News articles tagged with 'metastasis'
Experimental agent reduces breast cancer metastasis to bone
— 4 Nov 2009 12:17 | HealthResearchers have reduced breast cancer metastasis to bone using an experimental agent to inhibit ROCK, a protein that was found to be over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer. In... — full story
Wistar researchers identify gene that regulates breast cancer metastasis
— 6 Oct 2009 21:00 | HealthResearchers at The Wistar Institute have identified a key gene (KLF17) involved in the spread of breast cancer throughout the body. They also demonstrated that expression of KLF17 together... — full story
NEDD9 protein supports growth of aggressive breast cancer
— 3 Oct 2009 08:51 | HealthResearchers at Fox Chase Cancer Centre have demonstrated that a protein called NEDD9 may be required for some of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer to grow. Their findings,... — full story
Lung cancer suppresses miR-200 to invade and spread
— 15 Sep 2009 13:45 | HealthPrimary lung cancer shifts to metastatic disease by suppressing a family of small molecules that normally locks the tumour in a noninvasive state, researchers at The University of Texas... — full story
Scientists identify gene that predicts post-surgical survival from brain metastasis
— 2 Sep 2009 10:58 | HealthResearchers at the National Cancer Institute have identified a gene that may play a role in breast cancer metastasis to the brain, according to a report in Molecular Cancer Research,... — full story
Einstein researchers identify potential target for metastatic cancer
— 11 Aug 2009 10:05 | HealthThe deadliest part of the cancer process, metastasis, appears to rely on help from macrophages, potent immune system cells that usually defend vigourously against disease, researchers... — full story
Advances in lung cancer research announced at conference
— 8 Aug 2009 14:55 | HealthDr Glen Weiss of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare this week announced two significant advances in treating lung cancer at an international... — full story
Targeting MMPs to halt advanced metastatic breast cancer
— 16 Jul 2009 18:00 | HealthAn upcoming G and D paper reveals how two specific matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) proteins contribute to bone metastasis in advanced breast cancer - lending important new insight into... — full story
Ready for relapse: Molecule helps breast cancer cells to survive in the bone marrow
— 7 Jul 2009 14:28 | HealthPatients who survive an initial diagnosis of breast cancer often succumb to the disease years later when the cancer shows up in a different part of the body. Now, scientists have identified... — full story
Research reveals what drives lung cancer's spread
— 3 Jul 2009 01:15 | HealthA new study by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC) reveals the genetic underpinnings of what causes lung cancer to quickly metastasise, or spread, to the brain... — full story