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RALEIGH, N.C. _ Clinical trials begin this week at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., on a cancer therapy that has completely cured the disease in every mouse tested over the past few years. The therapy involves the transfusion of white blood cells from cancer-resistant donors into cancer patients, letting loose a uniquely qualified army of disease fighters to attack the invading tumor. Some scientists are skeptical about the move from mice to humans, but others are excited...
Researchers reduce protein; stop cancer growth "“ Plan to develop new cancer therapy targetResearchers at the OU Cancer Institute have identified a new gene that causes cancer. The ground-breaking research appears Monday in Nature's cancer journal Oncogene.The gene and its protein, both called RBM3, are vital for cell division in normal cells. In cancers, low oxygen levels in the tumors cause the amount of this protein to go up dramatically. This causes cancer cells to divide...
Eat your broccoli! That's the advice from UCLA researchers who have found that a chemical in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may hold a key to restoring the body's immunity, which declines as we age. Published in this week's online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the study findings show that sulforaphane, a chemical in broccoli, switches on a set of antioxidant genes and enzymes in specific immune cells, which then combat the injurious effects of molecules...
A concentrated extract of freeze dried broccoli sprouts cut development of bladder tumors in an animal model by more than half, according to a report in the March 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. This finding reinforces human epidemiologic studies that have suggested that eating cruciferous vegetables like broccoli is associated with reduced risk for bladder cancer, according to the study's senior investigator, Yuesheng Zhang, MD, PhD,...
Next Pharmaceuticals announced today the results of a study that an over-the-counter non-toxic botanical supplement, Nexrutine (Phellodendron amurense), prevents the progression of prostate tumors in mice. The study was conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Pratap Kumar, Department of Urology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and is published in the May 1, 2007 edition of Clinical Cancer Research, a prestigious peer-reviewed health journal from American...
SEATTLE, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Onconome, Inc., a privately held Seattle based biotechnology company, today announced the publication of a groundbreaking research study conducted at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The study relates to a newly discovered blood protein, ProstaMark(R) EPCA-2 (Early Prostate Cancer Antigen) that could change the way men are screened for prostate cancer, a disease which kills more than 25,000 men each year. The simple to use blood test detected an...
By Lisa Richwine WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Genetically altered immune cells wiped out tumors in two men with a deadly form of skin cancer and kept the patients disease-free for at least 18 months, U.S. scientists said on Thursday. Fifteen patients did not respond to the treatment, however, and the researchers and other experts said more work was needed to make it more effective. Still, the findings were welcomed as evidence that cancer patients can be successfully treated using gene...
By Amy NortonNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A healthy dose of vegetables every day may help keep the heart arteries clear, a study in mice suggests. Researchers found that lab mice given a diet full of broccoli, carrots, green beans, corn and peas developed far less artery narrowing than those reared on a veggie-free diet.For humans, the findings offer more support for the advice health experts and mothers have long given: eat your vegetables.Discounting French fries, most Americans aren't...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pooled data from six case-control studies suggest that higher consumption of tap water-based drinks may slightly increase the risk of bladder cancer among men.The increased risk of bladder cancer with tap water consumption was "consistently found in all six studies, making chance an unlikely explanation," write investigators in the International Journal of Cancer.They caution, however, that for now, the study finding that tap water "is associated...
By Amy NortonNEW YORK -- Contrary to what some smokers may hope, antioxidants and other vitamins seem to offer no protection against lung cancer, new research suggests.In an analysis of eight previous studies, researchers found no evidence that vitamins A, C, E or folate lower a person's risk of lung cancer.Across the studies, which followed thousands of adults for up to 16 years, people with the highest intakes of the vitamins were no less likely to develop lung cancer than those with the...
