Umbilical cord blood was found to be as good a source of stem cells as a suitable adult donor, as part of treatment for leukemia, US researchers discovered.
They said umbilical cord transplants are a viable option for adults with leukemia who urgently need a bone marrow transplant to replace cells destroyed by chemotherapy [...]
A team of researchers at the King Saud University found a strong link between the long-term L carnitine supplementation and liver cancer prevention.
Prof. Sayed-Ahmed’s team discovered that long-term carnitine supplements may even prevent the development of liver cancer. In their study using lab rats as animal model, they observed that a depletion in L carnitine [...]
The image below shows an exciting development in cancer cure: nanobots successfully attacking a cancer cell, disabling it. The “attack nanobots” do the work by safely delivering what is called small-interfering RNA (siRNA) to deactivate the protein, thereby starving the tumor cell to death.
Moreover, the team provided the first demonstration that this new type [...]
Even rich, famous, beautiful women get sick, really sick. But these 11 celebrities — from Christina Applegate to Olivia Newton-John –are living proof that even breast cancer can be defeated, and their stories of triumph have created or attracted support to cancer awareness organizations and research.
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Estrogens can fuel the growth of many tumors, even in the prostate–and estrogen can do this at amazingly tiny concentrations. Identifying how estrogens’ prevalence varies by milk type, and in what chemical form the hormones occur, required a new assay, which the NCI scientists describe in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Chromatography B.
Using [...]
Taking exercise can cut the risk of the most common kind of bowel cancer by a quarter, research suggests.
US scientists, who reviewed 52 previous studies, calculated the most active people are 24% less likely to develop colon cancer than the least active.
Colon cancer is the most common form of bowel cancer, a disease which affects [...]
An anti-cancer compound found in broccoli and cabbage works by lowering the activity of an enzyme associated with rapidly advancing breast cancer, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study appearing Dec 3 in the online early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The compound, indole-3-carbinol, is already undergoing clinical trials [...]
The war against cancer gathered steam in 2008, as new drugs tackled the toughest cancers with some success, and advances were made in both disease prevention and risk factor identification.
A new report from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) details 12 “major” advances and 19 “notable advances” across the gamut of cancer prevention, screening, [...]
Korean scientists have made a major breakthrough in finding a cure for liver cancer.
Korean scientists have developed a substance they call “TSAHC,” which is to be used for a new medicine that could suppress the protein TM4SF5 known to be a major cause of liver cancer.
Lee Jung-weon, a professor at the College of Medicine of [...]
The results of a research study by the North Carolina State University from 2003 show that women who perform fellatio (or “blowjob” in colloquial language) and swallow semen regularly, one to two times a week, may reduce their risk of breast cancer by up to 40 percent.
The results were unexpected by the doctors, who had [...]
