Cancer Weekly

Cancer Therapy - Researchers discover new method to treat cancer

Liver Cancer - Metastasis gene may be useful for diagnosis and treatment

Biomarkers - Several genes may be reliable markers for primary liver cancer

Breast Cancer - The tumor suppressor maspin inhibits angiogenesis in breast malignancies

Cancer Screening - Hispanic women in border states less likely to receive screening for breast, cervical cancers

Lung Cancer - Treatment improves with better timing

Abdominal Masses - Researchers present guide to evaluation and diagnosis of masses

Antiangiogenesis - Somatostatin is a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis and cancer

Anticancer Agent - Indisulam, an anticancer sulfonamide, is in clinical development

Anticancer Effect - Sodium salicylate induces ROS production and subsequent apoptosis

Antitumor Cytotoxity - CD57-T and CD56-T are different populations but DP-T cells originate from both

Bladder Cancer - Some CDKN2A gene polymorphisms in the population lower cancer survival

Brain Cancer - Melanoma and renal carcinoma metastases have higher blood volume than others

Brain Imaging - Spectroscopy can now map structure with corresponding metabolic activity

Brain Metastases - Recent advances lead to significant improvements in prognosis

Brain Tumor - Case reports: Long-term survivors of neurocristopathy-associated neuroblastoma

Brain Tumor - Malignant astrocytoma occurs 10 years after treatment of craniopharyngioma

Brain Tumor - Primitive neuroectodermal may represent an unknown paraneoplastic syndrome

Brain Tumors - Chromosomal imbalances are rare in craniopharyngiomas

Breast Cancer - Estrogen influences vascular endothelial growth factor in a biphasic manner

Breast Cancer - Histological examination is necessary to diagnose phyllodes breast tumors

Breast Cancer - Lack of physical activity may affect outcome of patients

Breast Cancer - Molecular screening discovers thousands of new genes, including BASE

Breast Cancer - Researchers study mother-child relationships within the cancer experience

Breast Cancer - Serum antibodies to lipophilin B are correlated to disease stage

Breast Cancer - Women's fears of recurrence measured

Breast Cancer Metastasis - Cerivastatin quells molecular mechanisms that cause breast cancer aggression

Breast Cancer Screening - Cancer history, insurance predict future mammograms

Breast Cancer Screening - Frequent follow-up for 'probably benign' mammograms questioned

Burkitt Lymphoma - Gamma irradiation induces Epstein-Barr virus reactivation

Burkitt Lymphoma - Mofarotene is effective alone or in combination with 2-methoxyestradiol

Cancer Biomarkers - Angiogenesis relates to recurrence in women with breast cancer

Cancer Development - SPARC highlights the importance of cell-matrix interactions in tumorigenicity

Cancer Diagnosis - Cancer has causal role in seven vascular disorders preceding cancer diagnosis

Cancer Gene Therapy - E1A sensitizes cells to TNF alpha by downregulating c-FLIP gene

Cancer Prevention - New York-Presbyterian launches new front in war on cancer

Cancer Staging - Thoracoscopic sentinel node biopsy useful in internal mammary node staging

Cancer Therapies - Patent obtained for unique form of vitamin D

Cancer Therapy - Companies announce agreement to market Novantrone

Cancer Therapy - Interleukin-12 gene therapy is a viable alternative for treating thyroid cancer

Cancer Therapy - Thrombospondins show promise as antiangiogenic therapies

Cancer Vaccine - CD4+CD25+ lymphocytes play role in immune response to melanoma antigens

Cancer Vaccine - HPV16-associated, MHC class I+ tumors more susceptible than class I- to therapy

Cancer Vaccine - Immature dendritic cell vaccine causes immune response against melanoma

Cancer Vaccine - Rapid generation of antigen-presenting cells from leukemic blasts developed

Carcinosarcoma - Gastric carcinosarcoma may progress from conventional tubular adenocarcinoma

Cerebellar Tumor - Large-cell medulloblastoma may have arrestin-like protein expression

Cervical Cancer - A new technique of laparoscopic hysterectomy may be useful in cervical cancer

Cervical Cancer - Interleukin-6 promotes gynecological malignancy by activating angiogenesis

Cervical Cancer - Local interleukin-2 therapy inhibits proliferation of HPV-associated tumor

Cervical Cancer - The E2/E6 gene ratio in papillomavirus-16 cancer can help diagnose stage

Chemotherapy - Cancer patient care can be cost-effectively improved by simple nursing changes

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia - Imatinib mesylate treatment feasible for heavily pretreated patients

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia - Gleevec is superior to traditional drug therapy for patients newly diagnosed CML

Colon Cancer - Cisplatin resistance could be defeated with gene targeting

Colon Cancer - Low dietary copper increases risk with free radical production and AP activity

Colon Cancer - NCI awards grant for human clinical trial of NCX 4016

Colorectal Cancer - Cancer survivors deliver screening message to Pennsylvania legislators

Colorectal Cancer - Family history may be useful in determining colorectal cancer risk

Colorectal Cancer - Mechanism of liganded-VDR-induction of CYP3A4 investigated

Colorectal Cancer - The human DNA methyltransferase gene DNMT1 is a target for cancer therapy

Colorectal Cancer - Two expressed enzyme levels can predict the efficacy of chemotherapy

Congenital Leukemia - Prenatal presentation supports the in utero development of congenital leukemia

DNA Research - Researchers synthesize CC-1065 analogues

Dendritic Cell Vaccine - Pancreatic cancer patient successfully treated with dendritic cell vaccine

Diabetes Survival and Mortality - Diabetes significantly increases mortality and recurrence rates in colon cancer patients

Diet and Nutrition - Delphinidin suppresses mechanisms linked to cancer metastasis and heart disease

Dietary Anticarcinogens - Selected nutrient intake from food still substandard in Linxian, China

Differential Cytotoxicity - Alpha-lipoic acid requires p27(Kip) for apoptosis of tumor cell lines

Doppler Imaging - Doppler waveform analysis is useful in diagnosing cervical lymphadenopathy

Drug Determination - Method presented for quantifying paclitaxel in plasma

Drug Discovery - Several experiments prove principle of genetically engineered mouse models

Endometrial Cancer - RU486 inhibits growth of cells by involving the NF-kappa B signaling pathway

Endometrial Carcinoma - The new human cell line EN has a TP53 mutation and a 1-day doubling time

Epithelial Ovarian Cancer - Researchers develop first mouse model

Epstein-Barr Virus - EBV not shown to be associated with breast and hepatocellular carcinoma

Ewing Sarcoma - Identification of molecular abnormalities may improve patient survival

Eye Pain/Paralysis - Tolosa-Hunt syndrome could be diagnosed instead of cancers without cranial MRI

Fibroma - Surgeons remove a cementifying fibroma from the ethmoidal sinus and cranial base

Finance - $40M line of credit established with for Genasense program

Gallbladder Cancer - Transforming growth factor beta is a strong biomarker in gallbladder cancer

Gastroenterology - COX-2 inhibitors could suppress atypical growth in a pancreatic - liver disorder

Genetic Replication - Telomeres have allelic length variation and can shorten slowly or quickly

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Arsenic trioxide enhances reverse transcription, blocks Ref1 antiviral activity

Head and Neck Cancer - A combination of thermoradiotherapy and suicide genes eradicates cancer cells

Head and Neck Cancer - Laser Doppler fluxmetry readings improve laryngeal cancer blood flow analysis

Hematology - Advances led to prospects for targeted therapy in hematological malignancies

Hematology - Angiogenesis may play a role in the pathogenesis of hairy cell leukemia