POSTS TAGGED AS cancer

Visualizing Cancer Cells in Vivo

Cancer gets its name from the crab because of its resemblance to a mass with many legs. Surgical resection [MORE]

Looking for Cancer with a Flashlight

It is a flashlight of sorts, but a more accurate description is an endoscope that emits short bursts of [MORE]

She Donated Her Genome to Science

Known only as “W115,” a 115 year old woman-before her death she was the oldest known living person-had her [MORE]

Implantable Tumor Monitor

Inside an implantable device about the size of a thumbnail, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have placed [MORE]

“MoleMate” Handheld Dermatology Device

Earlier this fall, the US FDA approved a hand held siascopy device, made by the Canadian firm MedX Health [MORE]

“Hormone Fingerprints” for Cancer

Adrenal gland cancer is relatively rare, but often deadly because it usually has spread before detection.  Moreover, today’s tests [MORE]

Biomarker for Earlier Detection of Ovarian Cancer

Epidemiologists have long suspected a link between infertility and ovarian cancer, and researchers at Rush University Medical Center may [MORE]

New Insight into Breast Cancer Biology

Researchers at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia have found that breast cancer cells secrete hydrogen peroxide, thereby creating oxidative [MORE]

A Urine Test for Prostate Cancer

More that 215,000 men in the US will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, and a significant number [MORE]

New Discovery in Cell Death: Necroptosis

Cells become cancerous when they loose their ability to undergo programmed cell death (known as “apoptosis”).  Until recently, apoptosis [MORE]

Magnetic Hyperthermia

Fascination with magnets has launched thousands of claims for their health benefits-in treating pain, asthma, allergies, depression, chronic fatigue, [MORE]

Synthetic Trachea Implanted

Two months ago, a clinical team at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm implanted a synthetic trachea in a 36 [MORE]

Fox Chase’s Cancer Genome Institute

Life Technologies, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)-formed from a 2008 merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems-has reached an agreement with [MORE]

Surviving Cancer, Facing Bankruptcy

Not long ago, opponents of healthcare reform asserted that the US had the best healthcare system in the world [MORE]

Google-Earth View of Bladder’s Interior

Saying that he wants to give urologists “a Google Earth view of the bladder, University of Washington engineering professor [MORE]

General Medicine Links

The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance providing educational resources for patients and families.

Plying the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound

Using a headset to beam low-intensity ultrasound over the entire brain, for an hour’s duration, Perfusion Technology (Andover, MA) [MORE]

Aging vs. Immortality

If cancer cells represent a kind of immortality (having lost their inability to die naturally), then it is not [MORE]

More Horsepower for Molecular Imaging

Last month, four of the UK’s leading research institutions-the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, King’s College London, and [MORE]

Robot for IV Cancer Therapy

Getting the right mix of chemotherapy drugs, properly diluted, in a sterile IV bag, without contamination, can be a [MORE]