Spate of cyanide suicides sparks safety review
MSNBC Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:58 AM PST
A prominent cancer research center is reviewing how it handles and tracks lab chemicals after a worker there apparently committed suicide using cyanide. |
Nanoparticles Aid Drug Delivery
Medical News Today Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:50 AM PST
Over time researchers have been able to show that medicine designed at nanoscale offers unprecedented opportunities for targeted treatment of serious diseases such as cancer. However, now research also shows that the body's immune system plays a significant part in the drug delivery process. "Researchers today are able tp encapsulate medicine in nanoparticles the size of viruses. The ... |
Many Deaths From Colorectal Cancer Are Preventable
Medical News Today Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:50 AM PST
A new report from the American Cancer Society says a large proportion of the 141,000 cases and 49,000 deaths from colorectal cancer expected in the United States this year could be prevented by increasing the use of established screening tests and by applying existing knowledge about colorectal cancer prevention. The report, Colorectal Cancer Facts & Figures 2011-2013, released during National ... |
Two-Pronged Approach Brings Hope For Bowel Cancer Treatment
Medical News Today Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:49 AM PST
Cancer Research UK-funded scientists have discovered that blocking two cell DNA repair routes at once could provide a completely new way to treat bowel cancer and potentially other cancers, according to research published in Cancer Research. The team at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) blocked the action of a protein called PINK1 in bowel cancer cells in the laboratory. PINK1 helps protect ... |
Exercise Cuts Risk Of Potentially Cancerous Bowel Polyps By A Third
Medical News Today Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:49 AM PST
People with an active lifestyle are up to three times less likely to develop large or advanced polyps in the bowel - which can develop into bowel cancer - according to a new analysis published in the British Journal of Cancer yesterday (Wednesday). Scientists based at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis pooled data from all 20 studies that have previously looked at this ... |
Retired firefighter John 'Superman' Tripodi, 61, dies of cancer
Santa Cruz Sentinel Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:47 AM PST
SANTA CRUZ -- They called John Tripodi "Superman," and nowhere was that moniker more fitting than in his courageous fight against cancer, all the while speaking with other firefighters about the importance of monitoring their own health to avoid the same fate. |
World first artificial bronchus graft in France
PhysOrg Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:47 AM PST
An articifial bronchus was successfully grafted onto a 78-year-old patient with lung cancer, a world first that avoided the complete removal of the lung, medical authorities announced here. |
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