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According to Dr. Ila R. Singh, an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah, for the first time we have analyzed prostate cancer and normal prostate tissue and found cancers are much more likely to have [the XMRV virus] ... It was also more likely to be present in more aggressive tumors, Singh said. We found it in 20 percent of the least aggressive tumors and over 45 percent of the most aggressive tumors.
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deCODE genetics today announced that a team of its scientists and academic colleagues from Finland, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States have today published the discovery of four novel single-letter variations in the sequence of the human genome (SNPs) conferring increased risk of prostate cancer. This is the sixth set of risk factors for prostate cancer that deCODE has found.
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have destroyed prostate cancer tumors in mice by injecting them with specially-coated, miniscule carbon tubes and then superheating the tubes with a brief zap of a laser.
More conservative treatment, or watchful waiting of localized prostate cancer may be why outcomes have improved, U.S researchers said.
Individuals diagnosed with specific diseases may represent subpopulations with heightened sensitivity to environmental compounds. This may be due to their disease-mediated molecular milieu and/or the interference of environmental compounds with pharmaceutical drug targets, investigators in the United States report.
The impact of ligand binding on nuclear receptor (NR) structure and the ability of target cells to distinguish between different receptor-ligand complexes are key determinants of the pharmacological activity of NR ligands. However, until relatively recently, these mechanistic insights have not been used in a prospective manner to develop screens for NR modulators with specific therapeutic activities, investigators in the United States report.
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers has found a strong association between the common sexually transmitted infection, Trichomonas vaginalis, and risk of advanced and lethal prostate cancer in men.
The metabolic syndrome has been suggested as a unifying link between a 'western' lifestyle and an increased prostate cancer risk. We assessed the associations of components of the metabolic syndrome with prostate cancer in a prospective cohort based on 29,364 Norwegian men followed up for prostate cancer incidence and mortality from 1995-1997 to the end of 2005 in the second Nord Trondelag Health Study (HUNT 2), scientists in Bristol, the United Kingdom report.
A new study, 'Prostate cancer: a newly discovered route for testosterone to reach the prostate: Treatment by super-selective intraprostatic androgen deprivation,' is now available.
A new type of stem cell discovered in the prostate of adult mice can be a source of prostate cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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