How do you come up with the topics for your column? someone asked me last week. Sometimes it's just what is on my heart and mind, I answered. Like today; one hour before deadline and I am still thinking about fat. Not a particularly nice name in our culture. We blame it for much of our misery...tight clothes, clogged arteries and extra pounds.
Scientists discuss in 'Insulin-like growth factor-I receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor cyclolignan picropodophyllin inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis in multidrug resistant osteosarcoma cell lines' new findings in osteosarcoma. According to a study from the United States, Insulin-like growth factor-I receptor (IGF-IR) is an important mediator of tumor cell survival and shows prognostic significance in sarcoma.
Results from a study of more than 90,000 Italian women published by the Lancet Oncology found that testing for high-risk types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA is significantly more effective in preventing invasive cervical cancer than cytology (Pap testing) alone. The trial used QIAGEN's digene HPV Test (also known as the digene HC2 HPV DNA Test), which detects the high- risk types of HPV that can cause cervical cancer.
In this recently published article, scientists in Beer Sheva, Israel conducted a study To look for an association between the measles virus and endometrial carcinoma, the most frequent cancer of the female genital tract in our area. Thirty- six of 49 patients with endometrial carcinoma were studied to detect fingerprints of the measles virus.
Eliminating cancer stem cells (CSCs) within a tumor could hold the key to successful treatments for ovarian cancer, which has been notoriously difficult to detect and treat, according to new findings published this week in the journal Oncogene by Yale School of Medicine researchers.
Current study results from the report, 'Using surface imaging and visual coaching to improve the reproducibility and stability of deep- inspiration breath hold for left-breast-cancer radiotherapy,' have been published. Late cardiac complications may arise after left-breast radiation therapy.
Brain metastases affect 25%-30% of women with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive metastatic breast cancer and are associated with a high burden of disease and poor prognosis. A 55-year-old woman presented with HER2-positive, hormone receptor-positive, locally advanced infiltrating ductal carcinoma, researchers in the United States report.
Most breast cancer surgeons' practices do not follow standards associated with the best quality of care, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive
New research, 'Male breast cancer: a population- based comparison with female breast cancer,' is the subject of a report. Because of its rarity, male breast cancer is often compared with female breast cancer.
In this recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study To assess toxicities, functional outcomes, and health-related quality of life associated with concurrent. chemoradiation therapy (CRT) in patients with head and neck cancer. Prospective and retrospective outcomes study Setting: Tertiary care institution.
