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Last update: : 01.11.2005
Is it really always genes or environmental influences that are responsible for increased incidences of cancer cases in individual families? Dr. Justo Lorenzo Bermejo and Professor Dr. Kari Hemminki…
Press releaseLast update: : 18.10.2005
An increasing number of cancer patients are cured today by radiation therapy – alone or in combination with surgery or chemotherapy. At the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches…
Press releaseLast update: : 13.09.2005
When parents smoke, they lay the foundations for their child to develop cancer in later life. In particular, exposure to secondhand smoke in childhood increases the risk of nasal cancer. In addition,…
Press releaseLast update: : 16.08.2005
More safety for cancer patients during surgery is provided by a new software which enables physicians to plan and perform surgical operations with enhanced precision. Computational molecular…
Press releaseLast update: : 08.08.2005
Cancer is often caused by defects in the information pathways that regulate cell division. Dr. Michael Boutros, head of the Boveri group “Signaling and Functional Genomics" of the German Cancer…
Press releaseLast update: : 01.08.2005
Methods for early detection of cancer should be simple and reliable. In the case of prostate cancer, the S100A9 protein appears to be equal or even superior to prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a…
Press releaseLast update: : 29.07.2005
To select the optimal therapeutic strategy for malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, it is crucial to be able to discriminate, with high reliability, tumor stages and chances of…
Press releaseLast update: : 14.07.2005
Tumor cells often silence growth-inhibiting genes by chemically tagging specific building blocks of DNA. DKFZ scientists have now synthesized a substance that reverses these alterations.
Press releaseLast update: : 01.07.2005
Minute bodies in the nucleus, the nucleoli, have the function of stress sensors and give the starting signal for the cellular suicide program (apoptosis) when there is too much strain. This has been…
Press releaseLast update: : 22.06.2005
T cells with a regulatory function within the immune system respond differently to apoptosis triggers than T cells that mount the actual defense reaction (effector T cells). This has now been shown…
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