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Archive for February, 2010

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA announced today that it has joined City of Hope, a research and cancer treatment to explore the use of nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors.

JPL reported in a statement, nanotechnology could revolutionize medicine with the promise of playing a role in selective cancer therapy. Read the rest of this entry »

The activity of two molecules of RNA (ribonucleic acid) present in tumor cells of malignant breast cancers prevents them from spreading to bones and lungs, according to an article published in the journal Nature, the team involving the Spanish researcher Joan Massagué .  Read the rest of this entry »

Poverty and increasingly higher smoking rates in the coming years will be the main causes of cancer in developing countries, U.S. experts said today.

Life expectancy in people is increasing, but that causes people to take a larger amount of bad habits, like smoking, an activity that lead to an increase in the number of cancer cases, said Dr. Nancy Davidson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Read the rest of this entry »

The cancer will kill 7.6 million people worldwide this year, according to a report with preliminary data from the Cancer Society of the United States.

That figure represents an average of 20,000 deaths every day, said the report, which said more than 12 million people have contracted the disease this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers at the University of Haifa have discovered active compounds in the mushroom known as Ganoderma Lucidum, which slow down some of the mechanisms that develop prostate cancer.

A statement sent by the University of Haifa, explained that the primary action of this fungus-known edible Reishi in Japan and China since at least 2000 years-is to inhibit the activity of androgen receptors and prevent the proliferation of cancer cells. Read the rest of this entry »

The risk of cancer, especially lung and colorectal cancer increases significantly among people who eat red or processed meats, according to a study released today by the journal PLoS Medicine.

The research, conducted by scientists at the National Cancer Institute, indicates that the greatest danger is also manifest in the liver or esophageal cancer and pancreatic cancer among men who consumed red meat. Read the rest of this entry »

The Greenpeace argues that the results of a new study shows clearly the relationship between proximity to nuclear plants and the risk they run on all children with cancer and, above all, of leukemia.

The study in question, ordered by the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), was released over the weekend and the results have been controversial because, at least apparently contradictory. Read the rest of this entry »

Scientists from U.S., Finland, Sweden and Italy have managed to identify genetic mutations that make the risk of developing breast cancer in the worst prognosis is transmitted from father to son. Read the rest of this entry »

A Netherlands study of over 120,000 people, half of them women, has established a direct relationship between consumption of acrylamide, compound formed when heating food, and the incidence of ovarian and uterine cancer.

Acrylamide occurs in processed or cooked foods such as bread, breakfast cereals, coffee, meat and potatoes fried or baked. Read the rest of this entry »

A team of researchers found a gene that suppresses tumors and produced a laboratory mouse that is resistant to cancer, according to a study by the University of Kentucky (USA).

Vivek Rangnekar and colleagues at the College of Medicine of the UK found that a gene called Par-4 kills cancer cells but not normal cells. Read the rest of this entry »