Cancer

A compound found in citrus oils could help alleviate dry mouth caused by radiation therapy in head and neck cancer...

GALVESTON, Texas - A collaborative research team has uncovered new information that more accurately explains how cancerous tumors grow within...

Landmark paper sets out 'unified theory' for cause of childhood leukaemia - and finds it is likely to be preventable...

Credit: SWOG/The Hope Foundation PORTLAND, OR - Twenty five years after it opened for enrollment, the landmark Prostate Cancer Prevention...

MAYWOOD, IL - A Loyola Medicine study has found that new ultrasound guidelines can reliably identify pediatric patients who should...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their collaborators have developed...

With Skin Cancer Awareness Month upon us, Colorado State University researcher Jesse Wilson is accelerating research to improve imaging and...

Credit: RUB, Marquard Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have deployed a novel infrared (IR) microscope with quantum cascade lasers in order...

The human body develops most tissue types during fetal development, in a mother's uterus. Yet one only tissue develops after...

Credit: Fearon Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved a mystery...

Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Pancreatic cancer is expected to become the second deadliest cancer in...

DURHAM, N.C. - A software tool to automatically calculate how extensively bones have been infiltrated by prostate cancer is both...

Bottom Line: A breath analysis test to diagnose esophagogastric (esophagus or stomach) cancer showed good diagnostic accuracy in a study...

Credit: CeMM/Ruth Eichner The first line of immune defense against invading pathogens like bacteria are macrophages, immune cells that engulf...

Credit: Qinghai Song, Harbin Institute of Technology in China WASHINGTON -- There is a continuing need for practical chip-based sensors...

Credit: Mitchell et al., 2018 Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have discovered that a...

PITTSBURGH, May 17, 2018 - Smoking tobacco from a waterpipe, also known as a hookah, accounted for over half of...

Different immune responses between men and women, and potential interaction with hormones might impact how men and women benefit from...

ROCKVILLE, MD - A trio of papers co-authored by four National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) scientists has been published...

CHICAGO --- The death of her mother from ovarian cancer when Dr. Sui Huang was only 12 led to her...