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Credit: Silvia Morbelli, et al., San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Italy. RESTON, VA - Italian researches have demonstrated a...

IOS Press acquires StemBook

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 6, 2017 - IOS Press, an international publisher providing content for scientific, technical and medical communities,...

ESMO Asia 2017 Congress

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Nov. 6, 2017 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, is...

Younger women with advanced breast cancer needlessly excluded from treatment trials

Lisbon, Portugal: Pre-menopausal women with the most common type of advanced breast cancer are usually excluded from medical research unnecessarily,...

Liquid biopsy spots aggressive pediatric brainstem cancer earlier without surgery

Credit: Children's National Health System SAN FRANCISCO -- A particularly aggressive form of pediatric cancer can be spotted reliably by...

New techniques give blood biopsies greater promise

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Koch Institute at MIT, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital...

Study reveals large disparities in survival for patients with HPV-associated cancers

A new study found large disparities by sex, race, and age in survival for patients diagnosed with different cancers caused...

Biologics do not increase the risk of second malignancy in rheumatoid arthritis patients

November 5, 2017

SAN DIEGO - Treatment with biologics does not increase the risk of a second malignancy in rheumatoid arthritis patients who...

Colon cancer breakthrough could lead to prevention — and the foods that can help

Credit: University of Warwick Colon cancer, Crohn's, and other gut diseases could be better treated or prevented, thanks to a...

Can environmental toxins disrupt the biological ‘clock’?

Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. - Can environmental toxins disrupt circadian rhythms - the biological "clock" whose disturbance is linked to...

Mini cancer tumors grown in first-of-kind pioneering research

Credit: University of Birmingham Charity Cancer Research UK has awarded the University of Birmingham £1.5 million to fund a five-year...

Russia starts production of orthophosphoric acid based on phosphorus-32

Credit: Yandex images Tomsk Polytechnic University began commercial supply of orthophosphoric acid based on phosphorus-32 isotope, which is used for...

Nano-sized gold particles have been shaped to behave as clones in biomedicine

Credit: Guillermo González Rubio. Shaping nanometric gold particles - of the size of millionths of a millimeter - to improve...

Combined therapies increase side effects for patients with advanced breast cancer

Lisbon, Portugal: Patients with advanced breast cancer who are treated with a combination of drugs that target specific molecules important...

Queen’s University Belfast research could see exercise as a prescribed medicine

Queen's University Belfast are taking part in a global trial to test whether exercise should be prescribed to treat patients...

Scientists link pancreatic cancer survival to four genes

Alterations in four main genes are responsible for how long patients survive with pancreatic cancer, according to a new study...

ESMO media alert: Cancer research to be presented at ESMO Asia Congress in Singapore

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Nov. 2, 2017 - ESMO, the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, is pleased to announce the ESMO Asia...

Shifting bacterial communities in the stomach may influence cancer risk

Credit: Ed Uthman via Flickr Different changes to the microbial community of the stomach may explain why related conditions are...

Bacteria in the gut modulates response to immunotherapy in melanoma