Cancer Research

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of disability and death worldwide. An estimated 8.6 million people fell ill and 1.3 million people died from the disease in 2012, according to the…

Cancer care has had lots of known side effects but one goes less discussed - the "financial toxicity", which is the expense, anxiety and loss of confidence confronting those who face large,…

Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki has described a very interesting case of a cancer patient named Daniel. Daniel was a fit man in his mid 30's and was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. Within two months it had…

A new study finds that seminal fluid - semen - contains biomarkers for prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men.  University of Adelaide research fellow and lead author Dr Luke Selth…

Why, as we age, are we more vulnerable to cancer?  You don't think of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - one of the atomic bomb testing facilities - when you think of breast cancer…

The May 26th 2014 issue of Chemical&Engineering News reported on a promising drug with a future to be determined by the courts. Cancer researcher Wafik S. El-Deiry of Pennsylvania State…

Long-term follow-up results from a phase 1b immunotherapy trial combining drugs for advanced melanoma patients has shown encouraging results — long-lasting, with high survival rates — according to a…

There is good news for cancer survivors - their numbers continue to grow. There are currently 14.5 million cancer survivors in the USA and that will grow to almost 19 million by 2024, according to…

As targeted therapies become more available, increasing opportunity exists to match treatments to the genetics of a specific cancer - but oncologists have to know these genetics in order to make the…

Circumcision is performed for various reasons, including those that are based on religion, aesthetics, or health, but a paper in BJU International adds to a growing list of advantages to circumcision…