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Enterprise Security Today BPM Today CRM Daily Sci-Tech Today Business Report FreeNewsFeed XML/RSS Download Zone Free Newsletters FIND: March 29, 2006Updated Daily HomeInnovationHealthDiscoverySpaceScienceEnvironmentComputingNewsFactor MagazineBlog Bytes Health Research Spots Factor in Cancer's Spread March 29, 2006 11:40AM An estimated one million Americans with tumors develop bone metastases every year, and these metastases sometimes trigger massive pain, says lead researcher Dr.

Josef Penninger.

"If we are correct, one might be able to interfere with metastases, and with this (drug) might allow women with breast cancer, for instance, to have a decent life with less metastases and less cancer pain," he adds.

Researchers have identified a molecule that appears to play a critical part in how cancers spread to bones.

Although the experiments were done in mice, the Austrian researchers hope the finding will lead to new treatments that can keep cancers such as breast, prostate and skin cancer from spreading to bone.

They found that a protein in bone called RANKL communicates with a receptor in breast, prostate and skin cancer cells, telling them to migrate.

Fortunately, there's already an available drug designed to block RANKL ...

... "Lung cancer is the most lethal form of cancer in the United States," said Senator Hagel, whose state will be the first in the nation to initiate a state-wide screening program for lung cancer.

"Over 900 Nebraskans will die from lung cancer in 2006.

We have made great advances in breast and We must commit ourselves to making the same progress in lung cancer." Senator Clinton noted that lung cancer is now killing nearly twice as many women as breast cancer, with a disturbing increase of lung cancer in non- smoking women.

"Despite the gains we have made in cancer treatment and research, we have made far too little progress in addressing lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths in our nation.

As part of our overall battle against cancer, we must improve our research, treatment and detection efforts in order to increase the five-year survival rate beyond 15%," Senator Clinton said.

Congressman Shaw, himself a lung cancer survivor, has been the leading spokesman for lung cancer in the House of Representatives.

Recently he sent a letter signed by 73 members of both parties of the House asking the National Cancer Institute about their oft-quoted 2015 target for "ending the pain and death from all cancer." "That cannot be done," said Shaw, "if we continue to under-fund research and early diagnosis in the biggest cancer killer." Fenton concluded, "Our tipping point has begun and we look forward to cont...