Breast Cancer Drugs from Pfizer and L...

April 10, 2014 Written by admin

Experimental breast cancer drugs from Pfizer Inc. (PFE) and Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) slowed or halted growth of advanced tumors in studies, potentially adding a new treatment option for patients and top-selling therapies for the companies. Pfizer’s palbociclib doubled to 20.2 months the time in which patients’ advanced breast cancer didn’t [...]

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U.S. cancer death rates continue to d...

February 13, 2013 Written by admin

The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2009, shows that overall cancer death rates continued to decline in the United States among both men and women, among all major racial and ethnic groups, and for all of the most common cancer sites, including lung, colon and rectum, female breast, and prostate. However, the report [...]

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Lung cancer likely to overtake breast...

February 13, 2013 Written by admin

Lung cancer is likely to overtake breast cancer as the main cause of cancer death among European women by the middle of this decade, according to new research published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology on February 13. In the UK and Poland it has already overtaken breast cancer as the main cause of cancer deaths in women. The study by [...]

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Squeezing Breasts Can Help Fight Brea...

December 21, 2012 Written by admin

New research has found that applying physical force on one’s breasts can prevent malignant cancer cells. Researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presented their findings Monday at the Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. “People have known for centuries that physical force can [...]

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Enzyme offers new therapeutic target ...

June 22, 2012 Written by admin

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a new signal transduction pathway specifically devoted to the regulation of alternative RNA splicing, a process that allows a single gene to produce or code multiple types of protein variants. The discovery, published in the June 27, 2012 issue of Molecul [...]

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HPV Vaccine May Prevent Recurrence of...

March 28, 2012 Written by admin

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been touted as a way to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts, but a new study suggests the vaccine may also prevent women diagnosed with precancers from developing recurrences. Researchers randomly assigned more than 1,350 women diagnosed with genital warts or certain precancerous conditions to [...]

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Survival Rate of Cancer Patients in K...

February 6, 2012 Written by admin

SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ As the whole world battles against cancer, the survival rate of cancer patients in Korea has shown a great improvement. Cancer is still the number one cause of death in Korea, but about half of Korean cancer patients have, in recent times, managed to survive for more than ten years, whi [...]

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Transplant recipients have a high ris...

November 10, 2011 Written by admin

Organ transplant recipients in the United States have a high risk of developing 32 different types of cancer, according to a new study of transplant recipients which fully describes the range of malignancies that occur. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Se [...]

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Cancer survivor population over 65 to...

October 12, 2011 Written by admin

Over the next decade, the population of cancer survivors over 65 years of age will increase by approximately 42 percent. “We can expect a dramatic increase in the number of older adults who are diagnosed with or carry a history of cancer,” said Julia Rowland, Ph.D., director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship in the Division of [...]

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Tyk2 protein helps suppress the growt...

October 10, 2011 Written by admin

A possible new target for breast cancer therapy comes from the discovery that the Tyk2 protein helps suppress the growth and metastasis of breast tumors, as reported in Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Qifang Zhang and Andrew Larner, Virginia Commonwealth University (R [...]

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