Oral Cancer News

Collaboration In The Quest To Contain Cancer

Source: forbes.com Author: Thomas Stossel This year’s Lasker Foundation annual prize for medical breakthroughs–the American version of the Nobel Prize–recognizes a breakthrough cancer treatment that has revolutionized chemotherapy, a “targeted therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia.” But more symbolic–and no doubt controversial–was to whom the prize was awarded: two academic scientists and a former drug company [...]

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Screening could lead to more potent cancer drugs

Source: nytimes.com Author: Nicholas Wade Researchers have discovered a way to identify drugs that can specifically attack and kill cancer stem cells, a finding that could lead to a new generation of anticancer medicines and a new strategy of treatment. Many researchers believe that tumor growth is driven by cancerous stem cells that, for reasons [...]

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Vitamin C may interfere with cancer treatment

Source: New York Times (nytimes.com) Author: Tara Parker-Pope Many people gobble big doses of vitamin C in hopes of boosting their immune system and warding off illness. But new research shows that in people with cancer, the vitamin may do more harm than good. Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York studied the [...]

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