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PHILADELPHIA - Sticker shock may be leading many insured Americans with cancer to forego treatment with a wide range of...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon State University scientists have developed a nanomedicine platform for cancer that can help doctors know which...

Credit: UBC/Paul Joseph A medication used to treat joint and skin conditions might also help people whose only hope of...

Credit: University of Houston A cancer diagnosis disrupts a person's life in many ways, including sexually. A study led by...

Credit: Credit: Sobolevsky lab/CUMC New York, NY (Dec. 20, 2017) -- Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have obtained the...

Ependymoma refers to a heterogeneous group of cancers that can occur at any age and is one of the most...

Credit: MIPT Press Office Biophysicists have shown that following low-dose exposure to X-rays (at 80 milligrays), stem cells remain healthy,...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 20, 2017 - Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy can be remotely monitored using their smartphone sensors and an algorithm...

AURORA, Colo. (Dec. 20, 2017) - Researchers from the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, selected...

While more than 60 percent of patients with the brain tumors called malignant gliomas enroll in hospice services, almost a...

Credit: American Chemical Society Delivering drugs specifically to cancer cells is one approach researchers are taking to minimize treatment side...

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (the Alliance), in conjunction with industry partner Exelixis, today announced that the U.S....

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina The latest generation of cancer treatments spring from the discovery that the human immune...

Scientists have found a new way to explain the hearing loss caused by cisplatin, a powerful drug used to treat...

Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research DECEMBER 19, 2017, New York -- Scientists have known since the 1980s that many cancer cells...

UC San Francisco physician-scientists have developed a test that can predict how patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) will respond...

PHILADELPHIA -- (Dec. 19, 2017) -- Researchers at The Wistar Institute have found that combining PARP inhibitors, recently approved for...

Credit: © Foto: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn When the immune system mobilizes its troops, antigen-presenting cells play an important role. They...

Credit: Kathryn Faith Blood vessels are the supply lines of the human body, bringing nutrients and oxygen to cells and...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, also known as oral tongue cancer, is an aggressive form of cancer that generally...