Oral Cancer News

Study: Feelings Don’t Alter Cancer Survival

Sheldon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:49:59 +0000

Source: Gather (www.gather.com) Author: Harvard Health Publications Many people believe that a positive outlook can improve your chances of beating disease. But is it true? It’s hard to know for sure. Clearly, people respond in a variety of ways after being told that they have a serious illness. But no one has proven that an optimistic outlook can [...]

Spit Sensor Spots Oral Cancer

Sheldon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:41:01 +0000

Source: MIT Review (www.technologyreview.com) Author: Brittany Sauser An ultrasensitive optical protein sensor analyzes saliva. For the first time, an optical sensor, developed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), can measure proteins in saliva that are linked to oral cancer. The device is highly sensitive, allowing doctors and dentists to detect the disease early, when [...]

Bold cancer therapy begins crucial trials

Sheldon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:26:57 +0000

Source: Houston Chronicle (Chron.com) Author: Eric Berger The buzz surrounding gold nanoshells, a radical new approach to treating cancer, began shortly after their creation in Houston a decade ago. The work by Rice University scientists prompted U.S. Rep. John Culberson, a nanotechnology enthusiast whose district includes Rice, to declare that cancer was “cured.” And when the National [...]

Scientists Develop Sensitive Salivary Sensor

Sheldon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:13:40 +0000

Source: Kansas City Infozine (www.infozine.com) Author: staff For people who dislike needles, medical tests that require a drop of saliva instead of a vial of blood will one day make a trip to a doctor or dentist much easier. But as scientists now construct the first of these saliva tests for early signs of cancer and other [...]

New Research Results Explain How Dormant Tumor Cells Become Active in Later Years

Sheldon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:06:58 +0000

Source: NIH News Release (www.nci.nih.gov) Author: news release Scientists using a three-dimensional cell culture system have identified a mechanism by which dormant, metastatic tumor cells can begin growing again after long periods of inactivity. The new findings indicate that the switch from dormancy to proliferative, metastatic growth may be regulated, in part, through signaling from the surrounding microenvironment, [...]

How do antioxidants work?

Sheldon — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:56:51 +0000

Source: media-newswire.com Author: K. Sandeep Prabhu Blueberries, pomegranates, green tea and dark chocolate — these are just some of the antioxidant-rich “superfoods” found in almost any supermarket today. As well as improving our general health, there is growing evidence that diets high in antioxidants may confer some protection against a long list of chronic diseases, including Alzheimer’s [...]

Targeted Exercise Improves Function, Lessens Pain in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors

Sheldon — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:51:14 +0000

Source: Abkhazia (www.abkhazia.com) Author: Ramaz Mitaishvili Progressive resistance exercise training following surgery helps reduce upper extremity pain and dysfunction in certain head and neck cancer survivors, according to Canadian researchers. “The trial,” lead investigator Dr. Margaret L McNeely told Reuters Health, “demonstrates important improvements from progressive resistance exercise training on shoulder pain and disability, upper extremity strength [...]

FDA News Impacts Cancer Patients

Sheldon — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:48:47 +0000

Source: National Anemia Action Council (www.anemia.org) Author: staff The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered specific changes for the use of erythropoeisis-stimulating agents (ESAs) to treat anemia in patients receiving chemotherapy. The label changes will state treatment should only begin when a patient’s hemoglobin level drops to 10 g/dL and removes the mention of 12 g/dL [...]

Gene Expression Profiling Identifies Genes Predictive of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Sheldon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:17:46 +0000

Source: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 10.1158/1055-9965 Authors: Chu Chen et al Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is associated with substantial mortality and morbidity. To identify potential biomarkers for the early detection of invasive OSCC, we compared the gene expressions of incident primary OSCC, oral dysplasia, and clinically normal oral tissue from surgical patients without head and [...]

Disease-Free Period Predicts Response to Salvage Therapy for Oral Cancer

Sheldon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:05:07 +0000

Source: Abkhazia (www.abkhazia.com) Author: Ramaz Mitaishvili In patients with locally recurrent carcinomas of the oral cavity and oropharynx, a disease-free interval of more than 1 year and tumor tissue negative for EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) expression predict a good response to salvage surgery. That’s the conclusion of physicians in Brazil who studied the outcomes of 111 patients [...]

Oral cancer screening at Saratoga Race Course

Sheldon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:31:16 +0000

Source: Liacars.com Author: Dave Detling The track is a place filled with tasty treats. It’s a confectionary dream and dentist’s worst nightmare. Joe Gayner is spending his Wednesday at the race course. But he’s not sitting track side. He’s on folding chair with a dentist hovering over him. With tools in hand, Gayner is being told to bite [...]

Tobacco use in baseball on the decline

Sheldon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:13:55 +0000

Source: Major League Baseball (mlb.com) Author: Mychael Urban Users remain, but rules, more awareness have made impact Baseball has taken a variety of steps to cleanse itself of the stain — literal, cultural and medical — of tobacco use, and there’s plenty of empirical evidence showing that usage, while far from completely eradicated, has decreased over the past [...]

Evaluating Prognostic Techniques for Head and Neck Cancers Following Chemotherapy and Radiation: Presented at AHNS

Sheldon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:05:42 +0000

Source: Doctor’s Guide (www.docguide.com) Author: Arushi Sinha Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration is a technique that has low specificity for diagnosis of head and neck cancers following chemotherapy and radiotherapy interventions, researchers reported here at the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) 7th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer. Lisa van der Putten, MD, Department of Otolaryngology — Head [...]

Assessing Risk for Carotid Artery Occlusion Following Surgery for Head and Neck Tumours: Presented at AHNS

Sheldon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:45:53 +0000

Source: Doctor’s Guide (www.docguide.com) Author: Arushi Sinha Use of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) may be indicated to monitor patients after skull-based surgery for head and neck tumours, according to research presented here at the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) 7th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer. Balasubramanian Balaji, MBBS, Department of Surgical Oncology, Meenakshi Mission [...]

Advexin Improves Survival in Head and Neck Cancer

Sheldon — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:13:12 +0000

Source: CancerConsultants.com Author: staff The targeted agent Advexin (p53 tumor suppressor therapy) improves survival compared with methotrexate among head and neck cancer patients with the p53 biomarkers. These results were recently presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Centennial Conference on Translational Cancer Medicine 2008: Cancer Clinical Trials and Personalized Medicine. Head and neck cancers [...]