Archive for December, 2009
Start ambitious project to discover new details and improve the treatment of leukemia
An important and valuable study is conducted by a leading research team comprised of members from 8 countries, under the direction of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona.
The renowned team Read the rest of this entry »
Hypothyroidism associated with liver cancer in women
Research led by Dr. Manal M. Hassan, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas made an important discovery about l liver cancer, finding that women with hypothyroidism may be at greater risk of developing liver cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
More than 2 thousand deaths by lung cancer
Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous and mortality figures are appalling leaving. And while it affects both women and men, are the last of which carry a real advantage in this problem.
Mil 800 men and 300 women die every year because they contracted lung cancer. This has revealed the Spanish Read the rest of this entry »
ICO summer campaign to prevent skin cancer
The Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), one of the most important institutions for cancer research in Europe, has just launched its campaign to prevent skin cancer for the summer season.
An oncologist-tutor for cancer patients
It has required the figure of a guardian for oncologist-cancer patients. This would be referred to a guide that can assist the patient in the disease process and serve as a companion through the treatment.
A study that has the name ‘The Therapeutic Value in Oncology’, conducted by the University of Patients, in Read the rest of this entry »
It could prevent breast cancer spread
The journal Nature Cell Biology has published a study by the University of Tsukuba in Japan in which is claimed to have discovered an enzyme capable of preventing breast cancer metastasis.
The SRC-3 gene regulatory enzyme present in CHIP may stop cancer spread breast to other organs. Thus, this catalyst stops the spread of cancer and prevents other areas being affected. Read the rest of this entry »
Women with kidney cancer have increased over the past three decades as a consequence of smoking
The increase in cases of kidney cancer has doubled the rate of 7 per 100,000 populations in 1975 to 12/100.000 today.
This has given rise especially among women who smoke increase the chances of tumor risk by 35 percent.
The information has been offered for the 34th National Congress of the Spanish Association of Urology (AEU) in Feria Valencia, adding Read the rest of this entry »
Chromosome is a mechanism implicated in cancer
The Cancer Institute Dana-Farber in the U.S. and a team of researchers have been able to find a new chromosomal mechanism may be implicated in cancer development.
The investigation and its findings are published in the online edition of Nature magazine, where he also Read the rest of this entry »
It can prevent prostate diseases
According to statistics from the Mexican Social Security Institute, 60 percent of men in excess of 50 years are highly likely to be affected with his prostate disease. Even in this gland cancer is the second cause of cancer in men.
But it usually attacks only the cancer, other diseases common in the male public are prostatitis and obstructive prostatic hyperplasia. The first is a serious inflammation of the prostate and may be caused by Read the rest of this entry »
Spanish scientists involved in research on bladder cancer
The University Hospital of Zaragoza and the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona took part in independent international investigation to identify genetic variants that are associated with bladder cancer and prostate cancer. Read the rest of this entry »