Spinal Fractures Caused by Multiple Myeloma (cancer of plasma cells)—Sam’s Story Patient Sam talks about having the KYPHON® Balloon Kyphoplasty procedure for multiple spinal fractures: “The next morning I woke up, and it’s probably the best I’d felt in seven or eight months. Maybe even a year.”
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Targeting Hypoxia in Cancer Therapies: Using the Lack of Oxygen as an Advantage Reading time: 4 minutes Jessica Desamero With cancer, the environment that surrounds a tumor, or the tumor microenvironment (TME), can be just as important as the tumor itself in terms of cancer progression and drug resistance. How can this be? First, let’s […]
Read More Sexuality post gynaecological cancer treatment: a qualitative study with South African women [unable to retrieve full-text content] All women had received a gynaecological cancer diagnosis and had been treated with either surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or a combination of these …Published at Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:17:13 +0000
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Utilizing proteomics to discover novel drug targets in inflammatory conditions and cancer Recent improvements in mass spectrometric instrumentation and methodology have enabled broader implementation of proteomics, the study of proteins in a large scale, in biomedicine. New sensitive and effective proteomics methods can be applied to identify potential novel drug targets in inflammatory conditions, leukemia […]
Read More $1.7 Million Grant To Fund UAMS Myeloma Research A researcher with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will use a $1.7 million grant to find new ways to treat a deadly blood disorder. The grant from the National Cancer Institute is going to Dr. Jesus Delgado-Calle, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics at UAMS, […]
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