Dr Madhu Basetti, co-lead researcher also based at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said: «Our study is the first to use this approach to compare
how different cancers use and produce energy, and look for similarities.
Not exact matches
How can businesses offer employees discounted access to services, i.e., rather than pay for a set kind of insurance, can they offer a menu of
different options for employees, such as pet insurance, a specific kind of medical insurance (like
cancer insurance) or any other possibilities?
While it has shown promise for some types of tumors and become standard of care for others, researchers are just beginning to explore
how different immunotherapy technologies can be applied to brain
cancer.
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how they're improving operations in vastly
different corners of the industry, from increasing efficiency in EMRs and data - mining all the way to providing life - saving
cancer diagnoses.
Cancer Research UK carries out world - class research to improve understanding of the disease and find out how to prevent, diagnose and treat different kinds of ca
Cancer Research UK carries out world - class research to improve understanding of the disease and find out
how to prevent, diagnose and treat
different kinds of
cancercancer..
A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show
how obesity increases risk of 13
different cancers in young adults.
Work still needs to be done to determine exactly
how much gelsolin indicates a
cancer that is chemo - resistant and would require
different treatment options.
That trend is problematic considering that African - Americans — the most at - risk population for multiple myeloma — have
different genetics that can affect
how this type of
cancer progresses and what kind of targeted therapies are most effective, said Zarko Manojlovic, lead author of the study.
Slusher teamed up with Johns Hopkins Kimmel
Cancer Center immunologist Jonathan Powell, M.D., Ph.D., who has studied how cancer cells use different metabolic pathways to evade destruction by immune
Cancer Center immunologist Jonathan Powell, M.D., Ph.D., who has studied
how cancer cells use different metabolic pathways to evade destruction by immune
cancer cells use
different metabolic pathways to evade destruction by immune cells.
To understand
how these multi-colored lesions originated they examined blood from these mice and found that tumor cells in circulation frequently occurred as clusters comprised of
different colored
cancer cells.
This work was carried out with funding from the Association for International
Cancer Research (United Kingdom), the Lymphoma Research Foundation (USA) and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain), and illustrates how new genome sequencing technologies are revolutionizing the study of different types of c
Cancer Research (United Kingdom), the Lymphoma Research Foundation (USA) and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain), and illustrates
how new genome sequencing technologies are revolutionizing the study of
different types of
cancercancer.
Then, they estimated enrichment factors by determining
how frequently those known
cancer - associated genes occurred among the top gene candidates identified by
different analysis methods.
It's up to us to learn
how different animals tackle the problem so we can adapt those strategies to prevent
cancer in people,» says co-senior author Joshua Schiffman, M.D., pediatric oncologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Primary Children's Hos
cancer in people,» says co-senior author Joshua Schiffman, M.D., pediatric oncologist at Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Primary Children's Hos
Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Primary Children's Hospital.
«So perhaps in this age of
cancer genomics showing
how diverse and heterogenous human
cancer is, we should be focusing on the common effects that
different mutations lead to,» he says.
New Scientist spoke to breast
cancer specialist Allison Kurian, of Stanford University in California who has developed a tool that enables women to determine
how different treatment options can reduce their overall risk.
«If we could build a «family tree» of all
cancer nodules in a patient, we could determine
how different tumors are related to each other and reconstruct
how the
cancer evolved,» says Kamila Naxerova, PhD, of the Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the report being published in PNAS Early Edition.
Chronically - ill
cancer patients have
different exercise limitations than their healthy counterparts and other concurrent diseases and high symptom burden add challenges in
how best to study and implement physical activity programs in lung
cancer patients.
The study used a well - known line of pancreatic
cancer cells (AsPC - 1) in the laboratory and assessed
how well this grew when treated with either the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine or
different levels of commercially available chokeberry extract alone, and when treated with a combination of gemcitabine and chokeberry extract.
These cells have
different factors on their surfaces which determines
how «sticky» the cells are and whether they are responsible for mediating the
cancer cells binding to the blood vessel walls.
Analyzing the poly - G profiles of primary and metastatic colon
cancer samples from 22 patients revealed that
how the primary and metastatic tumors related to each other was
different for each patient.
Their recent study, which appears as the cover article in the May issue of
Cancer Research, shows that mathematical models can be used to predict
how different tumor cell populations interact with each other and respond to a changing environment.
Answering important clinical questions — such as whether genetic diversity is a risk factor for aggressive tumor development or
how it relates to treatment resistance — requires analyzing samples from many patients with
different types of
cancer.
This finding provides an explanation for
how the same
cancer - causing mutation can give rise to
different types of brain malignancies.
«The
cancer stem cells actively regrow and respond to the induced damage or apoptosis (cell death) caused by chemotherapy in between the
different cycles, similar to
how normal tissue stem cells respond to wound - induced damages.»
To establish
how different variants affect the risk of lung
cancer, for instance, scientists now realize they can not look at the DNA and medical records of just 100 people.
Dr. David Gilley's laboratory at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and Dr. Connie Eaves» laboratory at the BC
Cancer Agency's Terry Fox Laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, collaborated to determine
how telomeres are regulated in
different types of normal breast cells.
Gene expression profiling tests, such as Oncotype Dx, analyze the patterns of 21
different genes within
cancer cells to help predict
how likely it is that a women's
cancer will recur within 10 years after initial treatment and
how beneficial chemotherapy will be to her.
They're continuing to sequence prostate tumors to learn
how frequently
different mutations occur, as well as studying which of the rearranged genes are actually driving
cancer.
We provide initial insights into two critical issues: what clinical value can be extracted from
different commercial and academic
cancer genomic platforms, and
how to think about scaling access to that value,» noted the study's Principal Investigator, Robert Darnell, MD, PhD, Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University and Founding Director of the New York Genome Center.
A study led by scientists from Harvard Medical School reveals «hidden» variability in
how tumor cells are affected by anticancer drugs, offering new insights on why patients with the same form of
cancer can have
different responses to a drug.
Christofk studies the genes and proteins behind the way
cancer cells use sugars to live and grow, which is
different from
how normal cells do.
Blueprint will see where it stands after adding more patients with
different cancer types to the Phase 1 study and focusing more on
how long their responses last, rather than just whether they respond at all.
Recruiting diverse participants to these trials allows us to better understand
how cancer and its treatments impact
different communities and people differently.
Studying
cancer with single - cell technology will allow us to unlock the interactions between
different types of cells in tumors — and monitor
how these interactions change over time, affecting patients» outcomes.
But no matter
how many
different ways they did their experiments, the Salk researchers found that TGF - β can interfere with cells» damage responses in premalignant or
cancer cells.
Beverly Emerson studies
how different genes are turned on and off through the course of a
cancer — from the time cells become precancerous until the time they develop into a mature
cancer and spread to new organs.
As part of their ongoing research, Ratain and O'Donnell are actively seeking out genetic biomarkers that shed light on
how cancer patients will respond to
different treatments.
And we can also use what we know about the genetics of the human
cancer to make mutations in normal cells, and see
how different mutations drive invasion.»
A better understanding of
how the immune system works to fight
cancer and a detailed characterisation of the
different immune cells that infiltrate a particular patient's tumour, would enable more efficient treatments.
In this research study we are going to determine
how safe and well tolerated the study drug INCB059872 is in subjects with
different types of
cancer.
The researchers also could not assess
how many
cancers developed from the site of the initial suspicious mammographic finding and
how many were missed
cancers from a
different location, including the other breast.
We learn which specific genes are expressed in
cancer cells and
how a patient may respond to
different therapies, so that we can select the most appropriate targeted treatment for the particular
cancer.
It's up to us to learn
how different animals tackle the problem so we can adapt those strategies to prevent
cancer in people.
So
how do you figure out what's
different between
cancers so you can develop new therapies in the face of those differences?
«Each child is
different when it comes to predicting
how they will respond to
different cancer treatments,» Mody says.
«But breast
cancer has lagged behind a bit and so we're trying to understand why it's
different and
how to make immunotherapy more effective for breast
cancer patients.»
Dr. Gazit is focusing on
how to develop targeted treatment of
cancer cells using hematopoietic stem cells — stem cells used in
cancer treatment because of their ability to divide and form new and
different kinds of blood cells.
Ultimately the results will help the field of
cancer research to learn
how to combine and develop
different therapies to achieve better clinical outcomes for leukaemia patients.
Stanton explains
how these
different types of fat contribute to excess weight, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and various types of
cancer.
Unequal risks for breast
cancer associated with
different hormone replacement therapies: results from the E3N cohort study by Agnès Fournier, 1 Franco Berrino, 2 and Françoise Clavel - Chapelon1 * (9) http://bostonreview.net/BR35.3/angell.php Boston Review MAY / JUNE 2010 Big Pharma, Bad Medicine -
How corporate dollars corrupt research and education by Marcia Angell