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Personalized medicine is medical care customized to a patient’s specific genetic and demographic profile. It is an odd idea to think that traditional medicine... Read More »
Many women with breast cancer will undergo surgery to remove the tumor and require at least some breast reconstruction, often in the form of implants. However... Read More »
Here's your weekly collection of medical stories making headlines this week!
Somatic stem cells obtained from skin cells for first time
Scientists have... Read More »
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center proposed two drugs, rejected by cancer experts for being too toxic in standard high doses, for possible cancer... Read More »
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM have agreed to collaborate on the development of a physician support tool built upon the IBM Watson computing... Read More »
A new finding in basic science should trigger a “change in thinking” about how cancer drugs might be developed and tested.The emerging science described... Read More »
A new discovery published in the FASEB Journal could lead to a diagnostic tool for physicians assessing breast cancer risk. Proteins called ‘obscurins,’... Read More »
New research shows, for the first time, that it is safe for women who have been diagnosed with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer to be pregnant, despite... Read More »
A breast cancer screening program based in the Netherlands that began in 1989 has been successful in contributing to a drop in deaths from the disease, a new study... Read More »
For the past 40 years, radiation has been the most effective method for treating deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas. Unfortunately, beams of radiation still... Read More »
Aspirin may soon have a new role. Scientists from The City College of New York have developed a new aspirin compound that has great promise to be an extremely potent... Read More »
Identification of a non-traditional pathway for spiriting a cancer-promoting protein into the cell nucleus points to a possible combination therapy for esophageal... Read More »
Mayo Clinic researchers have trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within, using a genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a... Read More »
Researchers have discovered a method to identify chromosomal translocations -- cancer-causing rearrangements of genetic material -- quickly, accurately and... Read More »
Pancreas cancer tumors spread quickly and are resistant to treatment, making them very deadly. Their resistance to chemotherapy stems in part from a unique biological ... Read More »
A research team led by scientists at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have identified a genetic variation that causes some patients to not respond to... Read More »
Oral cancer drugs that target key enzymes in tumor cells have made significant contributions to oncology care, freeing many patients from spending long hours at... Read More »
Here's your weekly summary of the top medical news of the week!
CellTex scandal breakdown: Stem cells, Rick Perry and the FDA
There has been an explosion... Read More »
Brain tumor cells infected with a cancer-killing virus release a protein that warns other tumor cells of the impending infection and enables them to mount a defense... Read More »
Antibodies, once touted as the ‘magic bullets’ of cancer care, are now fulfilling that promise and more advances are on the way, say cancer researchers at ... Read More »