British Dental Foundation Offers Free Kit To Combat Mouth Cancer

As the UK gears up for November's Mouth Cancer Action Week, free accompanying Blue Ribbon Badge Appeal kits are available for all. Campaign organisers the British Dental Health Foundation urge dental practices, doctor's surgeries, health centres hospitals and pharmacies to claim their free kit before the campaign kicks off, November 16th-22nd. Complete news at...

STUTTGART, GERMANY (UroToday.com) - The prognostic value of tumor architecture (papillary versus solid) in 1,363 patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract was investigated by 12 institutions. A papillary architecture was seen in 72.1% of radical nephroureterectomy specimens. Patients with solid architecture of the tumor had a higher tumor stage, higher grading, higher rate of positive lymph nodes and higher rate of lymphovascular invasion. Complete news at...

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Why were these results achievable? This study was planned and initiated in 1992 while Dr. Veltri was serving as Vice President & GM for Research and Development of the UroCor Inc. in collaboration with Drs. Don Coffey, Jonathan Epstein and Alan Partin of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Complete news at...

College students often spend their free time thinking about beer, but a group of Rice University students are taking it to the next level. They're using genetic engineering to create beer that contains resveratrol, a chemical in wine that's been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals. Rice's "BioBeer" will be entered in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition Nov. 8-9 in Cambridge, Mass. Complete news at...

STUTTGART, GERMANY (UroToday.com) - The value of PCA3 in urine was investigated in a prospective European trial on 463 patients who had previously undergone one or two negative prostate biopsies and who were scheduled for a re-biopsy of their prostate. In 128 patients prostate cancer was found on re-biopsy. The area under the curve was 0.658 for PCA3 compared to 0.578 for free PSA. Complete news at...