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There are certain forms of parvoviruses usually causing infection in mice yet are additionally communicable for cells in humans. But humans having this virus presence are asymptomatic. Most significantly, such viral forms possess an astounding characteristic of obliterating infection-ridden tumor cells while sparing normal healthy tissues. Hence, researchers from the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ have been probing since several years if these viral forms could be employed as able weaponry for [...]
Investigators from renowned Universities have uncovered a new-fangled driving force responsible for cancer development and progression.
Their researches have spotted the manner in which scrap DNA elicits the development of cancerous cells among patients having Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Prof. Constanze Bonifer from Univ. of Leeds along with doctor Stephan Mathas from the Charité Univ. Medical School and MDC (Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine), Berlin, Germany who co-helmed the research [...]
A mere 5-minute test for elderly people of fifty-five years old could help salvage many lives from bowel cancer related fatality. Specialists believe that the singular research would be a leading advancement in tackling bowel cancer and made a call for NHS funding.
The pain-free test could effectively spot bowel cancer symptoms, thus preventing five thousand cases of the condition from advancing and cutting three thousand fatalities annually.
Prof. Wendy Atkin at the Imperial College London [...]
A novel research printed online in the peer-assessed medical journal of the ACS (American Cancer Society) has suggested that factors augmenting breast cancer risk factors in white females had lesser impact on females belonging to Spanish American race. The research suggested that investigation is required for evaluating how breast cancer risk factors vary across ethnic populaces.
Breast cancer has greater frequency of occurrence among particular racial populaces, though the true reasons why such [...]
Majority of the cases of advanced staging head and neck cancer need chemotherapy employing drug cisplatin which is an inert platinum agent that hampers cancer development.
A sizeable populace of patients fails in responding favorably to this form of treatment; however oncologists are not able to give prescription of unconventional agents as they are unaware of which patients would be responding to platinum treatment and which ones would not show any response to it. But, new-fangled study conducted [...]
Investigators of a study have reported that they are inching nearer to their goal of creating a blood test which could help in earlier and effective breast cancer diagnosis.
During the course of this latest study, researchers employed data taken from the large WHI or Women Health Initiative. They uncovered that the levels of marker EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) could shoot up in the blood samples of females before even seventeen months of their breast cancer diagnosis. Epidermal growth [...]
New-fangled study findings of a Phase I-II of trial drug MDV3100 has shown potential in being a safe and effectual treatment for prostate cancer in patients having an aggressive type of the disease, castration-resistant prostate cancer or CRPC - a hormone refractory condition.
Study outcomes demonstrate that MDV3100 could not merely shrivel tumors, but additionally lowered serum levels of PSA (prostate-specific antigen), a tumor marker. It also assisted in stabilizing the cancer which had metastasized [...]
Lately, Tennis star Martina Navratilova made a heartening revelation about her on-going fight with DCIS breast cancer type.
Having won Wimbledon Singles for 9 times, the champ expressed the reports as a tragedy with as much marring effects as that of the 9/11 attacks. After getting news of her diagnosis with breast cancer type DCIS during February, Navratilova stated that she wept inconsolably.
The over fifty year old tennis legend who has taken retirement from competitive tennis just 3 years [...]
Investigators from Canada have made a denudation of an earlier concealed path to combat leukemia and other cancerous cells. The discovery could make a positive transformation in the manner in which leukemia treatment is carried out. This novel gateway could even benefit patients with other forms of cancers.
Dr. Dindial Ramotar, a scientist at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital and lead author of the study explained the uncovering of a novel gateway that is present in human-beings which permits [...]
The Mayo Clinic campus area has been the site where testing of the latest cohort of virtual biopsy probes employed in colonoscopy are being conducted.
Researchers Michael Wallace, prof. of medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Florida (lead author) along with associates showed that it could shortly be feasible to employ such an apparatus for ascertaining if a colon polyp is benignant and not excising it for biopsy purpose. Presently, removal of all colon polyps are done at the time of colonoscopy [...]
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