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SAN ANTONIO - Higher risk of recurrence for black women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer compared with white women...

Credit: IST Austria/Reiner Riedler Metastasis, the process in which a tumor spreads to other parts of the body, is responsible...

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute La Jolla, Calif., December 7, 2017 - A new study led by researchers...

Guidelines are not being followed to ensure that breast cancer screening of high risk women, such as those with a...

Credit: SWOG/The Hope Foundation In the largest, most rigorous study of its kind, acupuncture was found to significantly reduce the...

Credit: ©ESMO LUGANO-GENEVA, Dec. 7, 2017 - A new combination therapy for the first line treatment of advanced non-squamous non-small-cell...

SAN ANTONIO - Contrast-enhanced digital mammography is comparable to breast MRI in evaluating residual breast cancer after neoadjuvant endocrine therapy...

The drug metformin, typically prescribed to treat type 2 diabetes, keeps breast cancer cells from developing multiple drug resistance (MDR)...

Credit: Lancaster University Analysis led by Lancaster University researchers suggests that spontaneous humour is used and appreciated by people with...

On December 4-5, 2017, the finale of the international scientific contest Dream Chemistry Award was held in Prague, Czech Republic,...

BOSTON - Investigators at Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Tufts CTSI, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard...

Credit: University of Houston A cancer researcher at the University of Houston is set to deliver an unprecedented look at...

When researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil treated human melanoma cell lines with a synthetic compound...

Queen's University researchers are using magnetic fields to influence a specific type of bacteria to swim against strong currents, opening...

Credit: Christopher McNair, Thomas Jefferson University (PHILADELPHIA) - The retinoblastoma (RB) susceptibility gene was the first gatekeeper gene discovered for...

A new study published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine finds that more activity during inpatient recovery predicted lower risk of...

Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that testing skin cancer patients' blood for tumour DNA could help predict the chances...

Researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, are focusing their efforts on...

Credit: Jacqueline Morris and Jaehee Lee, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA -- DNA sequences between mitochondria within...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Eleven leading medical societies - including the American College of Rheumatology, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society...