Dual Role In Breast Tissue For Protein Involved In Leukemia

A protein known to play a role in growth of some types of leukemia appears to have a mixed function in breast cancer development, say researchers.
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Novel Epigenetic Markers Of Melanoma May Herald New Treatments For Patients

Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer, diagnosed in more than 50,000 new patients in the United States annually. As incidences continue to rise, the race is on to find the genetic and cellular changes driving melanoma, and to devise new means of detection and treatment. In new a study, scientists have found new epigenetic markers that will help develop more effective treatment strategies to fight this disease.
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Purple Sweet Potato Means Increased Amount Of Anti-cancer Components

Purple sweet potatoes have high contents of anthocyanin, and anthocyanins have been epidemiologically associated with a reduced cancer risk.
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DNA Mutation That Occurs At Beginning Point Of T-cell Lymphoma Identified

Researchers have identified a key mechanism that causes chromosomes within blood cells to break -- an occurrence that marks the first step in the development of human lymphoma.
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How Much Is Life Worth? The $440 Billion Question

The decision to use expensive cancer therapies that typically produce only a relatively short extension of survival is a serious ethical dilemma in the United States that needs to be addressed by the oncology community, according to a commentary published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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RNA Snippet Suppresses Spread Of Aggressive Breast Cancer

Low levels of a tiny RNA fragment in cells are associated with metastatic breast cancer in humans and increases the aggressive spread of breast cancer in mice, according to researchers. Measuring levels of this so-called microRNA in cancer cells may more accurately predict the likelihood of metastasis, the spread of cancer to other parts of the body that accounts for 90 percent of cancer-related deaths.
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Scientists Tackle Viral Mysteries

A recent study focuses on the intersection of these two scientific puzzles, resulting in new discoveries about how one herpes virus known to cause cancer may reactivate when the infected cell senses another type of virus entering it.
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