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Researchers find new lung cancer biomarkers
According to the cancer stem cell theory, cancer stem cells or tumor-initiating cells promote tumor growth and metastasis. A team of Singaporean researchers have linked the stem cell surface Read more...
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Researchers find new lung cancer biomarkers
According to the cancer stem cell theory, cancer stem cells or tumor-initiating cells promote tumor growth and metastasis. A team of Singaporean researchers have linked the stem cell surface Read more...
Biomarkers in feces could replace colonoscopies
Thanks to research perform by veterinarians, unpleasant colonoscopies could possibly be relegated to the barbaric past. University of Missouri researchers, including those at the College of Read more...
Scientists find possible target to eliminate colorectal cancer
Scientists think they have found the Achilles Heel for colorectal cancer. It's in a marker called ABCB5 and, according to researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, if you target and eliminate it, Read more...
Colon cancer biomarker helps demo potential of a common drug
Using a well-known colorectal tumor tissue biomarker, researchers were able to track the efficacy of a commonly used gout drug against precancerous polyps that frequently go on to trigger lethal Read more...
Salix licenses new cancer detection tech in $130M pact
Salix Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay up to roughly $130 million for the licensing rights to a new imaging technology that can be used to spot precancerous lesions in the colon. Doctors currently Read more...
New DNA tests aim to detect colon cancer early
A new generation of DNA tests could offer early detection of colon cancers as well as precancerous polyps--even those not picked up by a colonoscopy. Researchers began measuring mutations in DNA a Read more...
