Catalyst Oncology

(University of Michigan Health System) University of Michigan researchers have discovered that a key protein in cells plays a critical role in not one, but two processes affecting the development of cancer. source : http://www.eurekalert.org

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This article reviews the following: “Molecular Determinants of the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Phenotype”. The recognition of the existence of an aggressive, lethal subtype of breast cancer known as inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) dates back to 1924, when the first comprehensive assessment of IBC, based on a series of 28 patients, was presented by Lee and Tannenbaum.[1] However, the disease is rare, accounting for approximately 2.5% of all newly diagnosed breast cancers in the United States,[2

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Cell biologists identify new tumor suppressor for lung cancer (University of Cincinnati) Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati have identified a new tumor suppressor that may help scientists develop more targeted drug therapies to combat lung cancer. source : http://www.eurekalert.org

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New hope for cancer comes straight from the heart (Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Digitalis-based drugs like digoxin have been used for centuries to treat patients with irregular heart rhythms and heart failure and are still in use today . In the Dec. 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine now report that this same class of drugs may hold new promise as a treatment for cancer. This finding emerged thr

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Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells (McMaster University) A new study by McMaster University researchers has provided insight into how scientists might develop therapies and drugs that more car efully target cancer, while sparing normal healthy cells. source : http://www.eurekalert.org

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(Princeton University) A team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has identified a long-sought gene that’s fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients, spreading the disease, resisting traditional chemom apies and eventually leading to death. In doing so, the scientists may have

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‘Relocation’ plan of metastatic cancer cells uncovered by Stanford researchers (Stanford University Medical Center) Few things are as tiresome as house hunting and moving. Unfortunately, metastatic cancer cells have the relocation process down pat. Tripping nimbly from one abode to another, these migrating cancer cells often prove far more deadly than the original tumor. Although little has been known about how these rogue cells choose where to put down roots, researchers at the Stanford Un

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It has recently been announced that there is a vaccine under test that will help in the fight against breast cancer. Breast cancer is a major health problem, causing a huge number of afflictions (in fact, in the US, it is estimated that upto 12% of all women will eventually develop breast cancer), and hence such a vaccine (that prevents breast cancer from coming back in many patients) will be a major new element of the fight against breast cancer: UAMS scientists expect to start clinical tria

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Study links obesity to elevated risk of ovarian cancer (American Cancer Society) A new epidemiological study has found that among women who have never used menopausal hormone therapy, obese women are at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer compared with women of normal weight. source : http://www.eurekalert.org

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Salk researchers develop novel glioblastoma mouse model (Salk Institute) Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma — the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans — that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain tumors that arise naturally. source : http://www.eurekalert.org

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