Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have been awarded a £4 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop a new breast cancer treatment.
A team at the ICR discovered drug-like compounds that can be used to block an enzyme from the PARP superfamily, leading to the death of some breast [...]
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Grant Worth £4 Million Awarded To Develop New Cancer Drug
Posted by admin on Nisan 9th, 2010
Dorm Fires: Smoke Alarms + Sprinklers + Closed Doors = Lives Saved
Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
Experimenting on a university dormitory that was scheduled to be torn down, fire researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that the correct combination of automatic fire sprinkler systems, smoke alarms and closed doors provided enough time and safe conditions for residents to escape safely and [...]
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No Comments »Comparison Of Radiographic And Pathologic Sizes Of Renal Tumors
Posted by admin on Nisan 5th, 2010
UroToday.com – The selection of appropriate candidates for partial nephrectomy, open, laparoscopic, or robotic, along with modern ablative therapies and active surveillance has been largely guided by the renal tumor sizes assessed via various imaging modalities.
Accordingly, radiographic size of tumor remains an important factor in the era of minimal invasive treatment [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 5th, 2010
In patients with early breast cancer, giving radiotherapy to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone and above the collar bone is well-tolerated, after mastectomy or breast conserving surgery, a radiation oncologist will tell delegates at the seventh European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC7) (Saturday 27 March). Women at a high [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 5th, 2010
A new, large-scale study of more than 10,000 adults found that more than one in every 200 asymptomatic people screened with CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, had clinically unsuspected malignant cancer and more than half of the cancers were located outside the colon. The findings were published in the April issue [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 5th, 2010
UroToday.com – The coagulation system is implicated in cancer proliferation, angiogenesis, host immunologic defense, and metastasis. Patients with cancer are more likely to develop thromboembolism. In the journal Cancer, Dr. Kevin Choe and colleagues report on a cohort of patients receiving radiotherapy (XRT) for prostate cancer (CaP) of which [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 5th, 2010
Early findings suggest a radiation therapy that involves numerous highly-focused and potent radiation beams provides targeted tumor control in nearly all patients, reduces treatment-related illness, and may ultimately improve survival for patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer, according to a study in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a [...]
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Study Finds The Cost Of Cancer Care Is Skyrocketing
“The cost of cancer treatment is ’skyrocketing’ – both for individual patients and the nation, a new analysis shows. From 1990 to 2008, spending on cancer care soared to more than $90 billion from $27 billion. The increase was driven by the rising costs of sophisticated new drugs, robotic surgeries and [...]