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Tailored Treatments: Promising Designer Drug Provides New Insight Into Cancer Biology
November 13, 2006 Scientists are making progress toward unraveling the molecular mysteries that underlie cancer progression and treatment resistance. Two studies in the November 2006 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, ... > full story -
Deficiency In Exposure To Sunlight Linked To Ovarian Cancer
November 2, 2006 Using newly available data on worldwide cancer incidence, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD have shown a clear association between deficiency in exposure to sunlight, specifically ... > full story -
Women Testing Negative For Familial Breast Cancer Gene Can Still Be At Increased Risk
October 31, 2006 Women testing negative for the two inherited breast cancer genes are still at increased risk of developing the disease, suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Medical ... > full story -
Impaired Gene Helps Nonsmall-Cell Lung Cancer Resist Drug
October 1, 2006 Lung cancer cells with a defective version of a potential tumor suppressor gene are highly resistant to attack by a platinum-based drug commonly used to treat the disease, researchers at the ... > full story -
Early Results Indicate Radiofreqency Ablation Useful In Treating Ovarian Cancer Metastasis
September 29, 2006 Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation, a procedure that uses a high frequency electric current to kill tumor cells, is effective in achieving local control in selected patients with metastasis from ... > full story -
Preventive Ovary Removal Linked To Early Death In Younger Women, Mayo Clinic Discovers
September 15, 2006 Death rates rise when women under 45 years old undergo bilateral ovariectomy -- surgical removal of both ovaries -- and do not receive proper hormone replacement therapy, according to a new Mayo ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Completely Suppresses Ovarian Cancer Growth In Animal Model
September 1, 2006 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers have used gene therapy to either completely abolish or significantly inhibit tumor progression in a mouse model of ovarian cancer. The ... > full story -
Obesity Leads To More Aggressive Ovarian Cancer, Research Shows
August 28, 2006 Whether or not a woman is obese will likely affect her outcome once she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The study, published online ... > full story -
Researchers Explore Nanotechnology As Diagnostic And Treatment Tool For Ovarian Cancer
August 16, 2006 At Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, researchers believe nanotechnology can lead to strikingly new ways to diagnosis and treat ovarian cancer. In a unique collaboration with Argonne National ... > full story -
Fatty Nano Spheres Loaded With SiRNA Shrink Ovarian Cancer Tumors In Preclinical Trial
August 16, 2006 University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers package short interfering RNA in a liposome to penetrate cells, shutting down a protein that helps ovarian cancer survive and spread. ... > full story
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