Types of Cancer

A luminal epithelial stem cell that is a cell of origin for prostate cancer  

Some studies suggest that raised blood pressure may increase prostate cancer risk. We investigated associations of blood pressure with prostate cancer within the CONOR collaborative cohorts of Norway. Between 1994 and 2003, 82,098 men from ten ...  

Diabetes Health (press release)Reduced Risk of Prostate Cancer Linked to Coffee ConsumptionAmerican Journal of Hemotology and OncologyDrinking coffee may help men reduce their risk for developing prostate cancer, say researchers who presented data at the American Association for Cancer ...A Prostate Cancer Therapy Increases Risk of Diabetes and Cardiovascular DiseaseDiabetes Health (press release)Pennies for prostate cancer researchElmira...  

State Transportation Secretary H.B. "Buck" Limehouse Jr. has prostate cancer but will stay in office while deciding on his treatment options.Limehouse, 71, said Wednesday he remains physically fit and that the cancer does not appear to be in an overly aggressive stage.The Charleston native also said that he offered to resign after informing Gov. Mark Sanford about his condition a few weeks ago, but that the governor wanted him to stay on...  

Teva, OncoGenex join forces to develop prostate cancer drugFood ConsumerThe drug has received FAST Track status from the FDA for the treatment of progressive metastatic prostate cancer in combination with docetaxel. ...Teva buys rights to prostate cancer drugHa'aretzTeva Expands Innovative Pipeline with License Agreement to Develop and ...PR Newswire (press release)OncoGenex, Teva in deal for cancer therapyReutersTheStreet.com -Xconomy -Arutz...  

Examiner.comFederally funded prostate cancer screening gaining support in congressExaminer.comProvide grants to states to fund prostate cancer screenings. The average cost of a prostate cancer screening is currently $25. Provide an enhanced Medicaid ...New Website Helps Uninsured and Underinsured Screen for Prostate Cancer Using ...PR-USA.net (press release)Robotic Surgery Expert Dr. David Samadi, MD Discusses Recent Study Evaluating ...SYS...  

Cancer is driven by mutation. Worldwide, tobacco smoking is the principal lifestyle exposure that causes cancer, exerting carcinogenicity through >60 chemicals that bind and mutate DNA. Using massively parallel sequencing technology, we sequenced a  

Prostate-specific antigen velocity (PSAV), increasingly recognized as a marker of potentially lethal prostate cancer, can also predict the likelihood that a given patient's cancer is insignificant, researchers say. Reuters Health Information  

Dana-Farber scientists have discovered a compound capable of treating non-small cell lung cancers that have grown resistant to Iressa(R) and Tarceva(R). The compound (WZ4002) acts against an EGFR kinase that carries a specific structural defect.  

Suicide Risk Varies by Prostate Cancer SeverityRenal and Urology NewsMen diagnosed with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer after a workup of symptoms have a suicide rate twice that of men in the general population ...Medical Edge: Diet, health play a role in prostate cancer riskPost-BulletinNew Website Helps Uninsured and Underinsured Screen for Prostate Cancer Using ...PR.com (press release)Firmagon(R) has a Significantly Greater...  

Mesothelioma is a very rare type of cancer that develop in the outer membrane of some internal organs of the human body, it may develop in the outer membrane of the lungs which known as the pleura, may develop in the outer membrane of the internal orga...  

Pancreas is responsible for producing insulin which regulates the sugar level in the body. All those who know what diabetes is would know the importance of insulin in body (and hence the importance of pancreas). Pancreas also produces pancreatic juice ...  

Research teams led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announce the first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes. All cancers are caused by mutations in the DNA of cancer cells which are acquired during a person's lifetime. The studies, of a malignant melanoma and a lung cancer, reveal for the first time essentially all the mutations in the genomes of two cancers. Lung cancer causes around one million deaths worldwide each year: almost...  

Background: Prostate cancer cells in primary tumors have been typed CD10-/CD13-/CD24hi/CD26+/CD38lo/CD44-/CD104-. This CD phenotype suggests a lineage relationship between cancer cells and luminal cells. The Gleason grade of tumors is a descriptive of tumor glandular differentiation. Higher Gleason scores are associated with treatment failure. Methods: CD26+ cancer cells were isolated from Gleason 3+3 (G3) and Gleason 4+4 (G4) tumors by...  

Liver cancer also known as primary or metastatic hepatic carcinoma is a fairly rare form of cancer in the western world (1% of all cancers) but much more common in Africa and parts of Asia (10% to 50% of all cancers). It is much more prevalent in men a...