Cancer Research

Evidence For How Incurable Cancer Develops

Researchers have made a breakthrough in explaining how an incurable type of blood cancer develops from an often symptom-less prior blood disorder. All patients diagnosed with myeloma, a cancer of the blood-producing bone marrow, first develop a relatively ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2015 - 10:00am

Metabolism May Keep Cancer Cells In Check

Researchers have found that a long-known tumor suppressor, whose mechanism of holding cell growth in check has remained murky for over 40 years, works in part by keeping the cell's energy metabolism behaving in grown-up fashion. Tumor suppressors are ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2015 - 10:30am

Why Antioxidants Might Make Your Cancer Worse

Antioxidants have made a fortune for the dietary supplement industry, but how many people really know what they are and why they’re supposedly good for you? One common claim is that the these molecules can protect you from cancer. This is supposedly becau ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 17 2015 - 3:38pm

New Test To Predict Relapse Of Testicular Cancers

Scientists have developed a new test to identify patients who are at risk of suffering a relapse from testicular cancer. Assessing just three features of a common kind of testicular cancer- called non-seminomatous germ cell tumor- can identify those at mo ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2015 - 9:00am

Test Could Predict Whether Breast Cancer Will Spread To The Brain

Women with particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer could be identified by a test that predicts whether the disease is likely to spread to the brain. An analysis of almost 4,000 patients with breast cancer found that testing for high activity in a p ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2015 - 1:09pm

Nicotinamide Vitamin B3 Derivative Cuts Risk Of New Skin Cancers

A year of treatment with nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3, significantly lowered the risk of common, non-melanoma skin cancer in high-risk patients, according to a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. All 386 participants in the study had a his ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2015 - 7:00am

Surface Markers Allow New Diagnostic Approaches For Sarcoidosis

A team of scientists recently developed a new strategy to determine monocyte subsets involved in diseases. The results could help facilitating the diagnosis of sarcoidosis and may improve the respective patient management. Monocytes are white blood cells ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2015 - 7:20pm

Breakthrough: Targeted Therapy For Stomach Cancer Now Possible?

Gastric cancer- stomach cancer- does not respond well to existing treatments and is currently the third leading cause of cancer death in the world, after lung and liver cancer. Researchers have discovered that certain drugs, currently used to treat breast ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2015 - 7:55am

Different Types Of Ovarian Cancer Have Different Causes

Having more children or having her fallopian tubes cut changes risk of different types of ovarian cancer to different levels, according to new research presented at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference. Data was collected f ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2015 - 8:00am

Vitamin C Stresses And Kills Mutant Cancer Cells

Colorectal cancer cells with certain mutations "handle" vitamin C differently than other cells, and this difference ultimately kills them, finds a new study. The idea that vitamin C could be an effective therapy for human cancer holds great appe ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2015 - 6:22am