Tag: cancer

This could be a revolution in cancer prevention and therapy.

Tricksy hobbitses!

Zap the cancer away.

Genetic sequencing could pave the way for a new age of cancer detection.

All you need is carrot juice and beetroot. Sheesh...

It's now possible to see how individual cancer cells move through the body of a mouse.

You can trust a dog's nose.

Bunch up!

Worrying.

This translates into 2.1 million averted deaths, showing that cancer research and prevention screening works.

It's not just your lungs either.

I'd expect nothing less from the Tasmanian devils.

This tiny thing can analyze 8 samples at once.

Scientists discovered how cancerous cells hide from immune system -- and how to make them targets again.

When all hope was thought to be lost, selection came to the rescue.

Not a modern-day disease after all.

Chemists at the Ohio State University developed a paper strip technology that might save countless lives in rural Africa, and ...

Microsoft researchers data mined health queries and detected pancreatic cancer symptoms before the user even thought about it.

Yes, it's actually happening.

A new study confirms the the effectiveness of a HPV vaccine introduced almost a decade ago in the US; the ...

In the new technique, nanotechnology is used to determine whether a specific target nucleic acid sequence exists within a mixture, ...

University of Toronto researchers have developed a molecular delivery system to administer chemotherapy drugs with as little collateral damage as ...

Here's one more benefit of exercise (as if we needed more): it can help you fight cancer.

In what has the potential to be a paradigm shift, doctors report extraordinary progress in treating patients with a severe, ...

A new study finds that many cancers are caused by mutations that block the tumor suppressor gene’s effect, through a ...

There is a long-lasting debate dividing the cancer researchers community over the point at which a skin lesion is considered ...

The blood-brain barrier has been broken for the first time in history, and this can revolutionize some areas of cancer ...

In what can only be called a medical oddity, doctors in Columbia found that a man's lung tumor wasn't actually ...

An eagerly awaited report from the World Health Organization (WHO) states that processed meats such as bacon and sausages cause ...

Scientists have in the past toyed with the idea of using a disease to fight cancer. Now, after identifying a ...

A research effort at Winship Cancer Institute recently identified a substance in orange lichen and rhubarb that has the potential ...

In the fight with cancer, we need any piece of help we can get. With this in mind, a group ...

Researchers stumbled upon a new tool to fight cancer in a rather unexpected place; while searching for a vaccine against ...

For every extra 10 cm in height from the median, the chance of getting cancer increases by 11% for men ...

A promising diagnosis test can accurately detect cancer in 7 out of 10 patients just by reading telltale genetic mutations ...

For the first time, aggressive breast, lung and bladder cancer have been neutralized and turned back to normal cells, prevented ...

The trend is clear: medicine is becoming more and more personalized. Ultimately, when you'll enter a hospital for a diagnosis ...

Among the many tools it has in its arsenal, cancer is also very good at hiding - so good that ...

Viagra does things to you... but not skin cancer.

A long term study conducted by US researchers has found a connection between levels of DDT pesticide and breast cancer ...

If we want to defeat cancer, we have to treat every patient uniquely, a team from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) concluded. ...

A new clinical trial from the UK brings exciting results as a modified strain of the herpes virus has been ...

Four cancer charities operated by the same family under a scamming scheme were sued by the Federal Trade Commission and ...

For most smokers, the message that cigarettes are fatally bad for their health often doesn't come across. But if that ...

You hear about potential cancer treatments all the time, and despite significant and remarkable improvements, we're still miles away from ...

In the developed world, obesity is one of the biggest health concerns, so weight loss is one of the hottest ...

A while ago I wrote that the applications for graphene are endless, and it seems like scientists just want to ...

Contrary to popular belief, much of the damage inflicted to the skin by harmful ultraviolet (UV) light occurs hours after ...

Stanford scientists proved that it's possible use DNA minirings that code the production of a specific protein that can't be ...

An ingredient in extra-virgin olive oil kills a variety of cancer cells in a matter of minutes, without damaging healthy ...