fund, which will be funded with US$1 million during the next five years, with an initial contribution of US$200,000.

Posted : Tue, Sep 16, 2008

Category : World-Business / Business-Finance News

Dense Tissue Promotes Aggressive Cancers

Dense Tissue Promotes Aggressive Cancers

   New research may explain why breast cancer tends to be more aggressive in women with denser breast tissue.

Posted : Sat, Aug 23, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Key to Treating Cancer May Be Finding its Original Cell

Key to Treating Cancer May Be Finding its Original Cell

   Cancer biologists are turning their attention to the normal cells that give rise to cancers, to learn more about how tumor growth might be stopped at the earliest opportunity.

Posted : Tue, Aug 12, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

First step towards switching off breast cancer and leukaemia

First step towards switching off breast cancer and leukaemia

   Australian scientists have identified a way to 'switch off' a molecule, a key player in the molecular processes that trigger breast cancer and certain forms of leukaemia.

Posted : Fri, Aug 08, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Exposure to Agent Orange linked to prostate cancer in Vietnam veterans

Exposure to Agent Orange linked to prostate cancer in Vietnam veterans

   UC Davis Cancer Center physicians today released results of research showing that Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange have greatly increased risks of prostate cancer and even greater risks of getting the most aggressive form of the disease as compared to those who were not exposed.

Posted : Wed, Aug 06, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Prostate Cancer Vaccines More Effective With Hormone Therapy

Prostate Cancer Vaccines More Effective With Hormone Therapy

   Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according to recent data published in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Posted : Sun, Jul 13, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Science teachers join labs for summer at Fred Hutchinson

Science teachers join labs for summer at Fred Hutchinson

   About 30 science teachers from Washington — plus two from Singapore and one from Australia — are spending part of their vacation at summer school working beside scientists in research laboratories at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and several other partner sites throughout Seattle.

Posted : Fri, Jul 11, 2008

Category : Technology / Industry News

Researchers Identify Cancer Preventive Properties in Common Vitamin Supplement

Researchers Identify Cancer Preventive Properties in Common Vitamin Supplement

   Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer, suggesting a potential role for the agent in breast cancer prevention.

Posted : Tue, Jul 08, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Gene Therapy Increases Survival for End-Stage Head and Neck Cancer

Gene Therapy Increases Survival for End-Stage Head and Neck Cancer

   Drug that restores tumor-suppressor gene expression originated at M. D. Anderson.

Posted : Fri, May 30, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Mobile Phones: More Dangerous Than Smoking

Mobile Phones: More Dangerous Than Smoking

   Award winning Neurosurgeon warns of huge rise in tumors from cell hones and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation.

Posted : Wed, May 28, 2008

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

M. D. Anderson Nurse Addresses Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors

M. D. Anderson Nurse Addresses Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors

   Nurse-Administered Prevention and Management Strategies Can Decrease Incidence of Lymphedema and Improve Quality of Life in Patients .

Posted : Tue, May 20, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

MIT researchers find early treatment of stomach infection may prevent cancer

MIT researchers find early treatment of stomach infection may prevent cancer

   Prompt treatment of a microbe that causes stomach ulcers and other ailments can reverse damage to the lining of the stomach and ultimately prevent one of the most lethal forms of cancer from developing there, MIT researchers have concluded.

Posted : Fri, May 02, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Aging: How Growing Older Affects Cancer Risk and Outcomes

Aging: How Growing Older Affects Cancer Risk and Outcomes

   As our population ages and senior citizens become a larger demographic, cancer researchers are focusing on the links between aging and cancer.

Posted : Fri, Apr 18, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Winners announced for two awards that bring underrepresented scientists to major cancer research meeting

Winners announced for two awards that bring underrepresented scientists to major cancer research meeting

   Minorities in Cancer Research (MICR), a 3,000-member group within the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), has selected the winners of two scholar awards for scientists working in underrepresented areas of the cancer research community.

Posted : Tue, Mar 18, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

MIT breaks ground for Koch Institute

MIT breaks ground for Koch Institute

   MIT broke ground on Friday for the new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a facility that its director, Tyler Jacks, said will usher in "the next generation in cancer research"

Posted : Mon, Mar 10, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

MIT researchers demonstrate protective role of microRNA

MIT researchers demonstrate protective role of microRNA

   Snippets of genetic material that have been linked to cancer also play a critical role in normal embryonic development in mice, according to a new paper from MIT cancer biologists.

Posted : Mon, Mar 10, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

U-M researchers ID promising new cancer drug

U-M researchers ID promising new cancer drug

   Researchers have long searched for a novel cancer drug that activates a certain protein to kill tumor cells. But finding a drug that kills the cancer without causing damage to normal cells has stymied researchers.

Posted : Tue, Mar 04, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

New blood marker may predict prostate cancer spread

New blood marker may predict prostate cancer spread

   Information could lead to more accurate prediction of cancer metastasis thereby improving patient management.

Posted : Sun, Mar 02, 2008

Category : Science / Health News

Yale Scientists Create Artificial "Cells" that Boost the Immune Response to Cancer

Yale Scientists Create Artificial "Cells" that Boost the Immune Response to Cancer

   Using artificial cell-like particles, Yale biomedical engineers have devised a rapid and efficient way to produce a 45-fold enhancement of T cell activation and expansion.

Posted : Sat, Mar 01, 2008

Category : Science / Environment News

The Hormel Institute Buys IBM Supercomputer As it Expands Role, Scope of Research

The Hormel Institute Buys IBM Supercomputer As it Expands Role, Scope of Research

   The Hormel Institute, a medical research unit of the University of Minnesota, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the Institute will become the first research laboratory in the state to employ the world's most powerful supercomputer design, the IBM Blue Gene.

Posted : Fri, Feb 08, 2008

Category : Technology / Industry News
 
 
 
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