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Simultaneous targeting of two different molecules in cancer is an effective way to shrink tumors, block invasion, and stop metastasis, scientists at the University of ... Read More »
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Women have increased risk of in-hospital death following a... Read More »
Investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and 12 other centers in the United States and Australia have found that a new drug for patients with... Read More »
Scientists at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a microfluidic device that can rapidly isolate cells. It is sometimes necessary to sort through... Read More »
A leaky gut may be the root of some cancers forming in the rest of the body, a new study published online Feb. 21 in PLoS ONE by Thomas Jefferson University... Read More »
A new method has been developed for detecting cancer with blood tests, and with the help of infrared light beans. Researchers at the Faculty of Health Sciences... Read More »
Cancer Research UK scientists have revealed how a combination of two very different drugs -- currently being tested in clinical trials -- amplifies the destruction of ... Read More »
90 percent of people are exposed to the Epstein Barr virus (EBV) at some point in their life. While the immune system’s T cells rapidly clear most EBV-infected... Read More »
Scientists have found a way to allow for more effective use of Quantum Dots (Qdots) in cancer cells by overcoming a common hurdle using Sendai virus. Qdots are small... Read More »
According to a leading Colorado prostate cancer expert, after a decade and a half of near stagnation, four new drugs could help make advanced prostate cancer a... Read More »
Sam Cho and his students at Wake Forest University are using graphics processing units – also called GPUs or graphics cards – to explore the biomolecular... Read More »
Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have developed a new nanosurgery method that uses a femtosecond laser along with gold nanoparticles. Deposited on the cells... Read More »
Researchers at the UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center report for the first time that radiation treatment, despite ... Read More »
Laser light in combination with certain drugs – known as photodynamic therapy – can destroy cancer tumors. But, this method is currently used mostly to... Read More »
Scientists at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute are one step closer to providing personalized treatments to children with a certain type of brain cancer... Read More »
Curcumin, an active component of the Indian curry spice turmeric, may help slow down tumor growth in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients on androgen... Read More »
A research group at the University of Alberta is hoping its latest discovery could one day be used to develop new therapies that target certain types of cancers. The... Read More »
Scientists at McGill University have discovered that the most deadly form of ovarian cancer does not, in fact, originate in the ovary. These findings could change the ... Read More »
Whenever someone is diagnosed with cancer or some other life-threatening disease, the logic of decision-making begins to change. Doctors will deliver toxic... Read More »
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) spreads easily through the lymphatic and blood vessels, forming deadly metastasis. New research demonstrates how IBC cells use IL-8... Read More »