Sentences with phrase «to promote cancer»

In these experiments, plant protein did not promote cancer growth, even at the higher levels of intake.

It can promote cancer cell survival and growth of ER + breast cancer cells.

The catch is that the hormones needed for breast development could also promote cancer growth.

And processed meats contain certain additives that in high quantities are believed to promote cancer as well.

In fact, Omega - 6 fatty acids actually promote the cancer pathway, thus supplementation of Omega - 6 oils is NOT recommended in any form of cancer.

However, these tissues can continue to look and function normally despite accumulating a large proportion of cells that are carrying mutations that promote cancer formation.

One of his many discoveries was that casein, the protein found in milk products, promotes cancer tumor growth.

Although these cells play an essential role in wound healing and injury repair, they may also promote cancer incidence in tissues.

The removed gene region thus appears to act as an important gene switch promoting cancer, and without it tumors develop much more rarely.

As a result, signals that promote cancer cell proliferation and survival are produced continuously.

And as new research on the dangers of excess sugar consumption continues to build up, there is now more reason than ever to suspect that sugar could actually promote cancer.

But University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers have now found that chronic liver inflammation also promotes cancer by suppressing immunosurveillance — a natural defense mechanism in which it's thought the immune system suppresses cancer development.

«We've long known that NF - kB promotes cancer development by subverting apoptosis, an internal safety mechanism that otherwise would cause cancer cells to self - destruct,» says principal investigator Denis Guttridge, PhD, professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics and of molecular and cellular biochemistry.

«It's intriguing that we are now seeing evidence of evolutionary adaptation in these specific shark immunity genes, which just happen also to be involved in promoting cancer in humans.»

The research team, led by Professor Yoshiaki Ito, Senior Principal Investigator at CSI Singapore, found that a modification called phosphorylation made to RUNX3 promotes cancer progression by allowing cell division.

This is a study in the line of T. Colin Campbell and other vegetarians who have tried to show that animal protein promotes cancer and mortality.

Women with the KRAS - variant are also more susceptible to triple - negative breast cancer, tumors whose growth is not fueled by the hormones estrogen and progesterone, or by the presence of a particular genetic mutation known as HER2, which promotes cancer cell growth.

«We know that continuous unremitting inflammation is one of the main factors that promotes cancer of the bile ducts,» Dr. Roberts says.

Her death from ovarian cancer led to his active involvement in promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles and co-founding Gilda's Club.

Biden was honored at the event for his work promoting cancer research and funding.

COMPREHENSION OF the link between inflammation and cancer requires knowing how the body reacts to invaders — and how normal healing is then subverted into promoting cancer when the inflammatory state lasts too long.

The new data thus «adds depth to our understanding of things that go awry in these critical pathways, sometimes promoting cancer formation, other times providing cancer cells with advantages that enable them to crowd out healthy cells,» comments Dr. Tuveson.

Why do certain mutational events promote cancer phenotypes in some tissues and not in others?

We already have, since some approved drugs intervene in cancer cells» specific metabolic needs, but research into how altered metabolism promotes cancer is leading to more directed efforts.

Defective BRCA1 causes aberrant expression of non-coding satellite RNA that leads to genomic instability, thereby promoting cancer development.

Casein promotes cancer not just when isolated, but also when occurring in its natural food form (in a matrix of other milk substances like whey, bioactive peptides, conjugated linoleic acid, minerals, and vitamins, some of which appear to have anti-cancer properties).

In 2012, NCI established a new Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG) to focus on the study of how altered genes promote cancer.

Mogroside V has been found in research to have the ability to inhibit tumor growth in pancreatic cancer by interfering with the rapid dividing of cancer cells, preventing angiogenesis (blood flow to the tumor), and even promoting cancer cell death (10).

However, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which is more common in the elderly, is difficult to cure, although long - term survival has been achieved in chronic myeloid leukemia due to the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (drugs that block signals promoting cancer cell growth).

Berger's research confirms obesity promotes cancer by multiple simultaneous pathways.

The international research team — led by the University of Adelaide and including members from the University of Michigan, Vancouver Prostate Centre, the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins University — showed that a specific microRNA (a type of molecule involved in regulating the level and activity of genes) called miR - 194 promotes cancer metastasis by inhibiting a key protein called SOCS2.

But mutated or dysfunctional Rb is associated with several major cancers and Cyclin D has long been described as an oncogene that promotes cancer because it was believed to inactivate the Rb tumor suppressor function through a process called phosphorylation, which involves phosphate molecules being added to proteins, essentially turning them on or off.

They found out how NPTX2 and GluR4 promote cancer growth and metastasis.

The results uncovered an atlas of elements in the mammalian genome that could potentially promote cancer resistance.

Moreover, inhibiting the NF - kB pathway can paradoxically promote cancer in some instances.

Studies have shown that stress might promote cancer indirectly by weakening the immune system's anti-tumor defense or by encouraging new tumor - feeding blood vessels to form.

And these SiglecFhigh neutrophils were found to promote cancer infiltration.

Previous studies have indicated that p300 and CBP may promote cancer under certain circumstances.

Flavonoids tested in the study affected the endocrine system in ways that in one case promoted cancer and in another repressed it.

Given omega 6 fatty acid's reputation for promoting cancer — at least in animal studies — researchers are examining the role that antioxidants play in blocking the harmful effects of this culprit, found in many cooking oils.

The final list of 24 questions ranges from how obesity contributes to cancer risk, to why certain mutations promote cancer in some tissues but not others and why some tumors lie dormant for years before becoming malignant.

«Why premature cell division promotes cancers: Researchers have discovered how genes responsible for cell division, when mutated, disrupt the replication process of the genome and promote tumor formation.»

In recent years, my laboratory has discovered driver mutations, which confer a selective growth advantage and thus promote cancer development, for certain rare tumor types.

In their Molecular Cell study, the Salk Institute researchers report that a protein known as transforming growth factor beta (TGF - β), considered a tumor suppressor in early cancer development, can actually promote cancer once a cell drifts into a pre-cancerous state.