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Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON -- new genetic-based model may explain how a common form of early-stage breast cancer ...

Tumor suppressor gene variants identified as cancer ‘double whammy’ for leukemia patients

Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Newly identified germline variations in a key tumor suppressor gene predispose ...

Female night shift workers may have increased risk of common cancers

Bottom Line: Night shift work was associated with women having an increased risk of breast, skin, and gastrointestinal cancer, according ...

Tumor suppressor gene variants identified as cancer ‘double whammy’ for leukemia patients

Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Newly identified germline variations in a key tumor suppressor gene predispose ...

Researchers detect a loophole in chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment

Credit: Tissino et al., 2018 A team of researchers in Italy and Austria has determined that a drug approved to ...

Researchers detect a loophole in chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment

Credit: Tissino et al., 2018 A team of researchers in Italy and Austria has determined that a drug approved to ...

Don’t give up now — keeping your New Year’s resolutions could reduce cancer risk

The New Year is an excellent time to make resolutions for a healthier lifestyle - but by the end of ...

Don’t give up now — keeping your New Year’s resolutions could reduce cancer risk

The New Year is an excellent time to make resolutions for a healthier lifestyle - but by the end of ...

Cancer mortality in the US continues decades-long drop

ATLANTA -January 4, 2018-The cancer death rate dropped 1.7% from 2014 to 2015, continuing a drop that began in 1991 ...

Small-cell lung cancer patients face barriers to receiving standard-of-care treatment

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Despite decades of clinical research establishing chemotherapy with thoracic radiation as the standard-of-care for the ...

Small-cell lung cancer patients face barriers to receiving standard-of-care treatment

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Despite decades of clinical research establishing chemotherapy with thoracic radiation as the standard-of-care for the ...

Specific microbes in digestive tract can boost success for cancer immunotherapy

In the Jan. 5, 2018 issue of Science, researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine show that specific strains of ...

Mechanism for resistance to immunotherapy treatment discovered

BOSTON - An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn't help ...

A new therapeutic target to fight metastasis in ovarian cancer

Credit: IDIBELL Researchers of the Molecular Signaling in Cancer group of the Oncobell program (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute - IDIBELL) ...

Breast size dissatisfaction affects self-examination

New research shows that women who are dissatisfied with the size of their breasts are less likely to carry out ...

Breast size dissatisfaction affects self-examination

New research shows that women who are dissatisfied with the size of their breasts are less likely to carry out ...

SNMMI publishes appropriate use criteria for somatostatin receptor PET imaging

RESTON, Va. - The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has published appropriate use criteria (AUC) for somatostatin ...

Dirt-dwelling microbe produces potential anti-melanoma weapon

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, research at Oregon State ...

Dirt-dwelling microbe produces potential anti-melanoma weapon

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, research at Oregon State ...

Lymphedema after cancer treatment — special issue of Rehabilitation Oncology presents research update