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Scientists Design A Virtual Pregnant Woman To Study Radiation's Effects
POSTED: April 29, 2008Destroying a tumor in a body with radiation poses a number of challenges and risks, especially for a pregnant woman and her fetus. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to reduce those risks by advancing computer techniques that use virtual models of the human body. Their latest research looks at ways to protect a developing...
New Treatment Offers Hope For Beating Aggressive Cancers
POSTED: April 29, 2008NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- With an 89% initial success rate in arresting or eradicating some of the most aggressive cancers, a Nashville-based treatment is being offered to the public for the first time. According to NeoPlas Innovation Director of Research Dr. Stephen Cantrell, gathering more data to validate effectiveness is imperative, but "early hum...
Researchers Report Enhanced Chemosensitivity Of Pancreatic Cancer Cells By Black Seed Component
POSTED: April 29, 2008The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute researchers today presented, at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in San Diego, CA, the potential benefits of Thymoquinone (TQ), a compound present in the oil of black seeds (Nigella sativa), in treating pancreatic cancer. For centuries, these black seeds have been consumed in Asia, ...
Egg Breakthrough Could Preserve Fertility
POSTED: April 25, 2008Scientists in Scotland yesterday revealed a major breakthrough in helping to preserve women's fertility. A team from Edinburgh University have succeeded in taking early stage follicles from a woman's ovaries and maturing them into eggs in the lab for the first time. The discovery should help women undergoing cancer treatment, or those wish...
Potential Cancer Drug Does Well In Study
POSTED: April 22, 2008BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A U.S. university study suggests the drug triphendiol causes tumor cell death in pancreatic and bile duct cancer, as well as slowing tumor growth. The study by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers led by Assistant Professor Ewan Tytler showed the drug also sensitizes tumors to chemotherapy treatments. Tytler ...
