Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Newly identified germline variations in a key tumor suppressor gene predispose individuals to develop leukemia as...
Credit: Tissino et al., 2018 A team of researchers in Italy and Austria has determined that a drug approved to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)...
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Despite decades of clinical research establishing chemotherapy with thoracic radiation as the standard-of-care for the initial management of non-metastatic small-ce..
In the Jan. 5, 2018 issue of Science, researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine show that specific strains of commensal bacteria - the swarms...
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, research at Oregon State University shows. The molecule is...
Jan. 4, 2018 - Individuals who have been treated for cancer are at risk for a complication called lymphedema: swelling in the body region where...
BOSTON - An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn't help most patients. Now, two research...
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers of the Molecular Signaling in Cancer group of the Oncobell program (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute - IDIBELL) - proCURE Program (Catalan Institute...
RESTON, Va. - The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has published appropriate use criteria (AUC) for somatostatin receptor PET imaging in neuroendocrine...
New research shows that women who are dissatisfied with the size of their breasts are less likely to carry out regular self-examinations to screen for...
ATLANTA -January 4, 2018-The cancer death rate dropped 1.7% from 2014 to 2015, continuing a drop that began in 1991 and has reached 26%, resulting...
The New Year is an excellent time to make resolutions for a healthier lifestyle - but by the end of the first week of January,...
Credit: Iavarone Lab, Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (January 3, 2017)--The fusion of two adjacent genes can cause cancer by kicking mitochondria into...
Credit: Anupama Lakshmanan/Caltech In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a scientist's body to repair a...
A virus injected directly into the bloodstream could be used to treat people with aggressive brain tumours, a major new study reports. Scientists have found...
