Inherited melanoma risk: What you do know?
June 28th, 2008
Salt Lake CityWhen people know the results of genetic tests confirming they have inherited an increased risk of developing melanoma, they follow skin cancer screening recommendations more proactivelymuch like those who have already been diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease, as per results of a study completed at the University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute. and reported in the recent issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
Tests for mutations in the CDKN2A gene can reveal a reason that melanomas “run” in families.
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The invasion and spread of cancer cells to other parts of the body, known as metastasis, is a principal cause of death in patients diagnosed with breast cancer. Eventhough patients with early stage, small, breast tumours have an excellent short term prognosis, more than 15 to 20 per cent of them will eventually develop distant metastases, and die from the disease.
Cytheris SA, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on research and development of new therapies for immune modulation, today announced the publication of data from a phase 1 dose escalation study evaluating the effects of IL-7 therapy on human lymphocytes in subjects with non-hematologic, non-lymphoid cancer refractory to standard therapy.
Physician experts at the British Association of Urological Surgeons’ (BAUS) annual meeting this week heard how discussions with NICE have opened the way for patients with prostate cancer to have continued access to cryotherapy - a promising therapy threatened by earlier NICE guidance published in February.
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - CG0070 is a replication-competent adenovirus modified to replicate preferentially in retinoblastoma pathway-defective cancers and to express granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).
It may sound like the plot of a medical drama, but this approach to fighting cancer is real. Scientists say they may someday be able to battle brain cancer, while using a virus to do it. Early results from the lab are promising.
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology’s Research Evaluation Committee has announced the recipients of several awards and grants that are funded by the Radiation Oncology Institute (formerly the ASTRO Education and Development Fund) and distributed each year as part of the organization’s overall effort to prevent, treat and cure malignancies.
Many of us remember the 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner. In brief, the main character becomes convinced that a baseball field must be built on his failing farmland. Another character assures him that if he builds it, “they” will come. And come they did, not only within the storyline of the movie but, as a result of the movie’s popularity, to the real field in Dyersville, IA. After some contention between the 2 adjacent landowners, the field created for the film was restored, attracting up to 50,000 visitors each year.
Successful bariatric surgery allows morbidly obese patients to lose up to 70 percent of their excess weight and to maintain weight loss. The latest study by Dr. Nicolas Christou of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University shows that this surgery also decreases the risk of developing cancer by up to 80 percent. Dr. Christou presented his preliminary results yesterday at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.
PRESENTATIONS The mission of the Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to promote and support: (1) cancer- related basic, translational, and clinical research in imaging sciences and technology; and (2) integration and application of these imaging discoveries and developments to the understanding of cancer biology and to the clinical management of cancer and cancer risk. In short, the goals are to use cancer imaging to visualize problems and direct solutions.