Scitizen Cancer

Professor Naomi Halas at Rice University (TX) discusses her nanotechnology research and its applicable uses in science and medicine of the future. (CNN)

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/nanotechnology-in-medicine-massive-advances-on-a-tiny-scale_a-24-1414.html

Anticancer agents such as paclitaxel and cisplatin display a very high therapeutic potency towards isolated cancer cells. However, the observed anti-tumour efficacy in patients is disappointing w...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/magic-bullets-how-nanosized-drug-packages-can-bring-drugs-more-selectively-to-cancer_a-24-1226.html

Efforts to train the immune system to attack cancer cells has been met with limited success, mainly because the immune system recognizes cancer cells as self. Our team at the University of Georgi...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/a-vaccine-for-cancer_a-24-1194.html

Cell rolling is an important physiological and pathological process that is used to recruit specific cells in the bloodstream to a target tissue. This process may be exploited for biomedical appl...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/slowing-cell-rolling-in-the-bloodstream_a-24-1181.html

Breast cancer is a deadly disease. This year over 170,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. This year the number of new cases are approximately 125 per 100,000 fo...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/new-lead-for-breast-cancer-therapy_a-24-660.html

A Sky News Video on the discovery of four new genes that contribute to the risk of breast cancer. Geneticists believe that their findings may help to develop an effective breast cancer screening ...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/four-new-breast-cancer-genes-identified_a-24-670.html

We recently characterized the genes expressed by ovarian tumor blood vessel cells. This work demonstrated that the blood vessel cells in ovarian cancer are different from normal blood vessel cell...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/characterization-of-ovarian-tumor-vascular-cells-a-new-source-for-ovarian-cancer-biomarkers_a-24-463.html

Vinyl carbamate (VC) is derived from ethyl carbamate (EC), a chemical found in alcoholic beverages and fermented foods. We carried out studies to determine and measure the mutations and chromosom...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/inhibition-of-vinyl-carbamate-induced-mutagenicity-and-chromosomal-damage-by-a-garlic-component-in-mice_a-24-464.html

The first tumor suppressor gene was identified in the 1950s and was designated Retinoblastoma (RB) because of the tumors that formed on the retina of the eye when the gene was mutated (Vogel 1979...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/role-of-the-rb-tumor-suppressor-in-regulation-of-stem-cell-proliferation_a-24-446.html

The ketogenic diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate and low protein diet that has been used for decades as a last resort for managing drug-resistant seizures in children with epilepsy. Our study, ...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/epilepsy-diet-is-effective-in-managing-malignant-brain-cancer_a-24-427.html

DNA has been the focus of biomedical research since the discovery of its structure by Watson and Crick in 1953. DNA is portrayed as the essence of life, the container of all the information that ...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/dna-as-a-sensor-of-oncogenic-threat_a-24-325.html

Dr. Kenneth Kinzler is a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also a MERIT Award recipient at the National Cancer Institute. His current research is directed at th...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/an-exciting-moment-in-time-for-cancer-research_a-24-317.html

Worldwide, cancer persists as one of the most important diseases that affects human beings. According to the Globocan series of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, in the year 2002 t...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/common-drugs-can-be-effective-anticancer-drugs_a-24-315.html

Over 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, but thanks to new findings, at least five percent of those cases can potentially be prevented in the future, not by mastectomies...

http://www.scitizen.com/cancer/possibility-of-drug-treatment-to-prevent-breast-cancer_a-24-281.html