Cancer – fighters can live more

Bacteria - Fighters Against Cancer

200 years ago the observation was already described that tumors sometimes shrink when cancer patients undergo bacterial infections. This is the basis for bacteria‐mediated cancer therapy an alternative therapeutic approach of growing interest. Several bacterial strains are able to colonize solid tumors after systemic administration; a few even induce tumor reduction. Apparently, the virulence o...

New reals: Can live with them, can live without them

Judah and Shelah [3] proved that countable support iterations of proper forcings preserve the ω-bounding property (see 2.2 here). In his book Proper and Improper Forcing [8, XVIII §3] Shelah gave several cases of general preservation theorems for proper countable support iterations (the proofs tend to be hard to digest, though). In this paper we deal with “Case A”. A simplified version of this ...

Can these bones live?

Is testicular cancer an occupational disease of fire fighters?

BACKGROUND A previous investigation showed an increased risk of testicular cancer among fire fighters in Wellington City, New Zealand, during the 1980s. Other studies of fire fighters had not identified testicular cancer as an occupational disease. METHODS This was an historical cohort study of mortality and cancer incidence in all paid New Zealand fire fighters, from 1977 to 1995. RESULTS ...

Estrogen and breast cancer: can less mean more?

Estrogen and Breast Cancer: can less mean more? Marc D Bullock, Andreia M Silva & George A Calin a Cancer Sciences Unit; University of Southampton School of Medicine; Southampton, UK b Division of Surgery; University Hospital Southampton; Southampton, UK c Department of Experimental Therapeutics; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Houston, TX USA d Instituto de Investigação em S...