Cancer news

Duke team finds new clues to how cancer spreads

Cancer cells circulating in the blood carry newly identified proteins that could be screened to improve prognostic tests…    

Cancer death rates continue drop: report

Cancer death rates are continuing to fall, but not all segments of the population are benefiting, the American…    

Scientists develop new approach for cancer vaccine

Scientists have developed a technique that uses a library of DNA taken from organs in which tumors can…    

Discovery of a new mechanism of gene control that is associated with cancer

Researchers headed by Joan Massagué at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York and by María Macías…    

Radionuclide treatment against small tumors and metastases

A cancer diagnosis is not necessarily a death sentence. There are now quite a number of possibilities to…    

Blocking common gateway to inflammation suppresses cancer

There is an intimate and complex relationship between inflammation and cancer; and it is well established that tumors…    

Simple test could hold key to early diagnosis of cancers

Cancers of the gut, stomach and pancreas could be detected much sooner with a simple urine test, research…    

U.S. cancer drugs shortage has doctors scrambling

Cancer medicines desperately needed by sick children and adults are in short supply, undermining the ability of U.S.…    

Cancer costs highest for individually insured

One of every seven cancer patients spends more than 20 percent of his income on health care and…    

Cancer cells accelerate aging and inflammation in the body to drive tumor growth

Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have shed new light on the longstanding conundrum about what…    

Mount Sinai researchers discover possible new target for sarcoma treatment and prevention

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered a protein signaling pathway that becomes hyperactivated in human…    

Report outlines successes, challenges in cancer prevention efforts

A new report from the American Cancer Society details cancer control efforts and outlines improvements as well as…    

End of life care for cancer patients differs in US and Canada

In the United States, older patients with advanced lung cancer make much less use of hospital and emergency…    

Obstructive sleep apnea linked to cancer growth in mice

A new study links the intermittent interruption of breathing that occurs in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)…    

Selenium doesn’t prevent cancer: report

There is no convincing evidence that taking high doses of selenium—a popular dietary supplement—can prevent cancer, according to…    

How to recognize at an early stage whether a new cancer therapy prolongs life

Great hopes are always placed in new cancer therapies. However, whether new surgical techniques, drugs or radiation therapies…    

Health literacy tests underutilized; may improve elderly cancer patients’ care and outcomes

Low health literacy is a significant barrier to quality care, especially among elderly patients, but increased use of…    

Brain cell migration during normal development may offer insight on how cancer cells spread

By shedding new light on how cells migrate in the developing brain, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research…    

Following cancer prevention guidelines lowers risk of death from cancer, heart disease, all causes

A study of more than 100,000 men and women over 14 years finds nonsmokers who followed recommendations for…    

Biochemist uses computer models to study protein involved with cancer, aging and chronic disease

A new biophysical and biochemical study may lead to better understanding of how structural flexibility controls the interaction…