Cancer
World's smallest wearable device warns of UV exposure, enables precision phototherapy
Smaller than an M&M and thinner than a credit card, device can optimize treatment of neonatal jaundice, skin diseases, seasonal...
Experts in immunotherapy, medical physics, cervical cancer named 2018 ASTRO Gold Medalists
Patricia Eifel, M.D., FASTRO, David Jaffray, Ph.D., and Ralph Weichselbaum, M.D., awarded the highest honor bestowed upon ASTRO membersCredit: ASTRO/Adam...
Drug dramatically reduces risk of dangerous blood clots in cancer patients
Strategy could prevent clots in more than 50,000 cancer patients per year in the US and CanadaCredit: The Ottawa Hospital...
New cancer immunotherapy approach turns immune cells into tiny anti-tumor drug factories
In lab and mouse experiments, UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers developed a method to leverage B cells to...
Realistic exposure study supports the use of zinc oxide nanoparticle sunscreens
New risk assessment may help allay safety concerns, according to an important study conducted in Australia, reported in the Journal...
Russian scientists developed a new drug for cancer diagnostics and treatment
Russian researchers announced the development of a combined action drug based on ionizing radiation and bacterial toxin.Credit: Evgeny Pchelkin Russian...
A new therapeutic target for metastatic and resistant prostate cancers
The study suggests an innovative, combined therapeutic approach that would include the administration of a NSD2 inhibitor drug together with...
St. Jude research into leukemia, sickle cell and other blood disorders presented at ASH
The 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology will include research from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital that...
Patients with cancer are more at risk of complications following heart procedure
Research led by Keele University suggests that patients with cancer who undergo a common heart procedure have worse short-term clinical...
Immunotherapy keeps some advanced head and neck cancer patients alive for over three years
A new immunotherapy can greatly extend the lives of a proportion of people with advanced head and neck cancer, with...
App helps breast cancer survivors improve health after treatment
Study patients achieved goals with real-time access to dietitians and physiciansCredit: Houston Methodist Breast cancer survivors who used a smartphone...
Breast cancers enhance their growth by recruiting cells from bone marrow
Credit: Raz et al., 2018 Researchers in Israel have discovered that breast tumors can boost their growth by recruiting stromal...
Sugar supplement slows tumor growth and can improve cancer treatment
Mannose sugar, a nutritional supplement, can both slow tumour growth and enhance the effects of chemotherapy in mice with multiple...
Screening for colorectal cancer spares male patients from intense treatments
Colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer in the world. Every year in Finland, approximately 3,000 new...
A protein that makes skin cancer cells more invasive
Credit: Yanagi T. et al., Cancer Research, November 2, 2018 Loss of a protein called TRIM29 promotes cancer cell invasion...
As vaping increased in popularity, use of cigarettes declined
WASHINGTON -- A comprehensive analysis examining the relationship between vaping and smoking among youth and young adults finds that cigarette...
Treating a rare genetic disorder that causes colon cancer in children
Credit: University of Houston A University of Houston pharmaceutical scientist is developing a new drug which could bring relief to...
Cutting the legs off cancer
Credit: Wellcome Images CC-BY-NC-ND http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/38960 Melanoma skin cancer tumors grow larger and are more likely to metastasize due to interactions...
The Pancreatic Cancer Collective awards $7 million in ‘New Therapies Challenge’ grants
Credit: Pancreatic Cancer Collective, Stand Up To Cancer, Lustgarten Foundation The Pancreatic Cancer Collective, the strategic partnership of the Lustgarten...
Researchers stop ‘sneaky’ cancer cells in their tracks
Credit: Tabdanov/Provenzano, University of Minnesota A new study by University of Minnesota biomedical engineers shows how they stopped cancer cells...
