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ImmunoCellular Therapeutics options immunotherapy targeting CSCs using abnormal Notch and Numb pathways

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd., a biotechnology company that is focused on the development of novel immune-based cancer therapies, announced today that it has entered into an option agreement with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center relating to an immunotherapy targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs) which has demonstrated in pre-clinical animal models significant abilities to target and destroy CSCs.

3 Dec 2009

Smoking cessation efforts attracted mixed results in Ohio's Appalachian region

In the Appalachian region of the country — where smoking rates are high, tobacco is often a cash crop and income and education levels are low — a smoking cessation effort led by non-medical professionals was successful in the short term, but quit rates trailed off in the long term.

3 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Fund: Congress must enforce BPA ban in food and beverage containers

In the wake of the first evidence that American babies are born contaminated with a plastics chemical linked to birth defects and breast cancer, Congress must act immediately to protect infants and mothers.

3 Dec 2009

Study: Affluent people more likely to undergo bowel cancer screening than deprived counterparts

Affluent people are 50 per cent more likely to take part in bowel cancer screening than their deprived counterparts, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer (BJC).

3 Dec 2009

Exposure to secondhand smoke may increase breast cancer risk

Exposure to secondhand smoke for a prolonged period of time and in high quantity may increase the risk of breast cancer, even in women who never smoked cigarettes themselves.

3 Dec 2009

Lunasin may have important health benefits, two new studies report

Two new University of Illinois studies report that lunasin, a soy peptide often discarded in the waste streams of soy-processing plants, may have important health benefits that include fighting leukemia and blocking the inflammation that accompanies such chronic health conditions as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

3 Dec 2009

Novel multi-analyte approach to develop urine-biomarker based diagnostic assay to be presented

Predictive Biosciences today announced that Company scientists will be presenting a novel multi-analyte approach to the development of a non-invasive, urine-biomarker based diagnostic assay during the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO).

3 Dec 2009

More than 80 abstracts highlighting Bristol-Myers Squibb's oncology compound to be presented

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company today announced that more than 80 abstracts highlighting compounds from the company’s oncology portfolio will be presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to be held December 5-8 in New Orleans.

3 Dec 2009

Vertex Pharmaceuticals signs agreement to sell common stock shares

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell 11,500,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten offering at a price to the public of $38.50 per share, which would result in aggregate gross proceeds of $442.8 million.

3 Dec 2009

AclarusDx Alzheimer’s test now available as RUO product

ExonHit Therapeutics is pleased to announce that AclarusDx™ Alzheimer’s test (formerly known as EHT Dx21), its blood-based test for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is now available as a Research Use Only (RUO) product for pharmaceutical companies and leading academic centers conducting clinical trials in Alzheimer’s disease.

3 Dec 2009

Latino men adapted to U.S. culture more likely to quit smoking than their less-acculturated counterparts

Latino men who are more adapted to U.S. culture are more likely to quit smoking than their less-acculturated counterparts, according to research by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center published in the December issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, which has a special emphasis on tobacco.

3 Dec 2009

Head and neck cancer survivors who smoke and drink face increased risk of death

Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption before head and neck cancer diagnosis strongly predicts the patient's future risk of death, according to published studies. Now, results of a new study show a similar effect among those who continued these habits after cancer diagnosis.

3 Dec 2009

Waterpipe tobacco smoking as deadly as cigarette smoking

Smoking tobacco through a waterpipe exposes the user to the same toxicants - carbon monoxide and nicotine - as puffing on a cigarette, which could lead to nicotine addiction and heart disease, according to a study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher published in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

3 Dec 2009

Chinese 'herbal' cigarettes are just addictive and no safer than regular cigarettes, find researchers

Despite popular belief and some marketing claims, researchers have found that Chinese "herbal" cigarettes that combine medicinal herbs with tobacco are just as addictive and no safer than regular cigarettes.

3 Dec 2009

CT imaging after chemotherapy with bevacizumab may help predict overall survival

Preliminary research suggests that criteria based on computed tomography (CT) imaging of changes in tumors from colorectal liver metastases after chemotherapy with the drug bevacizumab may have the potential to predict overall survival, according to a study in the December 2 issue of JAMA.

3 Dec 2009

Researchers find youths’ smoking experimentation increases along with film exposure

The more movie scenes of smoking they watch, the more likely Mexican-American youths are to experiment with smoking, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Dartmouth College report in the December issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

3 Dec 2009

New study links cigarette smoking with colorectal cancer

New study results strengthen the evidence that people who smoke cigarettes over a long period of time have an increased risk for developing colorectal cancer, even after adjusting for other risk factors.

3 Dec 2009

Research study compares genetic make-up of humans and primates

In spite of their genetic similarity to humans, chimpanzees and great apes have maximum lifespans that rarely exceed 50 years. The difference, explains USC Davis School of Gerontology Professor Caleb Finch, is that as humans evolved genes that enabled them to better adjust to levels of infection and inflammation and to the high cholesterol levels of their meat rich diets.

3 Dec 2009

New research provides adequate evidence to support home smoking ban

New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative's efforts for a home smoking ban, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

3 Dec 2009

VARI scientists determine the structure of receptors that plants use to sense ABA

Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants respond to environmental stresses such as drought and cold.

3 Dec 2009

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics options immunotherapy targeting CSCs using abnormal Notch and Numb pathways

Smoking cessation efforts attracted mixed results in Ohio's Appalachian region

Breast Cancer Fund: Congress must enforce BPA ban in food and beverage containers

Study: Affluent people more likely to undergo bowel cancer screening than deprived counterparts

Exposure to secondhand smoke may increase breast cancer risk

Lunasin may have important health benefits, two new studies report

Novel multi-analyte approach to develop urine-biomarker based diagnostic assay to be presented

More than 80 abstracts highlighting Bristol-Myers Squibb's oncology compound to be presented

Vertex Pharmaceuticals signs agreement to sell common stock shares

AclarusDx Alzheimer’s test now available as RUO product

Latino men adapted to U.S. culture more likely to quit smoking than their less-acculturated counterparts

Head and neck cancer survivors who smoke and drink face increased risk of death

Waterpipe tobacco smoking as deadly as cigarette smoking

Chinese 'herbal' cigarettes are just addictive and no safer than regular cigarettes, find researchers

CT imaging after chemotherapy with bevacizumab may help predict overall survival

Researchers find youths’ smoking experimentation increases along with film exposure

New study links cigarette smoking with colorectal cancer

Research study compares genetic make-up of humans and primates

New research provides adequate evidence to support home smoking ban

VARI scientists determine the structure of receptors that plants use to sense ABA

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