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Researchers reveal level of copper in tumor cells
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Small amounts of the metal copper are required by human cells to perform essential biological functions. The conclusion drawn from studies demonstrating higher copper levels in tumor cells and blood serum from cancer patients is that cancer cells require more copper than healthy cells.
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Study finds extracellular fluid association with spread of cancer
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Study revealed a unique mechanism that promotes cancer cell spread, as well as providing a foundation for future research that may eventually lead to the discovery of possible new targets to combat cancer metastasis.
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Study finds tumors suppress the development of metastases
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Researchers revealed how the original cancer focus, also called the primary tumor, can suppress the growth of the daughter tumors known as metastases.
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Cancer related Anemia should be treated on priority, suggests Doctors at A
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Gurgaon (Haryana) [India], September 6 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Anemia is a condition that affects more than half of cancer patients at diagnosis and during treatment which further impacts their quality of life on an everyday basis. Cancer patients with anemia show reduced response to radio
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Researchers develop contact lens that helps in cancer diagnosis and screen
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 12 (ANI): Researchers have developed a contact lens that can catch and identify exosomes, nanometer-sized vesicles prevalent in human fluids that have the potential to be diagnostic cancer biomarkers.
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Collagen plays an important part in breast cancer metastasis: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Darlinghurst [Australia], August 10 (ANI): Collagen type XII is essential for controlling how the tumour matrix is organised, according to a recent study from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
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Tumours change their metabolism to spread more effectively: Study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], April 17 (ANI): A new study has found that cancer cells can disrupt a metabolic pathway that breaks down fats and proteins to boost the levels of a byproduct called methylmalonic acid, thereby driving metastasis.
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Study finds tumours spread more effectively by changing their metabolism
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], April 14 (ANI): According to a new research, led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, cancer cells can disrupt a metabolic pathway that breaks down fats and proteins to boost the levels of a byproduct called methylmalonic acid, thereby driving metastasis.
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Pakistan: Sialkot incident symptom of underlying cancer, says expert
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 17 (ANI): The Sialkot incident, where the Islamist mob accused a Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana of blasphemy and then burnt his dead body, shows that what happened in Sialkot is a symptom of underlying cancer which has metastasised to di
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Research sheds light on how brain metastasis occurs
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): A recent study from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC, suggests that the region cancer spreads to in the brain may not be random, but rather, is dependent on where cancer originated in the body.
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Research shows different types of cancers likely to spread to specific bra
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Los Angeles (California) [US], September 23 (ANI): New research has shown that brain metastasis occurs when cancer in one part of the body spreads to the brain. The lifetime incidence of such metastatic brain tumours in cancer patients is between 20-45 per cent.
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Breast cancer's response to tumour stiffness might help predict bone metas
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): Cancer cells become more aggressive when exposed to tissue stiffening and that these changes persist over time, according to a new study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers.
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