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Lupus Drugs Carry No Significant Cancer Risk for Patients, Study Suggests
January 24, 2013 People who take immunosuppressive drugs to treat lupus do not necessarily increase their cancer risk according to new research. This study addresses long-standing fears of a link between lupus ... > full story -
Discovery of New Class of Damage-Prone DNA Regions Could Lead to Better Cancer Treatments
January 24, 2013 Cancer is thought to arise from DNA damage at fragile sites in the genome. A new study reveals a new class of fragile sites that contributes to DNA alterations in a type of blood cancer called B cell ... > full story -
New Way to Kill Lymphoma Without Chemotherapy: Golden Nanoparticle Starves Cancer Cell to Death
January 21, 2013 Scientists annihilated lymphoma by depriving it of a favorite food: HDL cholesterol. Researchers developed a new golden nanoparticle that's a replica of natural HDL. Acting like a secret double ... > full story -
Scientists Seek out Cancer Cells Hiding from Treatment
January 16, 2013 Funding to improve leukemia treatment will investigate how cancer cells hide to avoid chemotherapy ... > full story -
Epigenomic Abnormalities Predict Patient Survival in Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
January 10, 2013 "Not only do we see more abnormal methylation in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients than in healthy B-cell populations, but there are three distinct subtypes of the disease in the clinic, each more ... > full story -
Cellular Fuel Gauge May Hold the Key to Restricting Cancer Growth
December 27, 2012 Researchers have discovered that a key regulator of energy metabolism in cancer cells known as the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) may play a crucial role in restricting cancer cell growth. AMPK ... > full story -
New Technique Catalogs Lymphoma-Linked Genetic Variations
December 26, 2012 As anyone familiar with the X-Men knows, mutants can be either very good or very bad — or somewhere in between. The same appears true within cancer cells, which may harbor hundreds of mutations ... > full story -
Cancer Diagnosis Later in Life Poses Significant Risk to Offspring, Study Suggests
December 20, 2012 Relatives of family members diagnosed with cancer are still at risk of the disease even if the diagnosis came at an older age, a new paper ... > full story -
Ibrutinib Has 'Unprecedented' Impact on Mantle Cell Lymphoma
December 14, 2012 An international study of ibrutinib in people with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) continues to show unprecedented and durable results with few side ... > full story -
Hard-to-Treat Myc-Driven Cancers May Be Susceptible to Drug Already Used in Clinic
December 14, 2012 Drugs that are used in the clinic to treat some forms of breast and kidney cancer and that work by inhibiting the signaling molecule mTORC1 might have utility in treating some of the more than 15 ... > full story
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