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SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah will head an international study to find out how lifestyle and other...

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Developing brains in newborns have a sizable pool of a certain type of immature progenitor cell that can...

PHILADELPHIA --(Dec. 19, 2016)-- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a novel protein pathway across several types of cancer that controls how tumor cells...

Credit: Nature Communications In the Nankai subduction zone, Japan, non-volcanic deep tremors occur down-dip of the megathrust seismogenic zone, and are observed to coincide temporally...

Bottom Line: Among women with breast cancer who received a type of chemotherapy called an anthracycline, those who had a certain genetic biomarker had a...

Bottom Line: The presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) isolated from blood samples of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma was associated with poor outcomes. Journal in...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - A routine blood test can predict how long cancer patients in palliative care will survive, researchers report at the ESMO...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - Immunotherapy with pembrolizumab has been deemed a cost-effective first line treatment for advanced melanoma patients in Hong Kong, researchers report...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - Ribociclib significantly improves progression-free survival in Asian women with advanced breast cancer, according to a sub-analysis of the MONALEESA-2 trial...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Dec. 18, 2016 - Cancer has a major impact on mental and physical wellbeing, researchers report at the ESMO Asia 2016 Congress in Singapore....

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Dec. 17, 2016 - A brain-boosting protein plays an important role in how well people respond to chemotherapy, researchers report at the ESMO Asia...

Credit: Photo: Sara Bombaci/Colorado State University It's a good thing to explore the great outdoors. But a new study led by Colorado State University and...

PHILADELPHIA - Delaying surgery after a diagnosis of uterine cancer can increase a women's risk of death, but operating too soon can be just as...

Credit: Kyle Elliott, McGill University Researchers have discovered that levels of mercury in seabirds off the coast of British Columbia have remained relatively stable over...

Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. - Mother-of-pearl or nacre (pronounced nay-ker), the lustrous, tough-as-nails biomineral that lines some seashells, has been shown to be a faithful...