When abnormal bone tissue is being formed by cancer cells, levels ofalkaline phosphatase increase. Therefore, high levels of this enzyme could suggest that a patient has bone metastasis. However, a high level of the enzyme is also found in growing children and in people with fractured bones tha...
This testmeasures the levels of 5'- nucleotidase (an enzyme specific to the liver). The 5'- nucleotidase level is elevated in persons with liver diseases, especially those diseases associated with cholestasis. This is disruption in the formation of, or obstruction in the flow of bile. What do...
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” At The Truth About Cancer we talk a lot about what causes cancer, and the foods that fight cancer and lower your cancer risk. Now I’m going to talk to you about known, scientifically proven, cancer causing foods that actively increa...
Over the past decade, cancer stem cells have emerged as the centerpiece of cancer research, having a major role in resistance to conventional therapy and in the metastatic spread of tumours. The authors discuss the biological complexity of this subpopula
(a) What is the relationship between the pancreas, liver, gallbladder, small intestine, spleen, and kidneys? (b) How are they affected when jaundice is present? What does a healthy therapeutic menu for a progressive degenerative disease consist of by the c...
is used as a tumor marker for ovarian cancer. A protein found on the surface of many ovarian cancer cells, blood tests to measure levels of this antigen are used to aid in diagnosing ovarian cancer, monitoring the progress of ovarian cancer treatments and detecting a recurrence of the disease...
in which the aim is to understand biological relationships through the profiling of biological systems using biochemical or high-throughput experiments such as DNA sequencing [17] or proteomics technologies (for understanding drivers of cancer, for example), and which often have yet to reach the poin...
Researchers at City of Hope® in Los Angeles studied the effects of white button mushrooms in mouse models of prostate cancer and in men under active surveillance for the disease who participated in a randomized phase II trial. In mice, the extract suppressed tumor growth and decreased the ...
A 55 y/o male presents to the clinic with multiple areas of enlarged lymph nodes and now notices oral masses under this tongue and throat. On physical exam, the APRN notes palpable nodular liver. There is a concern for a lymphoma, likely non-Hodgkin (NHL)...
Core tip: Immune system is now widely accepted as a key mechanism to prevent occurrence of cancer and intratumoral T CD8+ and CD45+ lymphocytes infiltrate has shown to be a major prognosis factor in colorectal cancer. However, immunity fail in controlling tumor growth, because of strong escape...