Health News

(The Wistar Institute) Researchers at the Wistar Institute have found multiple receptors on the outside of the body’s killer immune system cells which they believe can be selectively targeted to keep the cells in superb infection and disease-fighting condition. In a study published online Nov. 30 in Nature Immunology, the researchers describe their discovery of seven different receptors on T cells that can tamp down immune responses during a prolonged battle with an infectious pathogen or against developing cancer.

Read more

Filed under: General Health News
Tags: cancer, General Health News, Online

Related posts

• Vitamins C and E and beta carotene again fail to reduce cancer risk in randomized controlled trial (0)
  Women who took beta carotene or vitamin C or E or a combination of the supplements had a similar risk of cancer as women who did not take the supplements, according to data from a randomized controlled trial in the December 30 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Read more [tags] General Health [...]
  
  
• Study shows younger women with endometrial cancer can safely keep ovaries, avoid early menopause (0)
  (American Society of Clinical Oncology) A study published online Jan. 26, 2009 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows no survival difference between premenopausal women with early-stage endometrial cancer whose ovaries were left intact during cancer surgery compared with those whose ovaries were surgically removed. Read more [tags] General Health News [/tags]
  
  
• Study of placenta unexpectedly leads to cancer gene (0)
  (University of Rochester Medical Center) University of Rochester Medical Center scientists discovered a gene mutation that impairs the placenta and also is influential in cancer development, according to a study published online Dec. 16, 2008, in the journal PLoS Biology. Read more [tags] General Health News [/tags]
  
  
• Sequential and alternating chemotherapy and radiation equally effective in larynx cancer therapy (0)
  Larynx cancer patients treated with alternating cycles of chemotherapy and radiation have similar outcomes to patients treated with chemotherapy followed by radiation, according to data from a randomized controlled trial in the January 27 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Read more [tags] General Health News [/tags]
  
  
• Repairing DNA damage: Researchers discover critical process in cancer treatment (0)
  (University of Montreal) According to a new study published in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, scientists from the Universite de Montreal and the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre have identified a new biochemical pathway which controls DNA repair. Read more [tags] General Health News [/tags]