Here’s proof that bowel cancer screening reduces deaths
New research led by the University of South Australia shows just how effective bowel cancer screening is in helping to …
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Cancer now leading cause of death in high-income countries – while heart disease burden persists in low-income and middle-income countries
Two reports from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study published in the Lancet and presented together at the …
Transfer of oncogene in colon cancer cells demonstrated
For years, doctors and scientists have known very little about why patients can receive drugs successfully for months, or even …
Study confirms disparities in triple-negative breast cancer diagnoses
Women of color and young women may face elevated risks of developing triple-negative breast cancers, a type of cancer that …
Maternal obesity linked to childhood cancer
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center found that …
Discovery of mechanism behind precision cancer drug opens door for more targeted treatment: Research explains how the drugs work, who else might benefit from their use
New research that uncovers the mechanism behind the newest generation of cancer drugs is opening the door for better targeted …
New way to make cancer self-destruct: Penn study finds blocking the ATF4 gene causes tumors to die from too much stress
For years, researchers have been trying to target a gene called MYC that is known to drive tumor growth in …
Unhealthy gut promotes spread of breast cancer: Disrupting gut bacteria had profound, sustained effects, making cancer more aggressive
An unhealthy, inflamed gut causes breast cancer to become much more invasive and spread more quickly to other parts of …
Immunotherapy drug found safe in treating cancer patients with HIV, study suggests: Researchers seek to break down HIV exclusions in cancer clinical trials
The results of a study led by physicians at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center showed that patients living with HIV …
Incidence rates of aggressive subtypes of uterine cancer rising, study shows
New findings from a study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, …
Potential breakthrough in understanding tumor dormancy
Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center may have uncovered a primary method through which cancer cells exist undetected in an …
A new approach to targeting cancer cells
A University of California, Riverside, research team has come up with a new approach to targeting cancer cells that circumvents …
New biomarkers associated with ‘chemobrain’ identified
Cognitive impairment associated with cancer, also known as “chemobrain,” has gained recognition as a complication of the disease and its …
Drug takes aim at cancer metastasis
Many cancers are relatively harmless at their site of origin, and it is only when they metastasize to sites like …
As if by magic: Program lights up cancer-causing mutations: LumosVar — a name inspired by Harry Potter — could help physicians provide genomic-based treatments for their patients
By conjuring the spell “Lumos!” wizards in the mythical world of Harry Potter could light up the tip of their …
Protein linked to cancer growth drives deadly lung disease: Discovery in laboratory mice suggests possible role for anti-cancer drugs in treating pulmonary fibrosis
A protein associated with cancer growth appears to drive the deadly lung disease known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to …
Cow’s milk and beef as a trigger for cancer-tumors – and researchers warn the end of excessive consumption
Make us cow’s milk and beef sick? The German cancer research center (DKFZ) warns currently facing a newly discovered pathogen …
Cow’s milk and beef cause cancer-tumors – Researchers warn of excessive consumption
Make us cow’s milk and beef sick? The German cancer research center (DKFZ) warns currently facing a newly discovered pathogen …