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Credit: Anupama Lakshmanan/Caltech In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a...

A virus injected directly into the bloodstream could be used to treat people with aggressive brain tumours, a major new...

Scientists have shown how alcohol damages DNA in stem cells, helping to explain why drinking increases your risk of cancer,...

Credit: The Ottawa Hospital The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT), a non-profit based in Stamford, Connecticut, dedicated to funding...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New results from a clinical trial involving more than 900 military veterans at high risk for keratinocyte...

Credit: Lima et. al. 2017, Hormuth et. al. 2015 Attempts to eradicate cancer are often compared to a "moonshot" --...

PITTSBURGH, PA -- Long-term follow-up results of the NRG Oncology trial NSABP B-31 have shown that the addition of trastuzumab...

Credit: University of California, Davis RESTON, Va. - The new total-body PET/CT scanner could revolutionize our understanding and treatment of...

(Pharmamar) PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) has announced the initiation of the re-examination process by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for Aplidin® (plitidepsin)...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Jan. 02, 2018 - The most common type of tumor found in the kidney is...

ARLINGTON, Va. - Jan. 2, 2018 - Scientists and the nation's scientific enterprise remain largely invisible to the public, according...

A new Tel Aviv University study pinpoints the inverse correlation between a known oncogene -- a gene that promotes the...

ITHACA, N.Y. - An unfortunate church dinner more than 100 years ago did more than just spread typhoid fever to...

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that experimental diabetes drugs can make cancer cells more vulnerable to traditional chemotherapy...

PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) has announced today a commercialization and distribution license agreement with Megapharm Ltd. for the marine-derived anticancer drug Aplidin®...

(New York, NY - January 2, 2018) --Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that normal immune cells called macrophages, which reside...

1. Risk-based lung cancer screening may save more lives than current USPSTF guidelines Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M17-2067 URLs go live when the...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Clinical trials of new anti-cancer therapies have often excluded patients whose disease has spread...

Credit: University of Missouri School of Medicine According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 12,000 women in...

Credit: Sarah Pack/Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC As e-cigarettes become more popular, fewer people are taking up smoking traditional cigarettes....