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A recent study by National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers revealed that breast cancer patients who had received or were undergoing chemotherapy treatment... Read More »
Dietary cadmium, a toxic metal widely dispersed in the environment and found in many farm fertilizers, may lead to an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a... Read More »
In the late 1990s, Novartis manufactured and patented imatinib (with the brand name Gleevec), a drug that prolongs life in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia... Read More »
Scientists have identified a compound that rapidly kills hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells, the most common form of liver cancer, while sparing healthy... Read More »
Biologist Lee Ligon of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her research team have discovered a previously unknown way that breast cancer cells interact with... Read More »
Nithin Tumma, a 17-year-old from Fort Gratiot, Mich., earned first place in the Intel Science Talent Search 2012 and was awarded $100,000 by the Intel Foundation for... Read More »
Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (part of the Novartis Research Foundation), with colleagues from the University of Fribourg... Read More »
Cancer is usually attributed to faulty genes, but growing evidence from the field of cancer epigenetics indicates a key role for the gene "silencing"... Read More »
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have provided new insight into why the most severe subtype of breast cancer in humans frequently metastasizes. Tumor cells... Read More »
Researchers at Washington University have identified the first gene mutation associated with a chronic and often fatal form of neuroblastoma that typically strikes... Read More »
Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre have discovered a gene that can simultaneously protect against cancer and favor its growth. The team... Read More »
The world’s tallest man seems to have stopped growing after treatment at the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center. 8-foot-3-inch Sultan Kosen of Turkey... Read More »
Infants and toddlers who have been treated for cancer tend to reach certain developmental milestones later than do their healthy peers, say researchers at the... Read More »
As scientists continue making breakthroughs in personalized cancer treatment, delivering those therapies in the most cost effective manner has become increasingly... Read More »
Johns Hopkins scientists have published laboratory data refuting studies that suggest blood vessels that form within brain cancers are largely made up of cancer... Read More »
Here’s your weekly collection of medical news making waves this week.
Robotic surgery: Improving patient outcomes and opening the door for telesurgery... Read More »
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have successfully brought latent HIV infection out of hiding, with a drug used to treat... Read More »
Taking a sample from just one part of a tumor may not give a full picture of its ‘genetic landscape’, according to a landmark study published in the New... Read More »
A rarely seen phenomenon in cancer patients -- in which focused radiation at the site of one tumor is associated with the disappearance of metastatic tumors all over... Read More »
Researchers have found that women with breast pain who receive imaging (mammograms, MRIs or ultrasounds) as part of breast pain evaluation, undergo follow-up... Read More »