Cancer Research

Removing ovaries during hysterectomies protects against future risk of ovarian cancer but the ovaries and the hormones they produce may have advantages for preventing heart disease, hip fracture,…

Cancer occurs most often in adults because it often takes decades of accumulating genetic errors for a tumor to develop - pediatric tumors are another issue. Recently, researchers may have found a…

Chemotherapy, the treatment of cancer using chemotherapeutic agents such as cytotoxic antineoplastic drugs, is one of the primary treatments for cancer - but it has drawbacks. Some of the most…

A potential new pathway to treat cancer is actually called the Hippo pathway - and it's a key control in how our organs are perfectly suited to our bodies, despite differences in size. …

Brain cancer is the primary cause of cancer mortality in children but even when the cancer is cured, the stress of treatment can be harmful to developing brains. The search is always on for gentler…

Hydrogen sulfide, the pungent-smelling gas produced by rotten eggs, is a key player in colon cancer metabolism, and a potential target for therapies for the disease, according to a new paper in the…

Michael Graner, PhD, a CU Cancer Center investigator and associate professor of neurosurgery at the CU School of Medicine, experimented on his dog. Before anyone yells "Tesla!" and PETA gets up in…

A promising anti-cancer therapy - suppression of the protein mammalian target Of Rapamycin  (mTOR) - has failed to achieve hoped-for success in killing tumor cells. mTOR plays an important role…

Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen that is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide. More than 90 million new cases of genital infections occur each year. About…

The clear star of this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago was  the antibody approach to Programmed Death (PD-1) for solid tumors. Responses are greater than…