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Cost-savings Of Colorectal Cancer Screening As Treatment Costs Increase
Investing in some colorectal cancer screening programs could cut future, more expensive treatment costs in half, according to a new study. The only screening program found not to be cost-saving was ...
Research Points To New Target For Stopping Colon Cancer
New research has found a drug target that suggests a potent way to kill colon cancers that resist current drugs aimed at blocking a molecule found on the surface of ...
Tumors Feel The Deadly Sting Of Nanobees
When bees sting, they pump poison into their victims. Now the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumor cells. Researchers attached the major component of bee venom to nano-sized spheres ...
Human Breast Cancer Hit For Six: Key Role For Six1 In Tumor Development And Metastasis
Researchers have provided new insight into breast cancer development using mouse models and analysis of human cells, implicating the protein Six1 as central to this ...
New Prognostic Marker For Human Breast Cancer
Elevated levels of GLI1 (glioma-associated oncogene homolog 1) protein in human breast cancer are associated with unfavorable prognosis and progressive stages of disease. Researchers found increased ...
Palliative Care Intervention For Patients With Advanced Cancer Provides Quality Of Life Benefits
Patients with advanced cancer who received a palliative care intervention focused on addressing physical and psychosocial issues and care coordination that was provided at the same time as cancer ...
Project Zero Delay Accelerates Drug's Path To Clinical Trial
A phase I clinical trial enrolled its first patient only two days after US Food and Drug Administration clearance of the experimental drug for a first-in-human cancer trial, a milestone that normally ...
New Genetic Culprit In Deadly Skin Cancer Revealed
Drawing on the power of DNA sequencing, researchers have identified a new group of genetic mutations involved in the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma. This discovery is particularly encouraging ...
New Target For Treating Breast Cancer Metastasis
Researchers have demonstrated that the protein Brk plays a role in breast cancer progression and ...
Researchers Identify New, Cancer-causing Role For Protein
The mainstay immune system protein TRAF6 plays an unexpected, key role activating a cell signaling molecule that in mutant form is associated with cancer growth, researchers ...
