Cancer Research

Attending Breast Cancer Screening Reduces Risk Of Death By 40 Percent

Women aged 50-69 years who attend mammography screening reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by 40 percent compared to women who are not screened- according to a major international review of the latest evidence on breast cancer screening. Overal ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2015 - 11:00am

Men 50 Percent More Likely To Get Esophageal Cancer Than 30 Years Ago

Esophageal cancer rates in men have increased by 50 percent since the early 1980s, with new United Kingdom cases reaching almost 6,000, according to the latest figures which show that the number of men diagnosed with esophageal cancer has rapidly risen fro ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2015 - 11:00am

Rabbit Virus Improves Bone Marrow Transplants, Kills Some Cancer Cells

Researchers have discovered that a rabbit virus can deliver a one-two punch, killing some kinds of cancer cells while eliminating a common and dangerous complication of bone marrow transplants. For patients with blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2015 - 10:30am

Total Marrow Irradiation Provides Greater Precision, Fewer Side Effects

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the first successful total marrow irradiation (TMI) using the TomoTherapy System, first performed at City of Hope in Duarte, California. Since then, numerous centers around the world have adopted the approach, o ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2015 - 8:30am

Social Networking Against Cancer

The advent of online social networks has led to the rapid development of tools for understanding the interactions between members of the network, their activity, the connections, the hubs and nodes. Science 2.0 was founded with that as one of its four pil ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2015 - 9:31am

Discovered: Way To Disrupt Brain Tumor Stem Cells

Some brain tumors are notoriously difficult to treat. Whether surgically removed, zapped by radiation or infiltrated by chemotherapy drugs, they find a way to return. The ability of many brain tumors to regenerate can be traced to cancer stem cells that e ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2015 - 10:30am

Toward Targeted Melanoma Therapies

Melanoma patients with high levels of a protein that controls the expression of pro-growth genes are less likely to survive, according to a study led by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online in the journal Molecular C ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2015 - 10:00am

AIM2 Toward New Treatments To Thwart Colon Cancer

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered how an immune system protein, called AIM2 (Absent in Melanoma 2), plays a role in determining the aggressiveness of colon cancer. They found that AIM2 deficiency causes uncontrolled ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2015 - 1:01pm

Tuberculosis Bacteria Hide In The Low Oxygen Niches Of Bone Marrow Stem Cells

A new study is helping to shed light on latent tuberculosis and the bacteria's ability to hide in stem cells. Some bone marrow stem cells reside in low oxygen (hypoxia) zones. These specialized zones are secured as immune cells and toxic chemicals ca ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2015 - 4:34pm

Mechanism Regulates Tumour Initiation And Invasion In Skin Basal Cell Carcinoma

Researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB uncover a new mechanism that regulates tumour initiation and invasion in skin basal cell carcinoma. Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cancer found in human with several million of new patien ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2015 - 6:26pm