The second biggest cause of death among women in Indonesia after cervical cancer (cervical cancer) is breast cancer. According to data from Dharmais Cancer Hospital (2009) there were 126 cases of breast cancer per 100,000 female population.

Actually, people with breast cancer can be cured. Mortality risk could be minimized, if cancer is detected early. For that as a woman you should know the symptoms of breast cancer. Immediately consult a doctor if you have the right of the following symptoms.

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Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that develops in the thin cell walls that surround the abdominal cavity, called the peritoneum. Other types of cancer, including mesothelioma malignant pleural mesothelioma, which occurs in the cell wall that surrounds the lungs and malignant pericardial mesothelioma, which occurs in the pericardial wall of the house. peritoneal mesothelioma is the rarest form, the second of the disease and accounts for approximately 20% of cases of mesothelioma each year.

What causes peritoneal mesothelioma?

Peritoneal mesothelioma is known to be caused by exposure to asbestos. Asbestos is said to reach the abdominal wall by one of two methods. The first is through the ingestion of asbestos fibers that are processed by digestion and stay in the peritoneum. The other method is through the lungs and lymph nodes by inhaled asbestos fibers. Malignant pleural mesothelioma is also known to metastasize directly into the abdominal cavity, if disclosure is not slower.

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A better understanding of Skp2 gene and its relation to cellular senescence can lead to the development of new agents that can suppress tumor growth in certain types of cancer, researchers at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center report in the journal Nature. Journal Skp2 is involved in promoting cell cycle regulation, cell proliferation, cell growth and tumor formation, and is overexpressed in a variety of human cancers, according to lead author Hui-Kuan Lin, Ph.D., professor MD Anderson Cancer assistant molecular and cell biology.

Lin and colleagues found that inactivation oncogenes are overexpressed Skp2 after strangling cancer growth by inducing senescence – the irreversible loss of the ability of a cell to divide and grow. Harnessing the power of cellular senescence to push rapidly dividing cells in a dormant state could provide an alternative means of prevention or control of the common malignant tumors such as prostate cancer.

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Canadian researchers have discovered a previously hidden channel to attack leukemia and other cancer cells, according to a new study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The results of the University of Montreal, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital and Laval University may change doctors treat cancer patients.

“We found a door, which is present in all human beings, which enables anti-cancer agents such as bleomycin to enter the body so they can reach and attack the leukemia cells,” says lead author Dindial Ramotar , a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montreal and a research affiliate at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont.

Dr. Ramotar has begun to test his theory ten years ago with the help of yeast, which is remarkably similar to human cells. “Our discovery has increased in this model system for human cells and will soon come to bed due to the therapy of translation, he said.” We are about to test patients. ”

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