health - "cancer"

When tumor cells acquire the capacity to move around and invade other tissues, there is a risk of metastases and cancer treatment becomes more difficult. At the Institut Curie, CNRS Director of Research Philippe Chavrier and his group have just discovered how breast cancer cells break the bonds that tether them to the tumor. The basement membrane around the mammary gland is a barrier to the spread of cancer cells. Three proteins in the tumor cells transport enzymes needed to perforate this barrier, and another protein puts these enzymes in the right place.

Evening News - Scotland - July 04, 2008 RESEARCHERS have developed a treatment to help cancer patients who suffer from depression. The programme has been led by cancer Research UK and is tipped t...

RESEARCHERS have developed a treatment to help cancer patients who suffer from depression.

A British couple is making history and also stirring up controversy. They decided to have their unborn baby genetically tested to see if she is likely to get breast cancer in her lifetime.

Cancer patients from the French islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon, off the south coast of Newfoundland, say they were the last to know about breast cancer testing mistakes in the labs of Eastern health.

Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16), which has been linked to cervical cancer, can be detected in human breast milk collected during the early period after a woman delivers her baby, doctors from Finland report.

Steven D. Shnyder, Jonathan E. Mangum, and Michael J. HubbardWeb Release Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT (Article) DOI: 10.1021/pr800126n (Source: Journal of Proteome Research)

The intersection of arts and health care is on the upswing. Art therapy programs are not commonplace in the nation's 5,747 hospitals, but data from the Society for the Arts in Healthcare shows that half of the ...

The South Carolina Department of health and Environmental Control on Tuesday announced the state has allocated $2 million to expand a program that provides no-cost breast and cervical cancer screenings to low-income women, the AP/Charlotte Observer reports.The program, called the

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced additional updates to the information it uses in determining which drugs may be covered under Medicare Part B when used to treat patients undergoing cancer treatment through chemotherapy. CMS will add Elsevier Gold Standard's Clinical Pharmacology compendium to the list of Medicare anti-cancer treatment compendia.