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Bone density benefit
Bone drug could help prevent the spread of breast cancer
May 15,
2008 -- Maintaining bone density could be a key to decreasing the spread of cancer in women with locally advanced breast cancer, according to research at the School of Medicine. Bones are common sites for the spread, or metastasis, of breast cancer. Scientists here found that women treated for stage II/III breast cancer who also received a bone strengthening drug were less likely to have breast tumor cells growing in their bones after three months.
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Cancer prevention
Girls, young women can cut risk of early breast cancer through regular exercise
May 13,
2008 -- Mothers, here's another reason to encourage your daughters to be physically active: Girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause compared to those who are less active, new research shows.
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Turning the heat up on tumors
Researchers find way to make tumor cells easier to destroy
May 6,
2008 -- Tumors have a unique vulnerability that can be exploited to make them more sensitive to heat and radiation, researchers at the School of Medicine report. The University radiation oncology researchers found that tumors have a built-in mechanism that protects them from heat (hyperthermia) damage and most likely decreases the benefit of hyperthermia and radiation as a combined therapy.
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Graham Colditz
Associate Director, Prevention and Control, Siteman Cancer Center
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Dr. Colditz is an Epidemiologist and Associate Director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the Niess-Gain Family Professor in Medicine, Department of Surgery, at Washington ...
Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu
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Dione Farria
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Dione Farria is Co-Director for the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) and an assistant professor of Radiology, Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Section of Breast Imaging. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology and American Board of ...
Expertise: Breast imaging, breast cancer, doctor-patient communication
Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu
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David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D.
Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology
Gutmann is the founder and director of the Neurofibromatosis Clinical Program, which is dedicated to treating the common inherited tumor predisposition syndrome, neurofibromatosis (NF). Individuals with NF have an increased risk of developing brain tumors and other cancers. As national leader in the ...
Expertise: Brain tumors, cancer genetics, neurofibromatosis, molecular genetics, neurosciences, neurology
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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Frank Yin
Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...
Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics
Direct contact: (314) 935-6164
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yin@biomed.wustl.edu
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John DiPersio
Chief of the Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Stem Cell Biology
DiPersio helped pioneer stem cell transplants and now focuses his research efforts on improving the success of bone marrow and stem cell transplants for the treatment of cancer and disorders of the blood. He is investigating the use of gene therapy to control graft versus host disease that is a main ...
Expertise: bone marrow transplantation, leukemia/lymphoma, stem cell transplantation, graft vs. host disease
Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu
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Genetic Link Tied to Smoking Addiction
Associated Press
and 256 others
April 3,
2008 -- The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of nicotine addiction and sheds more light on how genetics and lifestyle habits join forces to cause cancer.
This finding could someday lead to screening tests and customized treatments for smokers trying to kick the habit.
"This is really telling us that the vulnerability to smoking and how much you smoke is clearly biologically based," said WUSTL psychiatry professor Laura Bierut, a genetics and smoking expert who did not take part in the studies. She praised the research as "very intriguing."
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Women who undergo breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are twice as likely to develop an infection
The Times (London)
Jan. 29,
2008 -- News item on WUSTL medical research -- Women who undergo breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are twice as likely to develop an infection at the surgical site if they are given a prosthetic implant instead of their own tissue.
The study appeared in the January issue of Archives of Surgery.
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Study Says Implants Double Risk of Infection After Breast Reconstructive Surgery
The New York Times
and 27 others
Jan. 22,
2008 -- More than one in 20 patients undergoing breast surgery later developed infections at incision sites, according to a new study, a complication that was more common than thought. Study co-authors WUSTL infectious diseases professor Margaret Olsen and WUSTL plastic and reconstructive surgery professor Keith Brandt comment.
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Don't ignore your body's warning signs
MSNBC.com
Aug. 1,
2007 -- Article looks at why people tend to dismiss symptoms that can indicate a serious illness.
Research has shown that your personality can affect how you react to medical symptoms too.
A 2005 WUSTL study found that men with low overall anxiety levels were more likely to ignore symptoms of rectal cancer and delay treatment. Those with at least moderate anxiety levels, on the other hand, tended to quickly recognize symptoms such as rectal bleeding as a sign of a serious illness.
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The Telltale Tumor
Forbes
June 19,
2007 -- Many genetic tests look at DNA inside the patient. A second fast-growing field is the detection of the DNA flaws that make tumor cells grow far more rapidly than regular cells.
WUSTL oncologist Timothy Pluard changes his treatment plan in one-quarter of cases because of the tumor test.
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