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Researchers offer critical new information about head and neck squamous cell cancer

Head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) ranks among the top ten most prevalent cancers in the United States. Despite its prevalence, little is known about how this cancer develops and spreads. However, in a paper published in the January 29, 2015 edition of Nature, researchers offer critical new information about head and neck cancers.

4 Feb 2015

ESMO highlights collaborative efforts to improve access to cancer medicines

On World Cancer Day 2015, ESMO acknowledges patient's right to access treatment and highlights collaborative efforts towards improving access for all.

4 Feb 2015

BioMed Realty Trust expands footprint in Seattle's core innovation district of South Lake Union

BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. today announced that it is under contract to acquire the 307 Westlake Avenue North building in the heart of the burgeoning South Lake Union life science market of Seattle, Washington for approximately $90 million.

4 Feb 2015

MGH, MIT researchers reveal how the brain controls different sleep states

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have added another piece to the complex puzzle of how the brain controls one of the most essential functions - sleep.

4 Feb 2015

Anti-viral immune cells could inhibit bone marrow transplant infections caused by CMV

Bone marrow transplantation is a life-saving therapy for patients with blood cancers like leukemia or lymphoma. However, the depletion of the patient's immune system prior to transplantation can put patients at risk of for an infection by a virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV) that can be life threatening in these immune-compromised individuals.

4 Feb 2015

One in four nonsmokers still exposed to secondhand smoke, shows CDC report

Although secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in the United States dropped by half between 1999 to 2000 and 2011 to 2012, one in four nonsmokers -- 58 million people -- are still exposed to SHS, according to a new Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

4 Feb 2015

New app for clinical detection of skin cancer launched on World Cancer Day

On World Cancer Day 2015, general practitioners, physicians and dermatologists in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia are being asked for their feedback during the advanced trial phase of a new, free app that has the potential to play a vital role in the clinical detection of skin cancer.

4 Feb 2015

New study identifies three genes that enable glioblastoma to recur, progress after radiation therapy

A new study identifies three genes that together enable a lethal form of brain cancer to recur and progress after radiation therapy.

4 Feb 2015

Clusters of gene-blocking microRNAs can limit spread of cancer

Cancers that have spread throughout the body, a process known as metastasis, are difficult, often impossible, to control. They are the leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

4 Feb 2015

Oncology experts study use of fertility-sparing cancer treatments

While families around the world delay childbearing to later in life, cancer diagnoses are affecting people ever earlier in life. When these lifestyle trends collide, we see an increasing number of young women rendered infertile by cancer or cancer treatments.

4 Feb 2015

Class-action lawsuit filed against Health Net for misrepresenting physician and hospital networks

In advance of a California legislative hearing on health care "costs" not scheduled to include testimony from consumers, consumer advocates will discuss the real financial threat patients face in a class-action lawsuit against Health Net for misrepresenting their physician and hospital networks.

4 Feb 2015

Study: Smoking increases mortality risk among colorectal cancer survivors

Colorectal cancer survivors who smoke cigarettes were at more than twice the risk of death than non-smoking survivors, adding to existing evidence that cigarette smoking is associated with higher all-cause and colorectal cancer-specific mortality.

4 Feb 2015

Research opens door to development of new therapies to block HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

While antiretroviral therapies have significantly improved and extended the lives of many HIV patients, another insidious and little discussed threat looms for aging sufferers - HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). The disorders, which strike more often in HIV patients over age 50, can result in cognitive impairment, mild to severe, making everyday tasks a challenge.

3 Feb 2015

International community funding can significantly reduce cancer deaths in LMICs by 2030

Increased annual international community funding of US$18 billion globally could save three million lives per year by 2030 and many more in succeeding decades,

3 Feb 2015

Researchers are one step closer to devising an approach to identify pancreatic cancer earlier

Pancreatic cancer affects approximately 46,000 people each year in the United States and ranks fourth among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Only about 6 percent of individuals with pancreatic cancer will live five years after their diagnosis.

3 Feb 2015

New study helps explain how booster shots trigger immune 'memory' to improve

The last time you were in the doctor's office for a vaccine booster shot, did you wonder why you needed one? Exactly how booster shots offer long-term protection from viruses has long been a mystery to scientists.

3 Feb 2015

Isis announces top-line results from ISIS-PTP1B Rx Phase 2 study in type 2 diabetes patients

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today top-line results from a Phase 2 study of ISIS-PTP1B Rx in patients with type 2 diabetes. In the Phase 2 study patients treated with ISIS-PTP1B Rx achieved statistically significant reductions in body weight and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c).

3 Feb 2015

Research describes new way of shrinking ovarian cancer tumors, improving drug delivery

New research published in the February 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal, may eventually help improve the five-year survival rate of ovarian cancer patients by describing a new way of shrinking ovarian cancer tumors while also simultaneously improving drug delivery.

3 Feb 2015

Researchers reveal new pathway for inhibiting growth of tumor cells tied to BRCA mutations

Inhibiting the action of a particular enzyme dramatically slows the growth of tumor cells tied to BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations which, in turn, are closely tied to breast and ovarian cancers, according to researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center.

3 Feb 2015

CellDetect urine test for detecting bladder cancer meets primary endpoint in multi-center clinical study

BioLight Life Sciences Investments Ltd., a firm that invests in, manages and commercializes biomedical innovations in ophthalmology and cancer diagnostics, announced today that a blinded, multi-center clinical study of the CellDetect non-invasive test for detecting bladder cancer in urine, successfully achieved the study's primary endpoint for effectively detecting the recurrence of bladder cancer in subjects with a history of the disease.

3 Feb 2015

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Latest Cancer News and Research

Researchers offer critical new information about head and neck squamous cell cancer

ESMO highlights collaborative efforts to improve access to cancer medicines

BioMed Realty Trust expands footprint in Seattle's core innovation district of South Lake Union

MGH, MIT researchers reveal how the brain controls different sleep states

Anti-viral immune cells could inhibit bone marrow transplant infections caused by CMV

One in four nonsmokers still exposed to secondhand smoke, shows CDC report

New app for clinical detection of skin cancer launched on World Cancer Day

New study identifies three genes that enable glioblastoma to recur, progress after radiation therapy

Clusters of gene-blocking microRNAs can limit spread of cancer

Oncology experts study use of fertility-sparing cancer treatments

Class-action lawsuit filed against Health Net for misrepresenting physician and hospital networks

Study: Smoking increases mortality risk among colorectal cancer survivors

Research opens door to development of new therapies to block HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

International community funding can significantly reduce cancer deaths in LMICs by 2030

Researchers are one step closer to devising an approach to identify pancreatic cancer earlier

New study helps explain how booster shots trigger immune 'memory' to improve

Isis announces top-line results from ISIS-PTP1B Rx Phase 2 study in type 2 diabetes patients

Research describes new way of shrinking ovarian cancer tumors, improving drug delivery

Researchers reveal new pathway for inhibiting growth of tumor cells tied to BRCA mutations

CellDetect urine test for detecting bladder cancer meets primary endpoint in multi-center clinical study

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