Cancer Research

FRIMLEY, England, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - Findings Provide New Evidence for Potential Role of Zometa(R) to Help Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer Returning New data from three clinical trials show Zometa(R) (zoledronic acid) reduced the risk of local and distant recurrence in pre- and post-menopausal women with early-stage breast cancer. Investigators reported on the studies this week in Stockholm at the 33rd Annual Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the primary European professional organization representing medical oncologists. The new data add to a growing…

LONDON, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lung Cancer Journalism Awards' mission: to raise global awareness of the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Winners receive: Global showcase recognising their prize-winning work GBP2,000 research grant Enter to win in 3 different categories: Best Medical Article Best Consumer Article Best Broadcast Report Requirements: The entry must have been published or broadcast between 1 September 2007 and 1 September 2008. Closing Date for entries: 24 October 2008 For more information: visit http://www.lungcancercoalition.org to download an…

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - Biotech Begins to Demonstrate Strategy to Expand NHL Marketplace with Novel Antibody and Speedy DXL Screening Preclinical Development Program - InNexus Biotechnology Inc. (TSX VENTURE: IXS; OTC Bulletin Board: IXSBF; http://www.ixsbio.com), a drug development company commercializing the next generation of monoclonal antibodies based on its technology, Dynamic Cross Linking (DXL(TM)), announced today the results of an extensive mouse tumor study demonstrating superiority of InNexus' DXL625 (CD20) versus Rituxan(R) in the xenograft model…

Over half of deaths in women from chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease could be avoided if they never smoke, keep their weight in check, take exercise and eat a healthy diet low in red meat and trans-fats, according to a study published in BMJ. Poor diet, lack of physical activity, obesity, alcohol consumption and smoking increase the risk of diseases including cancer and diabetes but little research has examined combinations of lifestyle factors in younger populations and women. Dr Rob van Dam and his team from the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital…

Our body is almost constantly being threatened by pathogens and cancerous cells that appear out of the blue, but our bodies put up a fight: specialized cells in the immune system smuggle small molecules (granzymes) into cancer cells and those body cells that have fallen prey to viruses. The molecules then trigger off the diseased cells' built-in suicide program. There are two possible ways in which the granzymes gain entry into the cells under attack but despite more than twenty years of research, it remained unclear as to which of these pathways is used to smuggle the lethal amount of…

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, September 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Interviewed Experts Lack Confidence in Malignant Melanoma Cancer Vaccines as a Result of Recently Published Data, According to a New Report from Decision Resources Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the malignant melanoma drug market, driven by the launch of emerging agents, will experience robust annual 12 percent growth through 2012 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan. The new Pharmacor report…

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have isolated three important genes involved in the development of a type of childhood brain cancer. The breakthrough is revealed in a study published in the British Journal of Cancer today. Researchers from the Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre at The University of Nottingham, on behalf of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), have found three genes associated with specific characteristics of ependymoma — the third most common form of childhood brain cancer. Before now, relatively little was known about the underlying biology of…

Demonstrating that despite the large number of cancer-causing genes already identified, many more remain to be found, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have linked a previously unsuspected gene, CDK8, to colon cancer. The discovery of CDK8's role in cancer was made possible by new tools for assessing the activity of specific genes, say the authors of the new study. As these tools are further improved, the stream of newly discovered cancer genes is expected to increase, providing new avenues for therapy, the authors suggest in Nature on Sept. 14. The study is noteworthy in another…

In hospitals and clinics, magnetic resonance imaging is quite common today. Clinicians like it because it shows much better images of soft tissues than computed tomography (CT) and uses no ionizing radiation. What it does use is a powerful magnetic field. Magnetic resonance tomography has been around for just over 30 years so it is much younger than something like X-ray technology(>110 years) but ordinary MRI technology uses magnetic flux densities of 1.5 and 3 tesla. A new MRI device delivered to Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Experimental and Clinical Research…

LONDON, September 11 /PRNewswire/ -- - Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Ellen DeGeneres, Leona Lewis and Jessica Alba Help Raise US$100m Diva TV will be showing the UK premiere of a Stand Up 2 Cancer one-hour special on Friday 12 September (21:00). The fundraising extraordinaire, broadcast recently across America, was hosted by the Hollywood elite including Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson, Meryl Streep, Christina Applegate and Lance Armstrong and raised over US$100m for the charity. UK women's channel Diva TV has secured rights to a one-hour highlights special of the show which features…