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Routine PSA prostate cancer tests not recommended

Healthy men shouldn’t get routine prostate cancer screenings, states updated advice from a U.S. government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good. Despite strenuous protests from urologists, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is sticking by a contentious proposal it made last fall. A final guideline published Monday states there is little if any evidence that PSA testing saves lives — while too many men suffer impotence, incontinence, heart attacks, occasionally even death from treatment ...

Pancreatic cancer may be detected with easy intestinal probe

ScienceDaily (May 21, 2012) — By simply shining a little light within the small intestine, close to that organ’s junction with the pancreas, doctors at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida have been able to detect pancreatic cancer 100 percent of the time in a small study. The light, attached to a probe, measures changes in cells and blood vessels in the small intestine produced by a growing cancer in the adjoining pancreas. This minimally invasive technique, called Polarization Gating Spectroscopy, ...

Cancer treatment delivery: International Space Station’s microgravity platform

ScienceDaily (May 5, 2012) — Humanity is on the constant search for improvements in cancer treatments, and the International Space Station has provided a microgravity platform that has enabled advancements in the cancer treatment process. The oncology community has a recent history of using different microencapsulation techniques as an approach to cancer treatment. Microencapsulation is a single step process that forms little liquid-filled, biodegradable micro-balloons containing various drug solutions that can provide better drug delivery and new medical treatments for ...

Low oxygen levels could drive cancer growth, research suggests

ScienceDaily (May 3, 2012) — Low oxygen levels in cells may be a primary cause of uncontrollable tumor growth in some cancers, according to a new University of Georgia study. The authors’ findings run counter to widely accepted beliefs that genetic mutations are responsible for cancer growth. If hypoxia, or low oxygen levels in cells, is proven to be a key driver of certain types of cancer, treatment plans for curing the malignant growth could change in significant ways, stated ...

Ryan O’Neal To Undergo Pioneering Cancer Treatment

Actor Ryan O’Neal will undergo pioneering cancer treatment in California in a bid to beat the disease.The Love Story star has been diagnosed with stage two prostate cancer and recently revealed he is also battling skin cancer on his face and on-going chronic leukaemia.And he’s hoping a physician in Ventura can literally freeze his biggest health threat “to death”.Appearing on U.S. news show Access Hollywood, the actor says, “It’s a new method that has been developed… and they freeze the ...

Georgia May Jagger and Pixie Geldof front Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign

London models Georgia May Jagger and Pixie Geldof have come together to promote this year’s Fashion Targets Breast Cancer merchandise. BY Olivia Bergin | 30 April 2012 Following in the fashionable footsteps of Kate Moss, Twiggy, Claudia Schiffer and Sienna Miller, young London models Georgia May Jagger and Pixie Geldof are fronting this year’s Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign.

Anxiety increases cancer severity in mice, study shows

ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2012) — Worrywarts, fidgety folk and the naturally nervy may have a real cause for concern: accelerated cancer. In a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, anxiety-prone mice developed more severe cancer then their calm counterparts. The study, published on-line April 25 in PLoS ONE, found that after hairless mice were dosed with ultraviolet rays, the nervous ones — with a penchant for reticence and risk aversion — developed more tumors ...

N.S. woman urges using colon cancer screening kit

Dawn Whitehead used the colorectal cancer screening kit and physicians found a cancerous polyp. (CBC) A Nova Scotia woman is urging people to use a screening kit for colorectal cancer and states the kits may have saved her life. Dawn Whitehead, who lives in Hammonds Plains, stated there is no history of colorectal cancer in her family and she was not exhibiting any symptoms when she decided to use the screening kit that had arrived in her mailbox late last ...

Link between estrogen and tobacco smoke: Estrogen may help promote lung cancer

ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) — The hormone estrogen may help promote lung cancer — including compounding the effects of tobacco smoke on the disease — pointing towards potential new therapies that target the hormone metabolism, according to new research presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012 on April 3 by scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. “This research provides the link between estrogen and tobacco smoke,” states study author Jing Peng, PhD, postdoctoral associate in the lab of ...

Scientists reprogram cancer cells with low doses of epigenetic drugs

ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 2012) — Experimenting with cells in culture, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have breathed possible new life into two drugs once considered too toxic for human cancer treatment. The drugs, azacitidine (AZA) and decitabine (DAC), are epigenetic-targeted drugs and work to correct cancer-causing alterations that alter DNA. The researchers stated the drugs also were found to take aim at a small but hazardous subpopulation of self-renewing cells, sometimes referred to as cancer stem cells, ...