Cancer Research News: August 16 – August 28

The market value of the worldwide nanomedicine industry was $72.8 billion in 2011.
Molecular markers help predict which oral lesions will lead to cancer.
Search Chemical Patents by structure with SureChem.
Epigenetic drugs, intended to change the behavior of cancer cells by reprogramming them, are being tested.

Cancer Research News: August 1 – August 15

Three studies, from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Texas, verify that cancer stem cells drive tumor growth.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill which requires doctors to inform women who have dense breast tissue that could interfere with a mammogram’s ability to detect cancer.
Dr. Getz, Director of Cancer Genome Computational Analysis at MIT and Harvard, discusses the technologies that have made cancer genome analysis possible.
Dr. Walter Willett, Chair of Nutrition at Harvard, talks about diet and cancer prevention.

At Penn lab, blood vessels for artificial organs are created with the help of a 3-D printer
Molecular analysis of colorectal tumors could lead to targeted treatments
Lung cancer tumors may be susceptible to inhibitors of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase
Maraviroc may prevent complication of bone marrow transplants in blood cancers patients