
Promising New Approach to Treatment of Lung Cancer
Researchers have developed a
new drug delivery system
that allows inhalation of
chemotherapeutic drugs to
help treat lung cancer, and
in laboratory and animal
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Cold Plasma Successful Against Brain Cancer Cells, Study Suggests
For the first time,
physicists, biologists and
physicians demonstrated the
synergistic effect of cold
atmospheric plasma - a
partly ionized gas - and
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Keeping Stem Cells Strong: RNA Molecule Protects Stem Cells During Inflammation
A team of researchers led by
biologists at the California
Institute of Technology has
found that, in mouse models,
the molecule microRNA-146 ... > full story

Scientists Uncover How Grapefruits Provide a Secret Weapon in Medical Drug Delivery
Researchers have uncovered
how to create nanoparticles
using natural lipids derived
from grapefruit, and have
discovered how to use them
... > full story
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Overcoming Resistance to Anti-Cancer Drugs by Targeting Cell 'Powerhouses'
May 22, 2013 Re-routing anti-cancer drugs to the "power plants" that make energy to keep cells alive is a promising but long-neglected approach to preventing emergence of the drug-resistant forms of cancer -- ... > full story -
Study Details Genes That Control Whether Tumors Adapt or Die When Faced With P53 Activating Drugs
May 22, 2013 When turned on, the gene p53 turns off cancer. However, when existing drugs boost p53, only a few tumors die -- the rest resist the challenge. A new study shows how: tumors that live even in the face ... > full story -
Inexpensive, Accurate Way to Detect Prostate Cancer: At-Home Urine Tests
May 22, 2013 Early screening for prostate cancer could become as easy for men as personal pregnancy testing is for women, thanks to new ... > full story -
DNA Damage: The Dark Side of Respiration
May 22, 2013 Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers now report how byproducts of respiration cause mispairing ... > full story -
Changing Cancer's Environment to Halt Its Spread
May 21, 2013 By studying the roles two proteins, thrombospondin-1 and prosaposin, play in discouraging cancer metastasis, scientists have identified a five-amino acid fragment of prosaposin that significantly ... > full story -
Small Cancer Risk Following CT Scans in Childhood and Adolescence Confirmed
May 21, 2013 Young people who undergo CT scans are 24 percent more likely to develop cancer compared with those who do not, a study published today on bmj.com suggests. However the absolute excess for all cancers ... > full story -
H. Pylori, Smoking Trends, and Gastric Cancer in US Men
May 21, 2013 Trends in Helicobacter pylori and smoking explain a significant proportion of the decline of intestinal-type noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma incidence in US men between 1978 and 2008, and are ... > full story -
Low Radiation Scans Help Identify Cancer in Earliest Stages
May 21, 2013 A study of veterans at high risk for developing lung cancer shows that low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can be highly effective in helping clinicians spot tiny lung nodules which, in a small ... > full story -
Radioactive Nanoparticles Target Cancer Cells
May 21, 2013 Researchers have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the ... > full story -
Poliovirus Vaccine Trial Shows Early Promise for Recurrent Glioblastoma
May 21, 2013 An attack on glioblastoma brain tumor cells that uses a modified poliovirus is showing encouraging results in an early study to establish the proper dose ... > full story
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