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Series of Five Studies Highlights Potential of Technology to Boost Patient Care, Research LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Health, and collaborating cancer physicians have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of an advanced blood test for detecting and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs)--breakaway cells from patients' solid tumors--from cancer patients. The findings, reported in five new...
Researchers at CIC Biogune, the Cooperative Centre for Research into Biosciences and led by Dr. Maria Luz Martinez Chantar, have found a strong relationship between high levels of Hu antigen R (HuR) protein and the malignancy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, through a novel molecular process in the investigation of this pathology and known as neddylation. The project provides new opportunities for making advances in the quest for personalized therapeutic applications in the treatment for...
The geographical and health sciences website EurekaMag.com publishes insights into specific subjects of all areas of geographical and health science. The latest reviews cover Aurora borealis which are the Northern Lights caused by radiation emitted as light from atoms in the upper atmosphere as they are hit by fast-moving electrons and protons, and bayam which is amaranth, a herb with approximately 60 species and inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple to red and gold. The latest...
BRONX, N.Y., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (http://www.einstein.yu.edu/) of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center (http://www.montefiore.org/), the University Hospital for Einstein, have found a biomarker in head and neck cancers that can predict whether a patient's tumor will be life threatening. The biomarker is considered particularly promising because it can detect the level of risk immediately following...
Drug used to treat melanoma with 1 mutation sets off a cascade that results in a different type of skin cancer in cells with another mutation Patients with metastatic melanoma taking the recently approved drug vemurafenib (Zelboraf®) responded well to the twice daily pill, but some of them developed a different, secondary skin cancer. Now, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, working with investigators from the Institute of Cancer Research in London, Roche and...
Some skin cancers, in particular basal cell carcinoma, can be successfully treated with a prescription cream containing the compound imiquimod. The antitumor effect of imiquimod is multifactorial. One of the more complex aspects of imiquimod's antitumor effects is its ability to modify the immune response. A team of researchers led by Maria Sibilia, at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, has now identified a new way in which imiquimod modifies the immune system to clear tumors in a...
In bladder cancer test case, new software tool developed at U-M separates malignancy from background tissue As tissue slides are more routinely digitized to aid interpretation, a software program whose design was led by the University of Michigan Health System is proving its utility. In a new study, a program known as Spatially Invariant Vector Quantization (SIVQ) was able to separate malignancy from background tissue in digital slides of micropapillary urothelial carcinoma, a type of...
ZURICH, Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have developed a flexible, non-contact microfluidic probe made from silicon that can aid researchers and pathologists to investigate critical tissue samples accurately for drug discovery and disease diagnostics. Flickr Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/sets/72157628678347543 Tissue staining is widely used in pathology to detect disease markers in a patient's sample. More specifically,...
NovoPath, Inc. announced today that NovoPath™ Anatomic Pathology Software Platform Version 8.0, is 2011/2012 compliant and is certified as an EHR Module. Princeton, New Jersey (PRWeb) January 11, 2012 (PRWEB) January 11, 2012 NovoPath, Inc. announced today that NovoPath™ Anatomic Pathology Software Platform Version 8.0 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as an EHR Module on December 19, 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an...
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Polaris Group (Polaris) today announced that it has dosed the first patient in a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating its lead cancer therapeutic, pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG 20), in combination with docetaxel in advanced solid tumors with emphasis on prostate cancer patients. Patients with advanced solid tumors, including castration resistant prostate cancer, who are candidates for docetaxel, will be treated with a standard...
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The Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology (IJDVL) is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published bimonthly on behalf of the Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists. It was established in 1940 and the current editor-in-chief is D.M. Thappa (as of May 2012). The journal reaches more than 6,000 members of the IADVL as well as nearly 200 medical colleges in India. The journal focuses on articles on clinical and experimental...
Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV or MCPyV), first discovered in January 2008, is one of seven human tumor viruses. It is suspected to cause most of Merkel cell carcinoma which is a rare, aggressive form of skin cancer. Around 80% of Merkel cell carcinoma tumors are found to be infected with MCV. It is found in respiratory secretions suggesting that it may be transmitted by a respiratory route. Usually the tumors with MCV viruses go through at least two mutations that render the virus...
