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Chemo combo fences in breast cancer
“Perhaps this drug could be given to prevent invasion from happening in the first place,” says Seth Corey. “This might keep the disease in check and prevent it from progressing.” NORTHWESTERN...
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Root may stem breast cancer spread
EMORY (US) — A compound from roots used in one of the world’s oldest medical systems prevents breast cancer cells from metastasizing in animals.A new study showing that withaferin A’s anti-metastatic...
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Laser tags detect prostate cancer
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — New laser technology can discriminate between cancerous prostate cells in bodily fluids from those that are healthy—and may ultimately help doctors determine when cancer will...
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Bone med: Mixed blessing for breast cancer
U. SHEFFIELD (UK) — A drug commonly used to protect bone boosts disease-free survival in postmenopausal breast cancer patients—but may have an adverse effect on younger women.The findings, published in...
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Block protein to curb melanoma’s spread
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — Melanoma develops when cells called melanoblasts experience uncontrolled growth. Now researchers have identified a protein that is key to the cells’ movement.In a new study...
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Environment may entice breast cancer to spread
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Breast cancer’s lethal spread is as dependent on a tumor’s protein-rich environment as on genetic changes inside tumor cells, new research suggests.A molecular signal in the...
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Molecule linked to late-stage breast cancer
CASE WESTERN (US) — The discovery of a molecule associated with more aggressive forms of breast cancer could point the way to potential cures.Prior to this study, published online in the Journal of...
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Blocking ‘leader cells’ may halt breast cancer
Stopping breast cancer cells from producing a key protein blocks the deadly migration of the disease to other parts of the body, a new study with mice suggests. The same strategy may also apply to the...
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Breast cancer spreads when tumors can’t ‘breathe’
Lack of oxygen inside a breast cancer tumor can trigger the chain of events that spreads the disease throughout the body, biologists say. The discovery explains how tumors produce two proteins that...
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Breast cancer more likely to spread to liver in young women
Women younger than 50 with breast cancer are more likely to develop secondary cancer in the liver or gynecological organs, research shows. A new study also finds that patients with bone metastases,...
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Contact with protein dooms traveling cancer cells
Attaching a cancer-killer protein to white blood cells annihilates metastasizing cancer cells traveling throughout the bloodstream, new research shows. Metastasis is the spread of a cancer cells to...
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Cancer cells don’t move like a ‘drunken sailor’
When cancer cells spread through the body they move quickly and efficiently, rather than, as previously thought, staggering like someone who can’t walk a straight line. The old “drunken sailor” model...
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Stop cancer from spreading without chemo
Researchers are testing a protein therapy that stops breast and ovarian cancer from metastasizing in mice. “The majority of patients who succumb to cancer fall prey to metastatic forms of the disease,”...
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‘Snail’ gene gives breast cancer the ability to move
A gene normally involved in the regulation of embryonic development allows breast cancer cells to break free and move through the body without regard to biological controls that normally restrict...
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How cancer decides to turn left or right
Scientists have compiled some of the most sophisticated data yet on the elaborate signaling networks directing highly invasive cancer cells. Think of it as a digital field guide for a deadly scourge....
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It’s deadly when cancer and nerves do the ‘waltz’
In certain types of cancer, nerve and cancer cells enter an often lethal and intricate dance where they move toward one another and eventually engage in such a way that the cancer enters the nerves....
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Osteoporosis drug protects bones from breast cancer
When breast cancer spreads, it often shows up in bone. But a drug used to treat osteoporosis appears to stop the spread, according to tests in mice. “Once cancer spreads to the bone it is very...
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Spongy ‘decoy’ lures in breast cancer cells
A small, implantable device that acts like a cancer “super-attractor” could one day give doctors earlier warnings of relapse in breast cancer patients and could even slow the disease’s spread to other...
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‘Killer cells’ seek and destroy lymph node tumors
Biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells—dubbed “super natural killer cells”—that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one purpose: destroy them to halt the onset of...
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Gene that stops tumors may spread colorectal cancer
A gene that is known to suppress the growth and spread of many types of cancer has the opposite effect in some forms of colorectal cancer. The discovery may lay the foundation for new colorectal cancer...
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