bladder cancer

(Emory University) The natural compound honokiol blocks survival signals from the Ras family of genes in breast, lung and bladder cancer cells.

As a drug target, Ras is considered difficult to approach chemically.Honokiol comes from magnolia trees and has been used in Japanese and Chinese herbal medicines.

(University of Michigan Health System) Even though cigarette smoking accounts for up to half of all bladder cancer cases, few people are aware of the connection -- including more than three-quarters of patients who have bladder cancer, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Pregnancy seems to confer some protection against bladder cancer in mice, scientists have found.

Female mice that had never become pregnant had approximately 15 times as much cancer in their bladders as their counterparts that had become pregnant, according to new findings by investigators at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Their work appears online as a rapid communication in the journal Urology.

A concentrated extract of freeze dried broccoli sprouts cut development of bladder tumors in an animal model by more than half, according to a report in the March 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.