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Cell type switch helps colon cancer evade treatment, study suggests

Human colon cancers contain two populations of cancer cells, one at the tumor edge in which the MAPK pathway is highly active (indicated by green staining and the white arrowhead), and one in the cent... read more

Cancer and Diet 101: How What You Eat Can Influence Cancer

In the long term, this can lead to the growth of abnormal cells ... may help fight cancer. One 30-day study found that 4 grams of curcumin daily reduced potentially cancerous lesions in the colon by 4... read more

Some cancer patients could be spared from chemotherapy if blood test trial proves successful

“We currently give what we call mop-up chemotherapy, or insurance-type ... can avoid chemotherapy. It would be a huge improvement on their quality of life.” “We need to wait and be patient, but the re... read more

Most People Avoid Them, But Here's One Way Grape Seeds May Benefit Your Health

Cancer treatment often involves chemotherapy and other toxic drugs, but a recent study again suggests hope of an organic approach ... In this study, we showed that grape seed extract not only kills co... read more

What If We Really Knew Where To Get The Best Cancer Care: The Prostate As Case Study

Martin describes the pros and cons of two treatment options: surgery to remove the prostate, or radiation to kill cancer cells in the gland ... started with the most common types of cancer: lung, pros... read more

Biologists identify key step in lung cancer evolution

MIT biologists have now identified a major switch ... another cell type that's receiving the niche cues and behaves like a stem cell." While Wnt has been found to drive tumor formation in some other c... read more

Polymer antibodies efficiently target and eliminate cancer cells

Synthetic polymer nanoparticles, or nanoMIPs, bind to cell surface ... of the study is the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). This protein is overexpressed in many types of tumors associated wit... read more

Green for the win! Kale, broccoli may help prevent colon cancer

LONDON: Eating green leafy vegetables such as kale, cabbage as well as broccoli could help ... "This suggests that even without genetic risk factors, a diet devoid of vegetable matter can lead to colo... read more

Early Tumor Shrinkage in Colorectal Cancer Suggests Long-Term Cetuximab Benefit

The patients analyzed for the study included ... chemotherapy combination treatment. The current results provide further evidence that early tumor shrinkage is an indication that a patient with wild-t... read more

Cancer 'Vaccine' Rids Body of Multiple Cancer Types -- in Mice

A new study in mice suggests ... cells leave the tumor, they only seek out cells from that specific cancer, Levy said. So far, the researchers were able to eliminate four types of cancer in the mouse ... read more