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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Announces Publication Of New Preclinical Research Data For Novel Anticancer Compound RX-8243

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: RNN), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing potential best in class oncology and CNS therapeutics, announced the publication of a research article in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters on the anti-tumor activity of RX-8243 and its analogues...

Newly Developed Prediction Tool Helps Estimate Local Recurrence In Patients With Non-Invasive Breast Cancer

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

The decision regarding treatment following breast-conserving surgery for patients diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS) has long been an area of discussion and confusion for patients and physicians alike. While the mortality rates for DCIS remain low, the risk of local recurrence in the breast is high. Standard treatments following surgery include radiation therapy and hormone treatment...

Acupuncture Helps Ease Side Effects And Symptoms Of Some Cancers

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Recent studies have shown that acupuncture can help control a number of symptoms and side effects -- such as pain, fatigue, dry mouth, nausea, and vomiting -- associated with a variety of cancers and their treatments...

Using PET/CT In The Detection Of Breast Cancer Metastases

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

About one-third of women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer will have their cancer travel, or metastasize, to other parts of the body, with the bone being the most common site of initial detectable spread...

Blood Publication Shows MLN4924 Preclinical Activity In Lymphoma

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company announced the publication of an article in the journal Blood describing the novel mechanism of action of MLN4924 through targeted pathway modulation in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). MLN4924 is a small molecule inhibitor of the NEDD8-Activating Enzyme (NAE), a key component of the protein homeostasis pathway...

Peeling Back DNA Packaging To Gain Insight Into Cells

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Scientists have built a clearer picture of how lengthy strands of DNA are concertinaed when our cells grow and divide, in a discovery could help explain how cell renewal can go wrong. Scientists have identified thousands of proteins that play a key role in compacting DNA - a crucial process by which DNA is shortened up to 10,000 times to fit inside cells as they split into two...

The Art Of Dividing

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

A basic requirement for growth and life of a multicellular organism is the ability of its cells to divide. Chromosomes in the cells duplicate and are then distributed among the daughter cells. This distribution is organized by a protein complex made up of several hundred different proteins, called the centrosome...

New Findings May Lead To The Development Of More Effective Therapies For Inflammation, Wounds And Malignant Tumors

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

In two closely related studies, two teams of Scripps Research Institute scientists have discovered the underlying mechanisms that activate a type of immune cell in the skin and other organs. The findings may lead to the development of new therapies to treat inflammation, wounds, asthma, and malignant tumors...

Cancer-Causing Gene Found To Be Crucial In Stem Cell Development

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Stem cells might be thought of as trunks in the tree of life. All multi-cellular organisms have them, and they can turn into a dazzling variety other cells - kidney, brain, heart or skin, for example...

Important Breakthrough In Origins Of Aggressive Breast Cancer

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in finding out how aggressive cancers originate, raising hope of novel targeted therapies for future breast cancer patients, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell...

Need For Cancer Information And Support Expected To Double, UK

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Macmillan Cancer Support and Boots UK today officially launched a groundbreaking new three-year partnership, which aims to help provide the two million people living with cancer, and their family and friends, increased access to the information and support they need - when they need it, where they need it...

Celsion Receives SBIR Grant To Expand Its Technology Platform

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Celsion Corporation (Nasdaq: CLSN), a biotechnology drug development company, announced that it has been awarded a competitive Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support the proposal, "New Thermal Sensitive Carboplatin Liposomes for Cancer"...

Cancer Drug Model Could Be A Potential Treatment For Alzheimer's - Alzheimer's Society Comment

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Treatments modelled on the cancer drug Gleevec could potentially prevent the formation of amyloid plaques - one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease according to a study. Treatments modelled on the cancer drug Gleevec could potentially prevent the formation of amyloid plaques - one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease according to a study published in the journal Nature...

Drug Discovery Tools To Fight Cancer, Blindness To Be Discussed At UB Symposium

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Twenty-first-century pharmaceutical breakthroughs require 21st-century drug discovery tools, such as computational or in silico molecular design and high-throughput screening of effective, new compounds. That's the theme of a University at Buffalo symposium to be held Sept...

Imec European Collaborative Research To Develop Lab-on-chip System For Cheap And Fast Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Today, at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners have announced the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE. The MIRACLE project aims to develop an operational lab-on-chip for the isolation and detection of circulating and disseminated tumor cells (CTCs and DTCs) in blood...

Near Infrared Light May Open New Frontier In Fighting Cancer, Tay-Sachs

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

A "game-changing" technique using near infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights against cancer and many other diseases. University of Central Florida chemists, led by Professor Kevin Belfield, used near infrared light and fluorescent dye to take pictures of cells and tumors deep within tissue...

Connection Between Light At Night (LAN) And Cancer Revealed

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

A new study from the Center for Interdisciplinary Chronobiological Research at the University of Haifa has found an additional link between Light At Night (LAN) and cancer. This research joins a series of earlier studies carried out at the University of Haifa that also established the correlation...

Afferent Pharmaceuticals Presents Data Supporting Use Of P2X3 Antagonists In Reducing Bone Cancer Pain

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Afferent Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class, small molecules that target P2X3 receptors, announced preclinical in vivo results demonstrating that an investigational P2X3 receptor antagonist significantly prevented and reversed bone cancer pain behavior in comparison to vehicle controls...

Asuragen's Clinical Laboratory Launches KRAS And BRAF Mutation Testing

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Asuragen, Inc., a leader in molecular diagnostics and nucleic acid-based pharmacogenomics services, announced that it has launched KRAS and BRAF mutational testing services in its CAP-accredited CLIA laboratory...

Common Osteoporosis Drug Linked To Higher Risk Of Oesophageal Cancer

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

A new UK study that followed a large number of people found that those who took 10 or more prescriptions for oral bisphosphonates, a group of drugs commonly used to treat the bone disease osteoporosis, were at higher risk of developing oesophageal cancer...

Molecular Imaging's Benefits In The Evaluation And Successful Treatment Planning For A Wide Spectrum Of Diseases

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

A series of studies published in the September Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) show that molecular imaging plays a critical role in the evaluation and treatment planning for a broad spectrum of cancers, including thyroid cancer and lymphoma...

Chromosomal Rearrangement, Gene Copy Number Methods Featured In Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

A cell devotes a significant amount of effort to maintaining the stability of its genome, preventing the sorts of chromosomal rearrangements characteristic of many cancers. Assays that measure the rate of gross chromosomal rearrangements (GCRs) are needed in order to understand the individual genes and the different pathways that suppress genomic instability...

Cancer Patients Pay The Price To Keep Warm , UK

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

With temperatures set to plummet below freezing across the UK this week, leading cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support is warning that keeping warm will be even harder for cancer patients undergoing treatment, as they are already twice as likely to fall into fuel poverty as the general population 1 ...

Macmillan's Response To NICE Decision On Liver Cancer Drug

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

Responding to the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) not to recommend sorafenib (Nexavar®) as a treatment for advanced liver cancer, Mike Hobday, Head of Campaigns at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: 'We are extremely disappointed that NICE has decided not to recommend sorafenib as a treatment for people with advanced liver cancer...

Novel Nanotechnology Collaboration Leads To Breakthrough In Cancer Research

Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today

One of the most difficult aspects of working at the nanoscale is actually seeing the object being worked on. Biological structures like viruses, which are smaller than the wavelength of light, are invisible to standard optical microscopes and difficult to capture in their native form with other imaging techniques...

Osteoporosis Drugs May Be Linked to Cancer Risk

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Osteoporosis Drugs May Be Linked to Cancer Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 9/3/2010 8:58:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/3/2010 8:58:19 AM

Americans Blind to the Obesity Epidemic

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Americans Blind to the Obesity Epidemic
Category: Health News
Created: 9/2/2010 10:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/3/2010

Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ

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Title: Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ
Category: Health News
Created: 9/2/2010 10:56:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/2/2010 10:56:02 AM

Immune System Research Sees Many Similarities Among People

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Immune System Research Sees Many Similarities Among People
Category: Health News
Created: 9/1/2010 2:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 9/2/2010

Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked to Lower Lung Cancer Rate in Mice

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked to Lower Lung Cancer Rate in Mice
Category: Health News
Created: 9/1/2010 2:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 9/2/2010

Selenium May Protect Against Bladder Cancer

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Selenium May Protect Against Bladder Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 9/1/2010 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/1/2010 11:01:05 AM

Gene Test, Preventive Surgery Save Women's Lives

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Gene Test, Preventive Surgery Save Women's Lives
Category: Health News
Created: 9/1/2010 10:55:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/1/2010 10:55:19 AM

Review Finds No Statin-Cancer Link

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Review Finds No Statin-Cancer Link
Category: Health News
Created: 8/31/2010 12:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 9/1/2010

Can Fruits, Veggies Help Ward Off Lung Cancer?

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Can Fruits, Veggies Help Ward Off Lung Cancer?
Category: Health News
Created: 8/31/2010 12:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 9/1/2010

Moderate Drinking May Boost Risk of Breast Cancer's Return

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Moderate Drinking May Boost Risk of Breast Cancer's Return
Category: Health News
Created: 8/30/2010 4:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 8/31/2010

Bladder Cancer

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Bladder Cancer
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/30/2010

Food Better Than Supplements for Cancer Prevention: Expert

MedicineNet Cancer General

Title: Food Better Than Supplements for Cancer Prevention: Expert
Category: Health News
Created: 8/27/2010 10:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/30/2010

The United States Therapeutic Apheresis Market to Reach US$120 Million...

Health: Cancer

GIA announces the release of a comprehensive report on the US Therapeutic Apheresis market. The US therapeutic apheresis market is forecast to reach US$120 Million by 2015, driven by emerging...

(PRWeb September 03, 2010)

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Elliott Realty?s Myrtle Beach Golf Authority Announces ?Rally for the...

Health: Cancer

September 11th Tournament at Eagle Nest Golf Club in Little River, S.C. to Support Breast Cancer Awareness

(PRWeb September 03, 2010)

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EHE International Window Display at Rockefeller Plaza to Promote...

Health: Cancer

September 26th is National Mesothelioma Awareness Day. Though mesothelioma is rarely in the spotlight, this year, EHE International is helping to change this, by generously donating a window display...

(PRWeb September 02, 2010)

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Ironworks Consulting Redesigns and Rebuilds American Cancer Society...

Health: Cancer

Ironworks, a management, Web and IT consulting firm, is pleased to announce the recent launch and rebuild of the American Cancer Society?s website.

(PRWeb September 02, 2010)

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Visiopharm Awarded Patent for Combined Platform of Image Analysis and...

Health: Cancer

New technique addresses a major bottleneck in whole slide stereology, further expanding the use of stereological sampling principles in pharmaceutical and toxicological practice.

(PRWeb September 02, 2010)

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"To Your Good Health Radio" welcomes author, Dr. Block to discuss his...

Health: Cancer

Host of "To Your Good Health Radio" , Dr David Friedman welcomes Dr. Keith Block, referred to by many as ?the father of integrative oncology,? live to the show Thursday, September 2nd, 1pm ET

(PRWeb September 02, 2010)

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Otis Spunkmeyer® Joins Susan G. Komen For The Cure® in the...

Health: Cancer

Otis Spunkmeyer joins Susan G. Komen for the Cure in the fight to end breast cancer through sales of its limited-edition Pink Cookies.

(PRWeb September 02, 2010)

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This Girl's gone PINK! California Designer Launches Breast Cancer...

Health: Cancer

Breast Cancer Awareness ?Pink Calendar Keys?Mark Recovery Milestones and Benefit the Tigerlily Foundation.

(PRWeb September 02, 2010)

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Northwest Community Hospital Nurse Navigator Plots Dual Course for...

Health: Cancer

Research shows that men with prostate cancer often choose not to talk about their disease, even with spouses. This is where Juli Aistars makes a difference as prostate nurse navigator at Northwest...

(PRWeb September 01, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/NCH_Prostate_Health/Juli_Aistars/prweb4451784.htm

Primary Organic Therapy Inc. is Approved to Operate a Medical...

Health: Cancer

Maine?s initial round of medical marijuana dispensary approvals is now complete, culminating with the acceptance of a non-profit dispensary in district 7 that cites the importance of education,...

(PRWeb September 01, 2010)

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Foundation for Families with Sick Children to Host Casino Night...

Health: Cancer

According to the National Childhood Cancer Foundation, one in every four elementary schools has a child with cancer. While many children are cured, there are still many children who die. Considering...

(PRWeb September 01, 2010)

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WeddingMuseum.com Now Offers Custom Illustrated Wedding Websites

Health: Cancer

WeddingMuseum.com, a Las Vegas, NV based company, has announced today that it has released a new version of its wedding websites. The redesigned wedding websites will now include a custom illustrated...

(PRWeb September 01, 2010)

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ProStrakan, Inc. Announces Chemo-Patch Video and Updates to...

Health: Cancer

Updates to SANCUSO.com and the release of ProStrakan's educational corporate SANCUSO video on YouTube.

(PRWeb September 01, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/ProStrakan_Sancuso/prweb4448084.htm

Intrinsic Imaging Appoints Jatinder Kaur as Senior Director, Medical...

Health: Cancer

With its team of more than sixty sub-specialized, board-certified radiologists, and through its use of advanced medical imaging technology, Intrinsic?s experienced clinical trial team provides...

(PRWeb September 01, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4450914.htm

Lance Armstrong Attends Charity Mountain Bike Event, $300,000 Raised...

Health: Cancer

Steamboat Springs, Colorado is a haven for outdoor activities and adventure, creating the perfect host environment for fundraisers and charity events revolving around fly fishing and bike riding....

(PRWeb September 01, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/steamboat/charity/prweb4455774.htm

Webinars On New Federal Penalties In $100 / Day / Patient On Insurers,...

Health: Cancer

On August 24, 2010, IRS, DOL & HHS Released New Federal External Review Laws Imposing Federal Excise Tax Penalties in $100 Per Day Per Patient On Employers, Insurers, HMO', TPA's & IRO's For...

(PRWeb August 30, 2010)

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Texting to Save Children's Hearts & Lives

Health: Cancer

The Pediatric Heart Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children?s Hospital is partnering with CareSpeak Communications to bring mHealth (mobile health) to its teenage heart...

(PRWeb August 27, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/08/prweb4434774.htm

Oncology Care Live, Continuing Medical Education Congress Presented by...

Health: Cancer

Virtual Congress Led by Activity Directors Dr. Judith Karp and Dr. Luis Diaz to Review Latest Solid Tumor Treatments Live Video Presentations to Feature More than Thirty Cancer Care Leaders Over Two...

(PRWeb August 27, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/OncologyCareLive/1/prweb4436014.htm

Business Experts Help Families Cope with Illness

Health: Cancer

Patients and families dealing with cancer or other serious illnesses can now learn coping skills from a series of new audio programs featuring world-class experts in business, success, and happiness....

(PRWeb August 27, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/copinguniversity/1009/prweb4372954.htm

Digital Pathology Services Firm Flagship Biosciences Creates...

Health: Cancer

Scientific Advisory Board to help drive pathology innovation in preclinical toxicology and oncology clinical trials

(PRWeb August 27, 2010)

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Lipsitz & Ponterio Announces New Asbestos and Plastics Website

Health: Cancer

The law firm of Lipsitz & Ponterio, LLC announces the launch of its new website entitled Plastics and Mesothelioma, located at...

(PRWeb August 27, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/08/prweb4427894.htm

Daytona Beach Cancer Institute Urges Women to Be Aware of Breast...

Health: Cancer

The Cancer Institute at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center is Warning Women to Be Aware of Breast Cancer Symptoms and Treatment Options.

(PRWeb August 27, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/08/prweb4428444.htm

COPE Library: Breast Health Edition - Launched by EduCare Publishing

Health: Cancer

COPE Library: Breast Health Edition, a 427 topic web-based patient-education program for health care providers is being released by EduCare...

(PRWeb August 26, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/08/prweb4423994.htm

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