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| Scientists discover how deadly skin cancer spreads into other parts of the body Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:59 AM PST ( Virginia Commonwealth University ) After recently announcing success in eliminating melanoma metastasis in laboratory experiments, scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have made another important discovery in understanding the process by which the gene mda-9/syntenin contributes to metastasis in melanoma (the spread of skin cancer) and possibly a variety of other ... Jayden Lamb's Happy Spirit Kept Alive Through Strangers' Donations Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:57 AM PST Jayden, 8, died of cancer last November, but friends and and others remember him through their giving Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Praises President Obama For Signing The Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act into Law prnewswire.com Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:56 AM PST MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Â President Barack Obama made history in the fight against pancreatic cancer by signing the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act into law last night. Â The ... New strategies needed to encourage male cancer survivors to consider future fertility Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:54 AM PST ( University of Sheffield ) New strategies are needed to encourage men who have banked sperm prior to cancer treatment to engage with ongoing fertility monitoring programs, researchers from the University of Sheffield have found. CDC: Women getting unneeded Paps post-hysterectomy Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:52 AM PST Many women don't need to be screened for cervical cancer after a hysterectomy, but a new study says most get the test anyway. Revolutionary techniques could help harness patients' own immune cells to fight disease Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:52 AM PST ( Cell Press ) Researchers reporting in two separate papers in the Jan. 4 issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Stem Cell used stem cell technology to successfully regenerate patients' immune cells, creating large numbers that were long-lived and could recognize their specified targets: HIV-infected cells in one case and cancer cells in the other. The findings could help in the development of ... Japanese team creates cancer-specific killer T cells from induced pluripotent stem cells Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:52 AM PST ( RIKEN ) Researchers from the RIKEN Research Centre for Allergy and Immunology in Japan report today that they have succeeded for the first time in creating cancer-specific, immune system cells called killer T lymphocytes, from induced pluripotent stem cells. This Week in Nature Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:49 AM PST In Nature Genetics , two independent teams report on the use of genome-wide association analyses to offer clues to the biology of gout and colorectal cancer, respectively. Calling for a Change Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:49 AM PST In a Viewpoint column in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association , Eric Topol, Kelly Bethel, and Laura Goetz of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and the Scripps Clinic say that pathologists must change the way they handle tissue samples in order to take full advantage of genomic sequencing in cancer care. Factor May Determine Breast Cancer Therapy Thu, 03 Jan, 2013 09:46 AM PST Australian scientists say a "transcription factor" causes breast cancer to develop an aggressive subtype that isn't sensitive to estrogen. Chris Ormandy of Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research said transcription factors were molecules that switched genes on or off. In this case, the transcription factor known as ELF5 inhibited sensitivity to estrogen very early in the life of a breast ... | |
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