Introduction: A main choice for cancer treatment is radiotherapy. But, the radiotherapy disadvantage is damages caused by radiation given to normal tissues/organs surrounding cancer. One way to avoid this is via increasing radiosensitization of cancer cells. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have shown sensitizing effect on cancer cells by enhancing their absorbed dose. Unlike earlier ...

Background:Leukemia is cancer of blood and bone marrow cells. In general, there are four types of leukemia: chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).  Fractal geometry can be introduced as one of the effective ways to detect this type of cancer. In this study, with introduc...

Cancer is now a global concern, and control of the function of cancer cells is recognized as an important challenge. Although many aggressive chemical and radiation methods are in practice to eliminate cancer cells, most imply severe adverse toxic effects on patients. Taking advantage of natural physical differences between cancer and normal cells might benefit the patient with more specific cy...

cancer stem cells (cscs) have been identified as rare cellular populations in many cancers, including leukemia and solid tumors. this minor subpopulation of cancerous cells is immortal tumor-initiating cells which thought to be responsible for cancer initiation, progression, metastasis, recurrence and drug/radiation resistance. low proliferative rate, high self-renewing capacity, differentiatio...

Objective(s): Many cancer cells show significant resistance to drugs that kill drug sensitive cancer cells and non-tumor cells and such resistance might be a consequence of the difference in metabolism. Therefore, studying the metabolism of drug resistant cancer cells and comparison with drug sensitive and normal cell lines is the objective of this research. Material and Methods:Metabolism of c...

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gastroenterology Section, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville...

Melanoma Research Laboratory and Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Australia Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Life Sciences Institute, Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Stem Cell Biology, University of...