WASHINGTON, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) hailed the introduction of legislation that creates the first ever multi-agency, comprehensive program targeted at lung cancer and authorizes $75 million to start the first phase of the five year program to reduce lung cancer mortality.
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Medicine has moved a little bit closer to the era of tailor-made therapys, based on the unique genetic profiles of individual patients, as per recent research conducted by Dr Rima Rozen of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and McGill University. Her study, published June 18 in the journal Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, shows how minor genetic differences between individuals alter the way a common drug affects the body.
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A biomedical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is using a concept called “grid computing” to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer.
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A set of promising new anticancer agents could have unforeseen risks in individuals with heart disease, suggests research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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Higher Coffee Consumption Linked to Lower Liver Cancer Risk. Liver Cancer is the Third Most Common Global Cause of Cancer Death.A new large, prospective population-based study confirms an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and liver cancer risk. The study also observed that higher levels of gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) in the blood were linked to an increased risk of developing the disease. These findings appear in the recent issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).
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Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report they have blocked the development of prostate tumors in cancer-prone mice by knocking out a molecular unit they describe as a “powerhouse” that drives runaway cell growth.
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LIVONIA, LA (WAFB) - People living in Livonia and Fordoche say they’re noticing a lot of their neighbors are being diagnosed with cancer. Now, they want to know if they are at risk. One Livonia woman is even keeping a list of neighbors who have died from cancer.
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A study published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology demonstrates how sophisticated mathematical modeling has encouraged the development of an optimally-timed vaccine for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
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UroToday.com - In the online version of Cancer, Dr. Marc Dall’Era and colleagues at UCSF report on their experience with active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer (CaP). Active surveillance was offered to men with Gleason score <6, PSA <10ng/ml, no Gleason grade 4 or 5 cancer, less than 33% of biopsy cores involved, and clinical T1/T2a tumors.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jun 18 - African Americans with HIV infection are significantly more likely to encounter end-stage renal disease than are their white counterparts, researchers report in the June 1st issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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