News articles tagged with 'tumour'
Team identifies tumour-specific pathway
— 22 Nov 2011 16:59 | HealthA research team led by UT Southwestern Medical Centre scientists has identified an atypical metabolic pathway unique to some tumours, possibly providing a future target for drugs that…
Old drugs find new target for treating brain tumour
— 19 Nov 2011 15:50 | HealthScientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Centre, in collaboration with colleagues in Boston and South Korea, say they…
Scientists discover a way to kill off tumours in cancer treatment breakthrough
— 6 Apr 2011 15:34 | HealthScientists from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast and Almac Discovery Ltd have developed a new treatment for cancer which rather than attacking tumours directly,…
New target identified for squamous cell lung cancer
— 3 Apr 2011 12:26 | HealthScientists at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute have identified a mutation in the DDR2 gene that may indicate which patients with squamous cell lung cancer will respond to dasatinib…
New inhibitor prevented lesions, reduced tumour size in basal cell cancer
— 3 Apr 2011 12:23 | HealthA new hedgehog pathway inhibitor demonstrated efficacy in preventing and treating basal cell cancer among patients with basal cell nevus syndrome, a rare inheritable disease, according…
Immune system may guide chemotherapy for breast cancer
— 3 Apr 2011 12:20 | HealthA study published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, debuting here at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, held April 2-6, showed…
DNA of 50 breast cancer patients decoded
— 3 Apr 2011 12:14 | HealthIn one of the largest cancer genomics investigations reported to date, scientists have sequenced the whole genomes of tumours from 50 breast cancer patients and compared them to the…
DNA of 50 breast cancer patients decoded
— 3 Apr 2011 12:02 | HealthIn the single largest cancer genomics investigation reported to date, scientists have sequenced the whole genomes of tumours from 50 breast cancer patients and compared them to the…
Screening does not reduce prostate cancer deaths
— 1 Apr 2011 16:18 | HealthScreening does not significantly reduce prostate cancer deaths, but the risk of overdetection and overtreatment is considerable, concludes a 20-year study published on bmj.com today…
New tool allows for an alternate method of prostate cancer diagnosis
— 1 Apr 2011 15:57 | HealthResearchers have found that it may not be necessary to look for tumours directly in patients with prostate cancer - analysing non-tumour tissue may be an effective option, according…