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For a woman, being diagnosed with breast cancer is one of the most traumatic experiences in life. Once the disease is detected the uphill climb of physical exhaustion due to medical treatment and the emotional trauma of going through the side effects of treatment begins. The earlier breast cancer is ...

Product DescriptionThis book describes a PhD research in which the regulatory sequences of IGF2 (P3 and P4 promoters) were used to induce killing of cancer cells in culture or cell of mouse and rat bladder ...

Scientists have begun to explore gene therapy as a potential candidate for breast cancer treatments. To give you a clue of what cancer gene therapy is, it's basically programming cancer cells by supplying genes. The genes enter the cancerous cells and have a direct effect on changing the malign cell ...

Product DescriptionBlood stem cell transplantation has become an established therapeutic option in the treatment of malignant diseases. At the same time molecular therapeutic approaches (i.e. gene therapy) are promising alternatives to the classical treatment of cancer. The proceedings give an overview ...

Thousands of women with family histories of breast and ovarian cancer could pay higher insurance premiums or even be denied cover altogether under new proposals from the insurance industry. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is expected to lodge an application for permission for its members to ask women whether they ...

Resveratrol is a polyphenol found in high concentration in red grapes, red wine, peanuts, and pines. Resveratrol is thought to be the reason why French people can consume large quantities of fat in their diet and remain relatively unaffected by the diseases normally associated with a high fat diet. ...

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US researchers have found that men with prostrate cancer have an increased risk of aggressive tumor if they are carriers of a gene mutation which is normally linked to breast cancer in women. This finding could have major implications in treatment options for prostrate cancer. If a patient carries the ...