Cancer Vaccine Week articles from December 2003

Cancer Vaccine Week archives from December 2003

Hpr6.6 protein mediates cell death from oxidative damage in MCF-7 breast cancer.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hpr6.6 protein mediates cell death from oxidative damage in MCF-7 breast cancer. "Reactive oxygen species (ROS) cause cell death and are associated with a variety of maladies, from trauma and...

Genetic and epigenetic alterations as hallmarks of the intricate road to cancer.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genetic and epigenetic alterations as hallmarks of the intricate road to cancer. "Despite the clonal origin of most tumors, their tremendous heterogeneity suggests that cancer progression springs...

14-3-3 Sigma positively regulates p53 and suppresses tumor growth.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 14-3-3 sigma positively regulates p53 and suppresses tumor growth. According to published research from the United States, "The 14-3-3 sigma (sigma) protein, a negative regulator of the cell cycle, is a...

Comparative transductions of breast cancer cells by three DNA viruses.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Comparative transductions of breast cancer cells by three DNA viruses. "Defining the ideal vectors to transduce breast cancer using viruses is currently under intense preclinical evaluation,"...

Tumoral immune resistance based on tryptophan degradation by enzyme.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have found evidence for a tumoral immune resistance mechanism based on tryptophan degradation by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase. According to a study from Belgium, "T lymphocytes undergo...

Farnesyltransferase inhibitors in AML and myelodysplastic syndromes.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Farnesyltransferase inhibitors in AML and myelodysplastic syndromes. According to a study from the United States, "Farnesyltransferase inhibitors were initially developed as Ras inhibitors as they...

Two CD95 tumor classes with different sensitivities to antitumor drugs.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two CD95 tumor classes with different sensitivities to antitumor drugs. According to recent research from the United States, "CD95 type I and II cells differ in their dependence on mitochondria to...

EZH2 is a marker of aggressive breast cancer.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- EZH2 is a marker of aggressive breast cancer. According to a study from the United States, "The Polycomb Group Protein EZH2 is a transcriptional repressor involved in controlling cellular memory and has...

Choline phospholipid metabolism: A target in cancer cells?
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Choline phospholipid metabolism: A target in cancer cells? According to a study from the United States, "The experience of treating cancer over the past several decades overwhelmingly demonstrates that...

Drosophila genetics can be a screening model for metastasis.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Drosophila genetics can be a screening model for metastasis. "Cancer metastasis is a complex process involving many genes and pathways. This complexity hinders the identification of molecules...

Free radicals mediate cardiac toxicity induced by adriamycin.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Free radicals mediate cardiac toxicity induced by adriamycin. "Anthracycline antibiotics, including adriamycin (ADM), are widely used to treat various human cancers, but their clinical use has been...

KCl cotransport is an important modulator of cervical cancer growth and invasion.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- KCl cotransport is an important modulator of cervical cancer growth and invasion. According to a study from Taiwan, "Cervical cancer is a major world health problem for women, but the pathophysiology of...

Acid pH affects the distribution of chemotherapeutic agents in vitro.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Acid pH affects the distribution of chemotherapeutic agents in vitro. "Resistance to anticancer chemotherapies often leads to regional failure, and can be caused by biochemical and/or physiological...

Motility of colon cancer cells: modulation by CD44 isoform expression.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Motility of colon cancer cells: modulation by CD44 isoform expression. According to recent research from Canada, "The invasion of cancer cells at primary tumor sites and their migration during...

Multivitamin use and colorectal cancer incidence in a U.S. cohort.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Multivitamin use and colorectal cancer incidence in a U.S. cohort. According to a study from the United States, "Multivitamins contain several nutrients, including folic acid, that are hypothesized to...

Biopharma company announces third quarter 2003 financial results.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GenVec, Inc., (GNVC), a biopharmaceutical company, announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2003. GenVec reported higher revenues and a lower net loss through the first...

Detection of p53 mutations in precancerous gastric tissue.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Detection of p53 mutations in precancerous gastric tissue. According to a study from England, "Intestinal-type gastric cancer is preceded by gastritis and intestinal metaplasia. There is...

Genomic instability and cancer.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genomic instability and cancer. "Tumorigenesis can be viewed as an imbalance between the mechanisms of cell-cycle control and mutation rates within the genes. Genomic instability is broadly...

Physiological and molecular genetic alterations in head and neck cancer.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physiological and molecular genetic alterations in head and neck cancer. According to published research from the United States, "Despite improvements in the diagnosis and management of head and neck...

Bone marrow evaluation in pediatric patients.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bone marrow evaluation in pediatric patients. According to a study from the United States, "Pediatric bone marrow evaluation is often challenging, especially for pathologists with more experience...

Chromosomal translocations in human malignant hematopoiesis.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chromosomal translocations in human malignant hematopoiesis. According to recent research published in the journal Pathologie Biologie, "The improvement of molecular biology techniques and human genome...

The proto-oncoprotein c-Fos negatively regulates hepatocellular tumorigenesis.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The proto-oncoprotein c-Fos negatively regulates hepatocellular tumorigenesis. "Hepatocytes adopt an invasive and metastatic phenotype caused by the cooperation of transforming growth factor...

Chromosomal abnormalities in secondary myelodysplastic syndromes and leukemias.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chromosomal abnormalities in secondary myelodysplastic syndromes and leukemias. According to a study from France, "Secondary leukemias group essentially together myelodysplastic syndromes and acute...

Cytogenetic findings in adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cytogenetic findings in adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia. "During a 10-year period (1992 - 2001) in the region of Southern Denmark, 337 patients aged 15 years or older (range 16 - 93 years,...

Forty-seven children with from chronic myeloid leukemia over a 25-year period.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Forty-seven children with from chronic myeloid leukemia over a 25-year period. "To determine the diagnostic characteristics, blast crisis status, appropriate treatment, overall patient survival, and...

Proteomic approaches to biomarker discovery in lung cancers by SELDI technology.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Proteomic approaches to biomarker discovery in lung cancers by SELDI technology. According to recent research published in the journal Science in China Series C - Life Sciences, "The purpose of the...

Cytogenetic abnormalities in malignant lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cytogenetic abnormalities in malignant lymphoma and multiple myeloma. "During the past few years, cytogenetic analysis of malignant proliferations contributed to the resolution of complex...

The role of erythropoietin in the anemia of myelodysplastic syndrome.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The role of erythropoietin in the anemia of myelodysplastic syndrome. "Although erythropoietin (EPO) deficiency is not responsible for the anemia of myelodysplasia, pharmacologic doses of...

BRAF and K-ras gene mutations in human pancreatic cancers.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- BRAF and K-ras gene mutations in human pancreatic cancers. "We investigated the frequency of BRAF mutations in human pancreatic cancer specimens to determine its role in the development of...

The Kruppel-like transcription factor 6 gene in sporadic pituitary tumors.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Kruppel-like transcription factor 6 gene in sporadic pituitary tumors. "The oncogenes and/or tumor suppressor genes which may be involved in the transformation process for the vast majority of...

Genetic mapping of allelic loss on chromosome 6q in prostate carcinoma.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genetic mapping of allelic loss on chromosome 6q in prostate carcinoma. According to a study from Japan, "A number of genetic events have been reported in prostate carcinogenesis, including frequent...

No association of germline alteration of MSR1 with prostate cancer risk.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- No association of germline alteration of MSR1 with prostate cancer risk. "The macrophage scavenger receptor 1 gene (MSR1) was recently identified as a candidate susceptibility gene for hereditary...

Molecular subclassification of renal tumors and discovery of diagnostic markers.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Molecular subclassification of renal tumors and discovery of diagnostic markers. According to a study from the United States, "We analyzed the expression profiles of 70 kidney tumors of different...

Low monoamine oxidase B in peripheral organs in smokers.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Low monoamine oxidase B in peripheral organs in smokers. According to recent research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, "One of the major mechanisms for...

The quest for a tumor suppressor gene phenotype.
December 1, 2003... 2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The quest for a tumor suppressor gene phenotype. According to published research from Canada, "Our current definitions of the tumor suppressor gene (TSG) have been guided by the identification of the...

MAGE-4 peptide recognized by cytolytic T lymphocytes on tumor cells.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new MAGE-4 antigenic peptide is recognized by cytolytic T lymphocytes on HLA-A1 tumor cells. "'Cancer-germline' genes such as those of the MAGE family are expressed in many tumors and in male...

New cancer vaccine trial to begin at New York hospital.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The first patient was recently vaccinated at New York University (NYU) Medical Center with a specific cancer vaccine designed to prevent tumor recurrences in patients who have already had a kind of...

Discovery of cytochrome p450 1B1 inhibitors as new promising anticancer agents.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cytochrome p450 1B1 inhibitors have been called new promising anticancer agents. According to published research from South Korea, "Human cytochrome P450 (CYP)1B1 is a major enzyme for carcinogenic...

IL-4-Pseudomonas exotoxin protein used for malignant glioma therapy.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Interleukin-4-Pseudomonas exotoxin chimeric fusion protein is effective for malignant glioma therapy. "Human malignant glioma cell lines, primary cell cultures, and tumor specimens derived from...

Tailored antibody enhances biological activity targeting tumor cells.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tailored antibody enhances biological activity targeting tumor cells. According to a study from the United States, "vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptors have been implicated...

Farnesyltransferase inhibitors in AML and myelodysplastic syndromes.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Farnesyltransferase inhibitors in AML and myelodysplastic syndromes have been investigated. According to a study from the United States, "Farnesyltransferase inhibitors were initially developed as...

14-3-3 Sigma positively regulates p53 and suppresses tumor growth.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 14-3-3 Sigma positively regulates p53 and suppresses tumor growth. According to published research from the United States, "The 14-3-3sigma (sigma) protein, a negative regulator of the cell cycle,...

Comparative transductions of breast cancer cells by three DNA viruses.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Transductions of breast cancer cells by three DNA viruses compared. "Defining the ideal vectors to transduce breast cancer using viruses is currently under intense preclinical evaluation,"...

Hpr6.6 protein mediates cell death from oxidative damage in MCF-7 breast cancer.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hpr6.6 protein mediates cell death from oxidative damage in MCF-7 breast cancer. "Reactive oxygen species (ROS) cause cell death and are associated with a variety of maladies, from trauma and...

Integrated clinico-genomic models for breast cancer outcomes prediction.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Outcome predictions are made for integrated clinico-genomic models for breast cancer. According to recent research from the United States, "Genomic data, particularly genome-scale measures of gene...

Choline phospholipid metabolism: A target in cancer cells?
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Choline phospholipid metabolism as a target in cancer cells is studied. According to a study from the United States, "The experience of treating cancer over the past several decades overwhelmingly...

Drosophila genetics can be a screening model for metastasis.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Drosophila genetics can be a screening model for metastasis. "Cancer metastasis is a complex process involving many genes and pathways. This complexity hinders the identification of molecules...

KCl cotransport is an important modulator of cervical cancer growth and invasion.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- KCl cotransport is an important modulator of cervical cancer growth and invasion. According to a study from Taiwan, "Cervical cancer is a major world health problem for women, but the...

Acid pH affects the distribution of chemotherapeutic agents in vitro.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Acid pH affects the distribution of chemotherapeutic agents in vitro. "Resistance to anticancer chemotherapies often leads to regional failure, and can be caused by biochemical and/or physiological...

Motility of colon cancer cells: modulation by CD44 isoform expression.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Modulation of colon cancer cell motility by CD44 isoform expression have been investigated. According to recent research from Canada, "The invasion of cancer cells at primary tumor sites and their...

Multivitamin use and colorectal cancer incidence in a U.S. cohort.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Multivitamin use and colorectal cancer incidence is described in a U.S. cohort. According to a study from the United States, "Multivitamins contain several nutrients, including folic acid, that are...

NSAIDs inhibit colorectal neoplasia.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- By inducing apoptosis, NSAIDs inhibit colorectal neoplasia. "Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) inhibit colorectal neoplasia, an effect that is associated with their ability to induce...

Detection of p53 mutations in precancerous gastric tissue.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- p53 Mutations have been seen in precancerous gastric tissue. According to a study from England, "Intestinal-type gastric cancer is preceded by gastritis and intestinal metaplasia. There is...

Genetic and epigenetic alterations as hallmarks of the intricate road to cancer.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genetic and epigenetic alterations are hallmarks along the intricate road to cancer. "Despite the clonal origin of most tumors, their tremendous heterogeneity suggests that cancer progression...

Genomic instability and cancer.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Tumorigenesis can be viewed as an imbalance between the mechanisms of cell-cycle control and mutation rates within the genes. Genomic instability is broadly classified into microsatellite instability...

Genomic microarrays in human genetic disease and cancer.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Performance characteristics of genomic microarrays in human genetic disease and cancer have been presented. According to a study from the United States, "Alterations in the genome that lead to...

Physiological and molecular genetic alterations in head and neck cancer.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physiological and molecular genetic alterations in head and neck cancer reviewed. According to published research from the United States, "Despite improvements in the diagnosis and management of...

Bone marrow evaluation in pediatric cancer patients.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bone marrow was evaluated in pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies. According to a study from the United States, "Pediatric bone marrow evaluation is often challenging, especially for...

Chromosomal translocations in human malignant hematopoiesis.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chromosomal translocations seen in human malignant hematopoiesis. According to recent research published in the journal Pathologie Biologie, "The improvement of molecular biology techniques and...

The proto-oncoprotein c-Fos negatively regulates hepatocellular tumorigenesis.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The proto-oncoprotein c-Fos negatively regulates hepatocellular tumorigenesis. "Hepatocytes adopt an invasive and metastatic phenotype caused by the cooperation of transforming growth factor...

Chromosomal abnormalities in secondary myelodysplastic syndromes and leukemias.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chromosomal abnormalities seen in secondary myelodysplastic syndromes and leukemias. According to a study from France, "Secondary leukemias group essentially together myelodysplastic syndromes and...

Cytogenetic findings in adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers report cytogenetic findings in adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia. "During a 10-year period (1992-2001) in the region of Southern Denmark, 337 patients aged 15 years or older (range...

Forty-seven children with chronic myeloid leukemia over a 25-year period.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Taiwan reviewed cases of pediatric chronic myeloid leukemia over a 25-year period. "To determine the diagnostic characteristics, blast crisis status, appropriate treatment, overall...

Proteomic approaches to biomarker discovery in lung cancers by SELDI technology.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Proteomic approaches to biomarker discovery in lung cancers by SELDI technology have been reported. According to recent research published in the journal Science in China Series C - Life Sciences,...

Cytogenetic abnormalities in malignant lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cytogenetic abnormalities analyzed in malignant lymphoma and multiple myeloma. "During the past few years, cytogenetic analysis of malignant proliferations contributed to the resolution of complex...

IL-13 cytotoxin used for malignant glioma therapy.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Interleukin-13 receptor-directed cytotoxin for malignant glioma therapy is being applied clinically. According to recent research from the United States, "Central nervous system malignant...

Disseminated B-cell lymphoma in animal model is controlled by [superscript]213Bi-antiCD74.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Disseminated B-cell lymphoma in animal model is reduced, cured by [superscript]213Bi-antiCD74 monoclonal antibody therapy. According to published research from the United States, "a...

The role of erythropoietin in the anemia of myelodysplastic syndrome.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The role of erythropoietin in the anemia of myelodysplastic syndrome has been repoted by researchers in the U.S. "Although erythropoietin (EPO) deficiency is not responsible for the anemia of...

BRAF and K-ras gene mutations in human pancreatic cancers.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- BRAF and K-ras gene mutations reported in human pancreatic cancers. "We investigated the frequency of BRAF mutations in human pancreatic cancer specimens to determine its role in the development of...

Patent issued protecting interleukin-9 activity-reducing vaccine technology.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genaera Corp. (GENR) announced issuance by the United States Patent and Trademark Office of patent number 6,645,486 covering claims for reducing the activity of interleukin-9 (IL-9) comprising...

The Kruppel-like transcription factor 6 gene in sporadic pituitary tumors.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pituitary tumors analyzed for the Kruppel-like transcription factor 6 gene. "The oncogenes and/or tumor suppressor genes which may be involved in the transformation process for the vast majority of...

E-selectin up-regulation allows for targeted drug delivery in prostate cancer.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- E-selectin up-regulation allows for targeted drug delivery in prostate cancer. According to a study from the United States, "We have used the Eos Hu03 GeneChip array, which represents over 92% of...

Genetic mapping of allelic loss on chromosome 6q in prostate carcinoma.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genetic mapping of allelic loss on chromosome 6q in prostate carcinoma has been reported. According to a study from Japan, "A number of genetic events have been reported in prostate carcinogenesis,...

Molecular aspects and gene expression profiling in prostate cancer.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Molecular aspects and gene expression profiling in prostate cancer have been delineated. According to recent research published in the journal Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development,...

No association between germline alteration of MSR1 and prostate cancer risk.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- No association found between germline alteration of MSR1 and prostate cancer risk. "The macrophage scavenger receptor 1 gene (MSR1) was recently identified as a candidate susceptibility gene for...

The prolyl isomerase Pin1 is a novel prognostic marker in human prostate cancer.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The prolyl isomerase Pin1 is a novel prognostic marker in human prostate cancer. "Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common male cancer in the United States. A major challenge that remains is to...

Thyroid carcinomas of the follicular epithelium: Tumor markers and oncogenes.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tumor markers of thyroid carcinomas of the follicular epithelium have been analyzed. According to a study from Spain, "Several genes control cell growth, differentiation, and apoptosis. Any...

Low monoamine oxidase B in peripheral organs in smokers.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Low monoamine oxidase B has been reported in peripheral organs in smokers. According to recent research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, "One of the...

The quest for a tumor suppressor gene phenotype.
December 8, 2003... 2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review tumor suppressor gene phenotype quest. According to published research from Canada, "Our current definitions of the tumor suppressor gene (TSG) have been guided by the...

Immunotherapy of AMLs: Development of vaccines and cell therapy approaches.
December 15, 2003... 2003 DEC 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review the development of vaccines and cell therapy approaches for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemias in a recent issue of the Bulletin du Cancer. "Prognosis of acute...

Vaccinal cell therapy in melanoma showing promise.
December 15, 2003... 2003 DEC 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaccinal cell therapy is showing promise for the treatment of melanoma. "Cell vaccination therapy in melanoma has now an around 15-year experience. Initially, the treatment was based on the use of...

Antitumor immunity initiated by antigen collocation in same vaccine.
December 15, 2003... 2003 DEC 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antitumor immunity was effectively elicited by collocation of antigen with encoding gene in the same vaccine. "Peptide and naked DNA vaccines, aimed at generating strong cytotoxic T lymphocyte...

Dendritic cell-based immunotherapy in multiple myeloma reviewed.
December 15, 2003... 2003 DEC 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A scientist reviews dendritic cell-based immunotherapy in multiple myeloma in a recent issue of the journal Leukemia and Lymphoma. According to published research from the United States, "Most...

Progenitor cell involvement predicts response to induction chemotherapy in AML.
December 15, 2003... 2003 DEC 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Progenitor cell involvement predicts response to induction chemotherapy in AML, researchers say. "In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), involvement of early progenitor cells may predict poor response...