Virgin Mobile USA announced the launch of the LG Pink Flare limited edition mobile phone, which will be available nationwide exclusively at Best Buy stores. The company also stated that the launch of the handset allowed it to join the fight against breast cancer.The Pink Flare handset has a price tag of $29.99, and f... |
29 January 2009
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Following a three-year-long study, scientists at the U-M Life Sciences Institute were finally able to prove that four genes were responsible for stem cell degradation with age and cancer control. The genes inhibit the activity of brain stem cells over time, which causes them no to regenerate and produce new tissue. T... |
17 October 2008
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A new technique developed by a research team at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) could provide geneticists with the tissue samples they've needed for years to conduct thorough genetic research on cancer. The unavailability of sufficient samples meant that this type of genetic research had to be done on low... |
16 October 2008
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Neuroblastoma, a form of cancer that manifests mostly in infants, affects about 600 newborns in the United States every year. Doctors suspected that a few specific genes were responsible for the development of the disease, but until now they had no solid leads to follow in their research. An international team manage... |
16 October 2008
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The interruption of stem cells' natural bio-electric flow has been linked to the appearance of cancerous cells in frog embryonic stem cells, researchers at the Forsyth Institute say. When the electrical mechanism was influenced, stem cells mutated and evolved like cancer, changing their shape and size, and quick... |
14 October 2008
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It's common knowledge among doctors that people eating many fruits and vegetables are at a much lower risk of developing cancer than those who don't. But the reason why this happens remained a mystery until recently, when researchers at the Institute for Food Research came up with an answer. The team of sci... |
13 October 2008
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The presence of large amounts of estrogen hormones in the female body has already been linked to increased chances of developing breast cancer, but doctors are now adding that weight is also directly responsible for increasing risk of cancer. Simply put, the heavier a person is, the more hormones are created to circu... |
9 October 2008
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Cancer researchers studying the pathology of the disease in its early stages made a potentially groundbreaking discovery. They found out that tiny anomalies at a cellular level could be the triggering event for the formation of cancerous cells. Such irregularities usually occur before cells mutate, which is the leadi... |
7 October 2008
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The US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) released new information to the public, stating that regular colonoscopies over the age of 75 are not advisable. The communicate states that exams of such nature over that age are useless, as patients that underwent this procedure since they were 50 and did not develop... |
7 October 2008
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According to an official National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) study published Sunday, October 5, lung cancer, the deadliest form of cancer out there and the number one cause for cancer-related deaths worldwide, receives the lowest levels of funding of all types. Esophageal and pancreatic cancers, which also have... |
6 October 2008
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The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) has released new information about the role that molecular imaging had and will have on breast cancer detection. As October is U.S. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, SNM decided to release this fact sheet during the Nuclear Medicine Week. It highlights the major features of... |
4 October 2008
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The appearance of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) cells in humans has been linked to the EBNA1 protein of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) by researchers at the University of Toronto. This is a major find, as the team has also figured out exactly how this happens. Apparently, the viral protein interferes in the natural ce... |
3 October 2008
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After studying 540 liver transplant recipients since 1982 to 2005, a team of researchers led by Helena Isoniemi uncovered that the standardized incidence ratio (SIR) in those who received transplants was of 2.59 when compared with the rest of the population. Unlike previous studies, which had too few subjects or gave... |
3 October 2008
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Michael Egan at TransMolecular, a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, led a study designed to show how cancerous cells would react when subjected to radiations carried by a certain non-toxic compound in scorpion venom. The researcher came up with the idea after noticing that the particular substances were attr... |
2 October 2008
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A new adhesion molecule, named P-Cadherin, was linked to the developing stages of colon cancer by researchers at The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. This molecule is normally present during the developing stages of a human fetus, but it then disappears in adults. The new study provides some potentially groun... |
1 October 2008
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