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Using the immune system to fight cancer: an interview with Dr Charles Akle

We all produce as many as 100,000 different types of cancer cells every day, which are recognized and eliminated by our extraordinarily efficient immune system. However, if something goes wrong with the immune system, and it no longer gets rid of these cells, then that’s when cancerous cells grow and become a problem.

12 Sep 2016

Researchers identify how ionising radiation can cause cancer by damaging DNA

For the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ionising radiation.

12 Sep 2016

Researchers find no increase in cancer risk among WTC-exposed firefighters

Researchers found no overall increase in cancer risk among World Trade Center (WTC)-exposed firefighters following the 9/11 attacks compared with other firefighters from several US cities.

9 Sep 2016

Triptolide molecule can turn into 'cruise missile' against cancer

More than 20 years ago, a billboard in China piqued the interest of a chemical biologist. It endorsed an extract from the plant known as the “thunder god vine” as an immunosuppressant.

9 Sep 2016

Researchers unlock genetic code that disrupts response to breast cancer therapy

Scientists may have unlocked the genetic code that determines why many patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer fail to respond to the widely used drug tamoxifen.

7 Sep 2016

Cedars-Sinai researchers develop new way to identify patients at risk for aggressive prostate cancer

Scientists at Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to identify which prostate cancer patients are likely to develop aggressive types of the disease even if their tumors at first appear to be lower risk.

7 Sep 2016

New PET scan can detect prostate cancer earlier than MRIs and CT scans

Loyola Medicine is the first center in the Midwest to offer the first effective PET/CT scan for prostate cancer patients.

7 Sep 2016

PSA failure linked to increased risk of death among healthy men

A new study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital has found that a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in healthy men who have previously been treated for prostate cancer is significantly associated with a 1.6-fold increased risk of death.

6 Sep 2016

New drug holds potential for treating advanced mastocytosis

Most people have never heard of mastocytosis. It's a rare, sometimes deadly, immune disorder. Now new research may help those with advanced mastocytosis and possibly many more people, too.

6 Sep 2016

Research findings pave way to better tailored treatment for oesophageal cancer

Scientists have discovered that oesophageal cancer can be classified into three different subtypes, paving the way for testing targeted treatments tailored to patients' disease for the first time.

6 Sep 2016

DNA-binding protein CHD1 could be potential biomarker for targeted prostate cancer treatment

The loss of CHD1, one of the most frequently mutated genes in prostate tumors, sensitizes human prostate cancer cells to different drugs, including PARP inhibitors.

5 Sep 2016

European scientists invent new microscope for rapid detection of deadly infections

A group of European scientists have invented a microscope that will allow the fastest ever detection of life-threatening infections caused by bacteria, such as E. coli or Staphylococcus, and conditions such as Meningitis, saving millions of lives every year.

24 Aug 2016

NYU Lutheran offers many treatment options for kidney stone sufferers

Frederick A. Gulmi, MD, chief of urology at NYU Lutheran, cautions anyone who has never had a bout with kidney stones.

24 Aug 2016

New MRI method detects low zinc levels to help identify healthy prostate tissue from cancer

A novel MRI method that detects low levels of zinc ion can help distinguish healthy prostate tissue from cancer, UT Southwestern Medical Center radiologists have determined.

23 Aug 2016

Low selenium levels linked to liver cancer risk? An interview with Dr David Hughes

Food provides us with a variety of substances we need to maintain life. These substances are essential nutrients and are classified as macronutrients (water, protein, fats, and carbohydrates) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals).

22 Aug 2016

Study highlights racial/ethnic disparities in genomic sequencing

As scientists learn more about which genetic mutations are driving different types of cancer, they're targeting treatments to small numbers of patients with the potential for big payoffs in improved outcomes.

19 Aug 2016

New study shows female urologists perform more surgeries on women than male counterparts

Although female certified urologists are still a minority within the specialty, they perform many more procedures on women than their male colleagues, who perform more procedures on men than their female colleagues.

17 Aug 2016

IRB Barcelona scientists rediscover utility of disordered proteins as therapeutic targets

Prostate cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's...these three diseases are associated with proteins that share a common feature, namely disordered regions that have no apparent rigid three-dimensional structure.

16 Aug 2016

Novel computational analysis of prostate cancer suggests potential targets for therapy

Cancer researchers have applied a comprehensive set of analytical tools to lethal cases of metastatic prostate cancer, yielding a detailed map of the complex networks of interactions among genes and proteins that enable prostate cancer cells to proliferate and evade treatment.

11 Aug 2016

SBP board member donates $1M for researchers to study pancreatic and prostate cancer

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has received a $1M donation from The Epstein Family Foundation for scientists to study pancreatic and prostate cancer.

10 Aug 2016

Prostate Cancer News and Research

Latest Prostate Cancer News and Research

Using the immune system to fight cancer: an interview with Dr Charles Akle

Researchers identify how ionising radiation can cause cancer by damaging DNA

Researchers find no increase in cancer risk among WTC-exposed firefighters

Triptolide molecule can turn into 'cruise missile' against cancer

Researchers unlock genetic code that disrupts response to breast cancer therapy

Cedars-Sinai researchers develop new way to identify patients at risk for aggressive prostate cancer

New PET scan can detect prostate cancer earlier than MRIs and CT scans

PSA failure linked to increased risk of death among healthy men

New drug holds potential for treating advanced mastocytosis

Research findings pave way to better tailored treatment for oesophageal cancer

DNA-binding protein CHD1 could be potential biomarker for targeted prostate cancer treatment

European scientists invent new microscope for rapid detection of deadly infections

NYU Lutheran offers many treatment options for kidney stone sufferers

New MRI method detects low zinc levels to help identify healthy prostate tissue from cancer

Low selenium levels linked to liver cancer risk? An interview with Dr David Hughes

Study highlights racial/ethnic disparities in genomic sequencing

New study shows female urologists perform more surgeries on women than male counterparts

IRB Barcelona scientists rediscover utility of disordered proteins as therapeutic targets

Novel computational analysis of prostate cancer suggests potential targets for therapy

SBP board member donates $1M for researchers to study pancreatic and prostate cancer

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