Integrative medicine focuses on mind, body and spirit, combining today’s cutting-edge treatments with nontraditional techniques and approaches. The June issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter features an in-depth Special Report on this rapidly growing area of medicine, covering mind-body, energy and hands-on therapies. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by [...]
Dilon Diagnostics, the industry leader in molecular breast imaging, announced that the Society of Nuclear Medicine Procedure Guidelines Committee has released The SNM Procedure Guideline for Breast Scintigraphy with Breast- Specific Gamma Cameras. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
New research, ‘Recent advances in understanding hormonal therapy resistant prostate cancer,’ is the subject of a report. Androgen deprivation therapy has been the major treatment for advanced prostate cancer (PCa) and has shown to prolong life. However, remissions are temporary and patients almost inevitably progress to become castration-resistant [...]
Susun began studying herbal medicine in 1965 when she was living in Manhattan while pregnant with her daughter, Justine Adelaide Swede. She wrote her first book — Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year. It was followed by Healing Wise (1989), New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way (1992 and revised in 2002), and Breast [...]
A report, ‘Impact of dexamethasone responsiveness on long term outcome in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma,’ is newly published data in British Journal of Haematology. Dexamethasone (Dex), alone or in combination, is commonly used for treating multiple myeloma. Dex as single agent for initial therapy of myeloma [...]
Researchers detail in ‘Targeted chemotherapy for head and neck cancer with a chimeric oncolytic adenovirus coding for bifunctional suicide protein FCU1,’ new data in head and neck cancer. According to recent research published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, Transfer of prodrug activation systems into tumors by using [...]
When President Richard Nixon launched the war on cancer in his January 1971 State of the Union, he called for "the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon." Yet nearly 40 years and $100 billion in federally funded cancer research later, it seems the [...]
New investigation results, ‘Wild-type BRCA1, but not mutated BRCA1, regulates the expression of the nuclear form of beta-catenin,’ are detailed in a study published in Molecular Cancer Research. BRCA1 is an essential caretaker protein in the surveillance of DNA damage, is mutated in approximately 50% of all hereditary [...]
Fresh data on prostate cancer are presented in the report ‘Neoadjuvant therapy preceding prostatectomy for prostate cancer: rationale and current trials.’ Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
Life Technologies said Friday it is applying its gene sequencing prowess to a challenging project: detecting genetic information about breast cancers that show no sign of obvious mutations linked with the disease. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass