Cancer
New radiation therapy technique aims to preserve sexual function
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 12, 2018 - "Will treatment make me impotent?" It's a question on the minds...
Modern blood cancer treatments require new approach for monitoring, reporting side effects
---Treatment changes including the advent of targeted and immune therapies have dramatically improved survival for blood cancers, but new report...
Dialogue toward a human-relevant paradigm for biomedical research echoed in South America
Credit: Heloisa Machado Rio de Janeiro (June 10, 2018) --Since ancient times we have been interested in knowing about our...
A call to neuroscientists to help reveal root causes of chemobrain
A substantial fraction of non-central nervous system cancer survivors, especially those who have received chemotherapy, experience long-lasting cognitive difficulties, including...
Newly-approved therapy provides improved quality of life for midgut neuroendocrine tumor patients
TAMPA, Fla. - Midgut neuroendocrine tumors are a rare type of cancer that develops in the small intestine and colon....
Long periods of viral suppression shown to prevent cancer in aging HIV population
1. Long periods of viral suppression shown to prevent cancer in aging HIV population Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2094 URLs go live when...
Researchers identify new gene changes that point to elevated prostate cancer risk
As the result of a six-year long research process, Fredrick R. Schumacher, PhD, a cancer epidemiology researcher at Case Western...
Children’s Tumor Foundation Drug Discovery Awards announced
The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), the largest non-governmental funder of neurofibromatosis (NF) research, and PLOS ONE, a leading peer-reviewed scientific...
Key cancer-fighting gene’s secret weapons revealed
Credit: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute The findings revealed that a special group of genes that function within the...
A new therapy proves effective against brain metastasis
A study published in Nature Medicine by a team led by Manuel Valiente, head of the Brain Metastasis Group at...
Study points to possible treatment target for aggressive liver cancer in kids
CINCINNATI - A protein in the cell nucleus already targeted therapeutically for several types of cancer has now been linked...
Improving Americans’ diets could save billions in health-related costs
What we eat has important implications for our health--and for what we spend on healthcare. New research suggests improving the...
Moffitt Partners with top cancer centers to endorse goal of eliminating HPV-related cancers
TAMPA, Fla. - Nearly 80 million Americans - one out of every four people - are infected with human papillomavirus...
Ex-smokers might be better off with high rather than low nicotine e-cigs
Vapers using low rather than high nicotine e-cigarettes may be using their devices more intensely, potentially increasing the risk of...
Threat of malaria left its mark on the immune system in people with African ancestry
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Flickr, Public Domain Mark 1.0 In a new study published June...
Does cancer increase risk of diabetes?
Bottom Line: Developing cancer was associated with increased risk for later diabetes in a nationally representative sample of the Korean...
UH Cancer Center partners with nation’s top cancer centers to endorse goal
Nearly 80 million Americans - one out of every four people - are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV). And of...
Older breast cancer patients in England less likely to survive
Older women diagnosed with breast cancer in England are less likely to survive their disease than those in Belgium, Poland,...
Colorado study suggests new combination treatment against relapsed head and neck cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The five-year survival rate for locally-advanced head and neck cancer is only 46 percent,...
Excess zinc in muscles contributes to wasting syndrome in cancer
NEW YORK, NY (June 6, 2018)--It's estimated that nearly one-third of all cancer deaths are caused not by the cancer...
