Skin cancer is the type of cancer that is diagnosed and treated by a dermatologist, who decides that what kind of cancer treatment should be given to the victim of skin cancer or precancerous skin lesions. Normally, this decision is taken on the basis of cancer type, causes of skin cancer, its stage, location on the body, patient’s age, symptoms of the skin cancer and the patient’s overall health.

However the methods, generally used, are;

• Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiotherapy
• Medications
• Under Studied treatments (limited to some types)
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A single isolated gene appears that is responsible for deadly breast cancers, increasing the chances of metastasis and making cancer more resistant to chemotherapy, U.S. researchers said.

Researchers found that people with chronic breast cancers have abrupt genetic variations in a gene called MTDH, and drugs that inhibit this gene could stop the spreading and provider better chances of survival in women.

“Along with the identified metastasis gene, this gene is one of them which exact mode of action is known,” said Dr. Michael Reiss.

“This study provides the most relevant information in producing such drug that will inhibit metastasis.”

Limiting cancer’s spread is important. More than 98 percent, breast cancer patients that have not metastasis live more than five years. There are only 27 percent of patients whose cancer penetrate in other parts of the vital organs.

The team collected data of 250 patients of breast cancer to look for the genetic abnormalities and isolated the gene MTDH was hyper active or expressed in aggressive tumors.

The results of a new study show that extract from grape seed helped killing more than 75% leukemia cells within 24hrs during a laboratory test. According to some experts these findings may prove quite effective to treat blood cancers.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky discovered that this extract from grapes becomes the cause of activating a protein known as JNK. This protein normalizes the pathway of cell-signaling which becomes the cause of cells’ death.

The study has been published in the Journal Clinical Research Jan.1 issue.

“The results could be applied to find out some agents like grape seed extract in preventing and treating blood and other possible cancers,” says Xianglin Shi, the lead author of the study.