Tag: Cancer
Diagnostics, Treatments for Cancer, Heart Surgery Advanced at SPIE Medical Imaging
BELLINGHAM, Washington, and ORLANDO, Florida, USA (PRWEB) March 24, 2015 Improved computer-aided diagnostics (CAD) for detecting lung cancer got a push forward via a well-received Grand Challenge competition which culminated at the recent SPIE Medical Imaging 2015 symposium in Orlando, Florida. The symposium ran 21-27 February, and attracted 1,100 researchers, scientists, and clinicians. The […]
UC Davis Study Finds Small RNA Plays Big Role Suppressing Cancer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (PRWEB) April 02, 2015 The micro RNA miR-22 has long been known for its ability to suppress cancer. However, questions remain about how it achieves this feat. For example, which molecules are regulating miR-22, and which are miR22 targets? Researchers at UC Davis have unraveled some of these relationships, identifying several interactions […]
Oral Cancer on the Rise Due to HPV
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 18, 2015 Oral cancer among young adults is skyrocketing and the human papilloma virus (HPV) is the culprit, say researchers. New research in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that people infected with HPV are 32 times more likely to develop oral or throat cancers compared to the increased risk […]
Renaissance Science – The Physics of Social Cancer
by Internet Archive Book Images Classical Greek life science had been based upon the Golden Mean geometries associated with the harmonic movement of the Pythagorean Music of the Spheres concept. Celestial movement was also thought to use the forces of harmonic resonance to transmit evolutionary guidance information to the movement of atoms within biological systems. […]
ASCP, CAP, AMP, and ASCO Issue Draft Colorectal Cancer Molecular Marker Testing Guideline and Announce Opening of Public Comment Period
Chicago, IL, Northfield, IL, Bethesda, MD, Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) April 01, 2015 The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), the College of American Pathologists (CAP), the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today released a draft of a clinical practice guideline on the use of molecular marker testing […]