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    UK and Dutch scientists are reportedly studying a bacterium that has shown promise as being able to deliver cancer drugs into tumours.
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    The PSA screening test for prostate cancer is not perfect. It can indicate cancer when none is present and miss life-threatening tumours. But a new study suggests the test is more reliable in men taking dutasteride (Avodart(R)), a drug widely prescribed to shrink an enlarged prostate gland
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    photo(Reuters) - A doctor exams mammograms, a special type of X-ray of the breasts, which is used to detect tumours as part of a regular cancer prevention medical check-up at a clinic in Nice, south eastern France January 4, 2008. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard


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    Integrin signalling adaptors: not only figurants in the cancer story

    Nature Reviews Cancer 10, 858 (2010). doi:10.1038/nrc2967

    Authors: Sara Cabodi, Maria del Pilar Camacho-Leal, Paola Di Stefano & Paola Defilippi

    Current evidence highlights the ability of adaptor (or scaffold) proteins to create signalling platforms that drive cellular transformation upon integrin-dependent adhesion and growth factor receptor activation. The understanding of the biological effects that are regulated by these adaptors in tumours might be crucial for the

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    Contribution of positron emission tomography in pleural disease.

    Rev Mal Respir. 2010 Oct;27(8):e47-53

    Authors: Duysinx B, Corhay JL, Larock MP, Withofs N, Bury T, Hustinx R, Louis R

    INTRODUCTION: Positron emission tomography (PET) now plays a clear role in oncology, especially in chest tumours. We discuss the value of metabolic imaging in characterising pleural pathology in the light of our own experience and review the literature. BACKGROUND: PET is particularly useful in characterising malignant pleural pathologies and is a factor of prognosis in mesothelioma. Metabolic imaging also provides clinical information for staging lung cancer, in researching the primary tumour in metastatic pleurisy and in monitoring chronic or recurrent pleural pathologies. CONCLUSIONS: PET should therefore be considered as a useful tool in the diagnosis of liquid or solid pleural pathologies.

    PMID: 20965393 [PubMed - in process]

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