cancer treatment

(University of Minnesota) A University of Minnesota-led research team has proposed a mechanism for the control of whether embryonic stem cells continue to proliferate and stay stem cells, or differentiate into adult cells like brain, liver or skin.

The work has implications in two areas. In cancer treatment, it is desirable to inhibit cell proliferation.

Innovative winners of an HHS public data and cancer challenge have created health IT applications that use public data and existing technology to help patients and health care professionals prevent, detect, diagnose and treat cancer.

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) A strategy for inhibiting a protein that is associated with the spread of cancer has won for a Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ph.D. student in chemistry one of this year's Kaye Innovation Awards at the university.

(MedPage Today) -- The success of imatinib in cancer treatment could spill over to treating tuberculosis. Also in Lab Notes this week, designer peptides for hypertension and sugar for urinary tract infections.

(INRS) Measles virus is perhaps the most contagious virus in the world, affecting 10 million children worldwide each year and accounting for 120,000 deaths.

An article published in the Nov. 2, 2011 issue of Nature explains why this virus spreads so rapidly. The discovery opens up promising new avenues in cancer treatment.

(MedPage Today) -- Laryngeal cancer treatment has shifted toward primary surgery for early-stage cases and away from it in advanced cases, with mixed effects on survival, a national analysis found.

NEW DELHI (AP) -- In a case that could affect India's role as drug provider to the developing world, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the government had the right to deny a patent to Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG for its lifesaving cancer treatment Gleevec....

All patients undergoing cancer treatment should be told to do 150 minutes of physical exercise every week, says a report by Macmillan Cancer Support.

(City of Hope) City of Hope researchers participated in more than 50 studies on improvements to cancer treatment, patient care and clinical trials to be presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, running from June 3-7.

(Mayo Clinic) Flaxseed provides no benefit in easing hot flashes among breast cancer patients and postmenopausal women, according to a Mayo Clinic and North Central Cancer Treatment Group study.