Medicinal cannabis review highlights dilemmas facing health care professionalsDate: Thu, Sep 02
Published in: Journal of Clinical Nursing
Patients who use cannabis for medicinal purposes pose a wide range of legal, ethical and medical dilemmas for the health care professionals looking after them according to an in-depth review just published. The study also found extreme caution about inte...
[more]Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features chromosomal rearrangement, gene copy number methodsDate: Wed, Sep 01
Published in: Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Two freely accessible methods from the September 2010 issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols can be used to probe the genetic basis of cancer....
[more]Targeted strategies needed to find, prevent and treat breast cancer among Mexican-origin womenDate: Wed, Sep 01
Published in: Cancer
Specific prevention and education strategies are needed to address breast cancer in Mexican-origin women in this country, according to a study at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, which was published online in the journal Cancer. ...
[more]Personalized medicine: Molecular imaging predicts treatment success in many cancersDate: Wed, Sep 01
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Medicine
A series of studies published in the September Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) show that molecular imaging plays a critical role in the evaluation and treatment planning for a broad spectrum of cancers, including thyroid cancer and lymphoma. ...
[more]Lung cancer survival rates improved through use of individualized chemotherapyDate: Wed, Sep 01
Published in: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
Chemotherapy is the best broad defense against cancer recurrence after surgical resection. However, it is difficult to predict which patients will benefit from which regimen of anticancer drugs, if at all. Building on existing knowledge, a study publishe...
[more]Tumor budding identified as predictor for unfavorable outcome in lung cancerDate: Wed, Sep 01
Published in: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, and the prognosis is generally poor, even if surgery is successful. Furthermore, the incidence of one type of lung cancer, adenocarcinoma, has been increasing in recent years. ...
[more]New infrared light may open new frontier in fighting cancer, Tay SachsDate: Wed, Sep 01
Published in: Journal of American Chemical Society
A "game-changing" technique using near infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights against cancer and many other diseases....
[more]Governments should pay for smoking cessation therapiesDate: Mon, Aug 30
Published in: Canadian Medical Association Journal
Canada should follow the lead of Quebec, Australia and the United Kingdom by publicly funding smoking cessation pharmacotherapies, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)....
[more]For the first time, researchers identify and isolate adult mammary stem cells in miceDate: Mon, Aug 30
Published in: Genes & Development
For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified and isolated adult mammary stem cells in mice. Long-term implications of this research may include the use of such cells to regenerate breast tissue, provide a bett...
[more]Researcher finds revolutionary way to treat eye cancerDate: Fri, Aug 27
Published in: Archives of Ophthalmology
A University of Colorado researcher recently discovered an eye cancer treatment that may prevent blindness....
[more]A step toward a new sunscreen?Date: Thu, Aug 26
Published in: Cancer Prevention Research
Ongoing research finds that a blend of plant substances -- such as resveratrol and grape seed extract -- can prevent skin cancer in mice....
[more]Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology sees growth, promise of tumor ablationDate: Thu, Aug 26
Published in: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
The unprecedented growth and promise of using thermal ablation to target and kill cancer is the subject of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology's August supplement, "Thermal Ablation 2010: At the Crossroads of Past Success, Current Goals ...
[more]Mayo researchers develop new laboratory cell lines to study treatment for ATCDate: Wed, Aug 25
Published in: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
To their deep dismay, researchers at Mayo Clinic discovered several years ago that laboratory samples of anaplastic thyroid cancer they were using to help them find new treatments for this lethal disease were probably some other kind of cancer....
[more]Alcoholic liver disease is more aggressive than other chronic liver diseasesDate: Tue, Aug 24
Published in: Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
While diagnostic and treatment options for chronic liver disease are numerous, their effectiveness is unclear. New findings show that patients hospitalized with alcoholic liver disease have an increased mortality risk compared to patients with non-alcoho...
[more]Double-therapy approach effectively inhibited brain cancer recurrenceDate: Tue, Aug 24
Published in: Cancer Research
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School have identified a novel approach of combining chemotherapy with a targeted therapy to decrease the recurrence of glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive brain tumor....
[more]New nuclear breast imaging technologies associated with higher cancer risksDate: Tue, Aug 24
Published in: Radiology
Some nuclear-based breast imaging exams may increase a woman's risk of developing radiation-induced cancer. However, the radiation dose and risk from mammography are very low....
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