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Prostate test ‘public health disaster’: discoverer (Reuters)

Jeff Daas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:52 +0000

Reuters – The most commonly used tool for detecting prostate cancer, routine PSA screening, has become “a hugely expensive public health disaster,” its discoverer said on Wednesday.
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Scientists Find Key to Hormone-Resistant Prostate Tumors (HealthDay)

Jeff Daas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:08 +0000

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) — Though hormone therapy
has proven useful in treating late-stage prostate cancer, it often results
in the development of fatal secondary tumors that are resistant to such
therapy.
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2010 Recipient Of Minority Scholar Award Will Conduct Clinical Research On Leukemia

Jeff Daas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:01:14 +0000

Alison Walker, MD, has been selected to receive the ASH-AMFDP Award, and will begin her research in acute myeloid leukemia in July of this year…
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Meat And Colorectal Cancer Risk: Scientists Suggest Potential Mechanisms

Jeff Daas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:01:01 +0000

Scientists in the US who undertook a large study to investigate what biological mechanisms might be behind the already established link between colorectal cancer and consumption of red and processed meat, confirmed that such a link exists and suggested the main players are three compounds: heme iron, nitrate/nitrite, and heterocyclic amines…
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2010 Recipient Of Minority Scholar Award Will Conduct Clinical Research On Leukemia

Jeff Daas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:10 +0000

Alison Walker, MD, has been selected to receive the ASH-AMFDP Award, and will begin her research in acute myeloid leukemia in July of this year…
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Reovirus May Be A Novel Approach To Prostate Cancer Treatment

Jeff Daas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:01:07 +0000

Researchers in Canada have detected a novel oncolytic viral therapy against prostate cancer with use of a virus called the reovirus, according to study results published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research…
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Research Identifies New Mechanism Regulating Embryonic Development

Jeff Daas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:57 +0000

A Princeton University-led research team has discovered that protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embryonic development. The work suggests that these signals are combined long before they interact with the organism’s DNA, as was previously believed, and also may inform new therapeutic strategies to fight cancer…
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Genetic Variant Greatly Increases Lung Cancer Risk For Light Smokers

Jeff Daas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:10 +0000

Individuals with a certain type of genetic susceptibility to lung cancer face a greatly increased risk for the deadly disease with even a small exposure to cigarette smoke, a study team that includes researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC) has concluded…
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Genetic Variant Greatly Increases Lung Cancer Risk For Light Smokers

Jeff Daas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:16 +0000

Reovirus May Be A Novel Approach To Prostate Cancer Treatment

Jeff Daas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:14 +0000