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Quisiera saber si los peces de rio tiene mayor nutrientes que los peces del mar?

existen investigaciones que presentan los beneficios nutricionales que genera el consumo de productos del mar ademas para evitar enfermedades como el cáncer

22 October 2017 1,772 3 View

What is Mesenteric Cancer?

What is Mesenteric Cancer? What is the root cause of Mesenteric Cancer? How can we cure or prevent Mesenteric Cancer?

21 October 2017 5,830 4 View

Are patients with common fragile sites, such as FRA3B, more susceptible to cancer?

Are patients who show common fragile sites, such as FRA3B, in their peripheral blood cultures more susceptible to cancer?

12 October 2017 1,066 2 View

Which cervical cancer screening methods do you use in your country, what are the cost implications, sensitivity and specificity levels?

Finding affordable and highly reliable method for screening is key to early diagnosis which in turn will ensure elimination of the cancer

10 October 2017 3,966 3 View

What are the recent trends in pharmaceutical conamination control?

According to purewaterfreedom.com, the President's Cancer Panel (PCP) recently released its yearly report outlining the status of cancer in America. This report focuses primarily on environmental...

10 October 2017 9,885 3 View

How about a few years away with definitive cancer treatment?

I find it interesting to know the researchers' predictions about the approximate time of definitive cancer treatment.

09 October 2017 1,222 4 View

Does colonoscopy imaging have destructive effects on intestinal cancer?

Given the varitey of imaging methods available between clinical methods that are use to detect various type of cancer, so it's important to note whether these methods are aggressive or not and how...

01 October 2017 3,059 3 View

Chronic diseases are caused by (1) 'passing time' and a body not designed to live that long or (2) the maladaptive features of our lifestyle?

The most common chronic diseases and causes of death of our current population (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, cancer) are usually explained by the longer lifetime, and that during the evolution...

14 September 2017 3,969 5 View

Can ketogenic diet be used for cancer patient?

As glucose is used more and mostly by cancer cells instead of ketone bodies, so it can be helpful or not. 

11 September 2017 868 9 View

What is effect of 365nm UV LED (High-power) on intact human skin ?

I am developing a medical device (orthopedic prosthetic), during application I want to use UV curable adhesive for fixing and cavity filling. for that I am planing to use High power UV led light...

23 August 2017 8,200 7 View

How to generate Super Enhancer mediated lncRNA network to select functional modules as biomarkers?

How can we generate super-enhancer mediated lncRNA network to detect prognostic biomarkers in cancer via indication of upregulated / downregulated gene states....

10 August 2017 207 1 View

Qpcr statistical analysis

I have got ct values for Experimental gene in cancer samples, GAPDH in cancer samples, Experimental gene in control and GAPDH in control.Now I know about the double Delta Ct method. We will get...

10 August 2017 1,534 8 View

Is there any chance that somatic mutation will change to a normal gene without any mutation?

May be a general question; sometimes stupidity too.... For example, cancer is caused by somatic mutation in the genome. And treatment has been given to the patient. So what is the chance of change...

18 July 2017 7,693 4 View

How do you effectively inject cells into SCID mice via tail vein injection to develop a CML model?

I am trying to establish a cell line based xenograft model of CML in SCID mice. I tried to inject 5x10^5 K562 cells (in saline for injection) but there was considerable difficulty in injecting the...

14 July 2017 1,510 3 View

Does anyone know how can I eliminate tumor associated Fibroblasts in primary culture of human bladder tumor?.

I want to isolate and culture cancer epithelial cells from tumor.

04 July 2017 4,621 3 View

How biochemistry of Caffeine is associated with the cancers, as most of the studies shows the preventive role of it in cancer

How caffeine is associated with Cancers

19 June 2017 1,440 1 View

Nichotherapy for cancer. Is metformin suitable agent?

Metformin's anti-cancerous properties have been demonstrated in various cancer cells in vitro, such as lung, pancreatic, colon, ovarian, breast, prostate, renal cancer cells, melanoma, and even in...

17 June 2017 4,949 3 View

WHAT best method for induce cancer in prostate of Rat?and how long time for induction cacner in prostate of Rat

exercise and prostate cancer in animal model, and how long time for induction cacner in prostate of Rat

25 May 2017 1,428 3 View

Is it publication available to investigate a gene in cancer to find its relation with some known and important genes in the cancer using IHC?

If a new gene had been reported to be an oncogene, and it correlated with chemotherapy resistance, migration, proliferation, apoptosis in the cancer,to learn more about the mechanism of the gene....

11 May 2017 9,343 2 View

Are you aware that of the TRISST trail - which is looking at this also in Seminoma?

http://www.ctu.mrc.ac.uk/our_research/research_areas/cancer/studies/trisst_mrc_te24/ Over 600 patients have been recruited so far - with MRI scans

04 May 2017 4,866 3 View

Using PROC GENMOD in SAS for Poisson Regression. How to obtain predicted counts?

If you use proc genmod for a Poisson Regression for predicting (say) cancer counts from poverty rate, and then we use as the offset the natural log of the population, what exactly is obtained as...

04 April 2017 8,808 1 View

Nilotinib in Alzheimer disease?

There is someone interested about the effect of nilotinib in Alzheimer disease?

17 March 2017 5,532 5 View

What are the optimal culture conditions for propagating patient-derived glioblastoma cells?

I am trying to culture glioblastoma cells from biopsies (5-6 mm) taken from GBM patients. The tumor : background parenchyma ratio will be variable. Anyone with experience on culture conditions: 1)...

23 January 2017 9,705 3 View

Will chemotherapy work effectively in post-radiotherapy recurrences of cancer esophagus?

 In patients with cancer of the esophagus treated by external beam Radiotherapy (EBRT), there is fibrosis and at times, even stenosis. And in some patients, recurrences occur within 6 months...

06 December 2016 4,094 5 View

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