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Tumor

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Tumor

description: An abnormal, uncontrolled growth of cells.

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 6 Documents (in Health)

Rare Pancreatic Cancer Patients May Live Longer When Treated With Radiation Therapy

Pancreatic Patients May Live Longer When Treated With Radiation Therapy Medical Medical Medical Worldwide Search / Oncology hip Funny Useful Websites Medical and Clinical Translation Details of over ... [MediLexicon - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Radiation Therapy, Oncology, Radiation, Pancreatic Cancer

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 6 Documents (in Health)

Fly paper to capture circulating cancer cells

Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor. These cells, known as circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, ... [Research & Development - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Tumor, Metastasis, Insect

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Health)

Blocking Tissue Stiffening Enzyme Could Be Key To Preventing Aggressive Cancers

A team of scientists from the US and the UK have shown that blocking an enzyme called lysyl oxidase (LOX) that causes tissue to stiffen reduces the likelihood of abnormal but non-malignant breast tissue turning into tumors, suggesting that LOX and similar ... [Medical News Today - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Enzyme, Tumor, Collagen

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Medicine)

Laser therapy worsens skin cancer: Study

High irradiances of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) can worsen skin cancer, and thus should not be used over melanomas, say researchers.Researchers from Bergen University College, Norway, studied the pain relieving, anti-inflammatory 'cold laser', finding ... [Sify - 11/20/2009]

Entities: laser therapy, Skin Cancer, Bergen University College, Irradiation, Tumor

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 13 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Health)

Cancer promoting gene identified

Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine researchers have identified a gene that may play a pivotal role in two processes that are essential for tumor development, growth and progression to metastasis. ... [News-Medical.Net - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Molecular Medicine, Molecular Genetics, angiogenesis, Metastasis, Tumor

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents (in Health)

Pain Drug May Speed Cancer Growth

8:59 AM Evidence is mounting that morphine, commonly used to manage pain, may accelerate cancer growth, but a newly-approved drug that blocks its side effects could also keep tumors from spreading, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.They said the Progenics ... [NewsMax.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: opiate, Tumor, Patrick Singleton

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Health)

Varian Medical Systems Inc

UCH introduces RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems

Two female brain tumor patients have become the first people in the south of England to be treated using a faster form of radiotherapy that extends more advanced care to more patients. RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) makes ... [News-Medical.Net - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Varian Medical Systems Inc, Radiation Therapy, Tumor

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Cancer screening: What could it hurt? A lot, actually

It seemed like a good idea at the time.In 1984, Japan began screening the urine of 6-month-old infants for neuroblastoma, the most common type of solid tumor in young children. The test was simple and could show signs of cancer long before clinical symptoms ... [Los Angeles Times - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Tumor, Mammography, Chemotherapy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 5 Documents (in Health)

BioMed News Bytes: AstraZeneca, Delcath, Unilife (UNIFF, rated BUY)

On 11/19/09, AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA for ticagrelor, an investigational oral antiplatelet treatment for the reduction of major adverse cardiac events in patients with acute coronary syndrome ... [SocialPicks - 11/19/2009]

Entities: University of South Australia Students Association, Biomed, Food and Drug Administration

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

Micro-endoscope to spot early signs of cancer on the anvil

Traditional endoscopes provide healthcare experts with the ability to look inside patients' bodies. A University of Florida engineering researcher has now taken the utility of the endoscope to a new level.They are designing micro-endoscopes capable of ... [Sify - 11/20/2009]

Entities: endoscope, Tumor, Florida Engineering Co

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Biology)

New hope for patients with liver cancer

In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization (TACE) followed by a liver transplant may significantly increase a patient's ... [News-Medical.Net - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Liver Cancer, Tumor, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, American College of Radiology, David Geffen

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Biology)

Slate writers and editors debate the ramifications of new cancer-screening guidelines.

This week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that most women starting at age 50 instead of 40. Days later, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on cervical cancer screening: Now it suggests women receive their first ... [Slate Magazine - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Mammography, John Dickerson, Daniel Engber, Emily Yoffe

Quotes

...associations between lymphatic vessels and histopathologic and clinical features such as location, shape, rate of relapse and rate of metastasis. "Non-limbal tumors with involvement of tarsus or fornix showed a tendency towards a higher [lymphatic vessel density] compared with limbal tumors" the authors said

Conjunctival malignant melanoma appears to spur lymphatic vessel proliferation [OSN Super Site - 7 hours ago]

"There really is enough data now to say your ability to detect a tumor is not that good and there is a great risk of getting unnecessary biopsies and unneeded radiation" he said. "The harms really outweigh the benefits."

Guidelines against self-exams for breast cancer ignite firestorm [Baltimore Sun - 13 hours ago]

"Cancer development and progression are multi-factor and multi-step processes that occur in a temporal manner. As mentioned above AEG-1 clearly has multiple roles in various steps of tumor progression, including tumor cell growth, insensitivity to growth-inhibitory signals, including chemotherapeutic agents, invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis" explained Fisher

Cancer promoting gene identified [News-Medical.Net - 13 hours ago]

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Blogs

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Video: Discovering the Flushing Pimp [Gothamist - 3 hours ago] The WNYC "Radio Rookies" recently went on a search for the "Flushing Pimp," whom many have consistently seen on the streets in Queens throughout the years (he's ...
Busting Rhymes In The Name Of Tea Parties [TPM Election Central - 11/20/2009] Don't call Hi Caliber a Republican rapper. He prefers conservative hip hop artist, and has lent his rhyme to the tea party movement. Cal, who wouldn't give ...
Beverlye Hyman Fead: How "Nana, What's Can... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/20/2009] I was given the worst possible diagnosis--4th stage metastasized, inoperable, uteral sarcoma. Two months to live. The first doctor told my family and ...
The normblog profile 322: Gnotalex [normblog - 11/20/2009] Gnotalex is a Canadian blogger, now living in Alberta and blogging from an attic somewhere, maybe yours. He is in his 50s. He blogs at The Blog Québécois. Why ...
Why not lower the recommended mammogram age to ... [Health Business Blog - 11/20/2009] The controversy over the recent mammogram screening recommendation from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is quite interesting. The pieces ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: Laser Therapy Worsens Skin Cancer, Pregn... [Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - 11/19/2009]
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Pituitary Tumors - Mayo Clinic [Mayo Clinic - YouTube - 11/17/2009]

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