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Monday, January 5, 2009

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The Key to Cannibalistic Cancer Cells

Written by: Matt Palmquist, Friday 02 January 2009 - 14:43 PM comments0 Comments

A major problem in treating ovarian and breast cancers is the reawakening, sometimes years later, of dormant cancer cells that survive the initial treatment.

Coffee, Cancer Link Not So Strong After All

Written by: Michael Todd, Monday 13 October 2008 - 16:52 PM comments0 Comments

Our Michael Haederle suggested awhile back that coffee might be the elixir of life, which frankly struck us as rather obvious given the way it raises us from the dead every morning.

Monkey See, Monkey Brew

Written by: Tom Jacobs, Wednesday 08 October 2008 - 12:19 PM comments0 Comments

Coffee can be good for you. But what about monkey spit?

Finding The Smallest Cancers Ever Detected

Written by: Matt Palmquist, Friday 03 October 2008 - 10:22 AM comments0 Comments

A new magnetic resonance imaging procedure can spot breast cancer very early in mice, finding the smallest cancers ever detected by MRI.

Muskrat Methuselahs May Cure Cancer

Written by: Matt Palmquist, Thursday 25 September 2008 - 16:26 PM comments0 Comments

Small rodents with long lifespans - such as the squirrel, chipmunk and muskrat -- have evolved a previously undiscovered anti-cancer mechanism that seems to be different from any found in humans or other large mammals, according to a new study in the journal Aging Cell.

Clearing the Fog of "Chemobrain"

Written by: Matt Palmquist, Tuesday 09 September 2008 - 14:38 PM comments0 Comments

A new study from West Virginia University has found that injections of an antioxidant, N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), can prevent the memory loss that is sometimes induced by chemotherapy drugs used to treat breast cancer.

The Sun Is Bad For You; The Sun Is Good For You

Written by: Rob Kuznia, Saturday 30 August 2008 - 00:00 AM comments1 Comments

Despite mixed messages, there may be a way to have your sunscreen and reap the vitamin D, too.

Shrinking Brain Tumors with Drugs and Pumps

Written by: Matt Palmquist, Friday 22 August 2008 - 11:02 AM comments0 Comments

Drugs used to restrict a specific fatty acid in the brains of rats with glioblastoma-like tumors dramatically shrank tumors and reduced new blood vessel growth, prolonging survival, according to the cover story of the August Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.

ED Drugs Break Through Blood-Brain Tumor Barrier

Written by: Amy R. Ramos, Monday 18 August 2008 - 13:35 PM comments0 Comments

Although it's unlikely to be incorporated into the ubiquitous marketing campaigns for erectile dysfunction drugs, a significant off-label use of the medications may have been identified by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In a laboratory study conducted on rats, the research team used erectile dysfunction drugs to increase…

Big Doses of Vitamin C Shrink Tumors

Written by: Matt Palmquist, Tuesday 12 August 2008 - 13:08 PM comments0 Comments

Large doses of vitamin C shrink tumors by about 50 percent in mice with brain, ovarian and pancreatic cancers, according to a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.