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Boosting Immune 'Killer Cells,' Increases Antibody Effectiveness Against Cancer
April 18, 2007 Researchers have devised a novel method to expand the number of immune system "natural killer (NK)" cells from blood cells outside the body. They have found that adding such cells to anti-cancer ... > full story -
Risk Of Second Malignant Neoplasms After Childhood Leukemia And Lymphoma
April 16, 2007 Every day, people make assumptions, educated and not, about their risk for developing cancer. For many, the risk of developing a secondary cancer after an earlier illness rests uncomfortably in the ... > full story -
Finnish Scientists Discover New Approach To Treat Virus-Induced Lymphomas
March 15, 2007 Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is a human tumor virus and an etiological agent for Kaposi's sarcoma and primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). PELs are aggressive lymphomas with reported median ... > full story -
Researchers Wake Up Viruses Inside Tumors To Image And Then Destroy Cancers
March 1, 2007 Researchers have found a way to activate Epstein-Barr viruses inside tumors as a way to identify patients whose infection can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors. They say this strategy ... > full story -
Novel Test Identifies Leukemia Patients Likely To Respond To New Therapy
February 20, 2007 Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a genetic signature identifying cases of lymphoma that are uniquely susceptible to a newly developed ... > full story -
Study Analyzes Heart Attack Mortality Risk Associated With Hodgkin Disease Treatments
February 7, 2007 Doctors have long known that patients treated for Hodgkin disease are at an increased risk for heart attacks. In the February 7 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers ... > full story -
Study Examines Second Cancer Risk Among Hairy Cell Leukemia Survivors
February 7, 2007 Survivors of a rare cancer called hairy cell leukemia are at an increased risk of Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and thyroid cancer, and at an increased risk of death from leukemia and ... > full story -
Tumor Cells Evade Death Through Autophagy
January 18, 2007 Autophagy is a cellular process that enables cells to turnover their contents, something that they do frequently. Autophagy is initiated in tumor cells by chemotherapy and radiation, but it is not ... > full story -
Kidney Transplantation Linked With Increased Risk Of Various Cancers
December 19, 2006 Following kidney transplantation, some recipients may face a three-fold increased risk of certain cancer types, according to a study in the Dec. 20 issue of ... > full story -
Certain Types Of Cancer Becoming More Common, While Rates Of Others Decreasing
December 16, 2006 Nation-wide statistics indicate that while some types of cancer are occurring less frequently, the rates of others are still surging upward. According to a new study published in Annals of the New ... > full story
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