A new study published by University of Leicester researchers has found “convincing evidence” that cannabis smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially increase the risk of cancer development in humans.

Using…

Chemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed novel compounds that show promise for photodynamic cancer therapy, which uses light-activated drugs to kill tumor cells.

The new…

Most patients with a form of eye cancer called choroidal melanoma want to undergo a genetic test that can predict their likely outcome, a small study suggests.

Moreover, researchers found,…

Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Johns Hopkins University have discovered that delivering a small molecule that is highly expressed in normal tissues but lost in diseased cells can result…

Women continue to be under-enrolled in cancer clinical trials, according to a new review, published in the July 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.…

Corrupt lifestyles and vices go hand in hand; each feeds the other. But even the worst miscreant needs customary societal amenities to get by. It’s the same with cancer…

Most cancers are rare in people with Down syndrome, whose overall cancer mortality is below 10 percent of that in the general population. Since they have an extra…

In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at…

A ground-breaking Canada-wide clinical trial led by Dr. Katherine Borden, at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal,…

Nearly one-third of cancer research published in high-impact journals disclosed a conflict of interest, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

A new analysis finds that a considerable number of clinical cancer studies published in respected medical journals have financial connections to pharmaceutical companies. Published in the June 15,…

Over the next 20 years, the number of new cancer cases diagnosed annually in the United States will increase by 45 percent, from 1.6 million in…

The number of new cancer cases diagnosed each year will jump 45 percent in the next two decades to 2.3 million up from 1.6 million in 2010, affecting…

The diagnosis of cancer is a jarring experience. Patients face a battery of diagnostic tests, clinic visits, specialist consultations and intense treatments that drastically affect their quality of…

Cancer patients can survive longer under treatments based on their individual genetic profiles, according to a nationwide study released jointly today by Phoenix-area healthcare organizations.

The study shows that molecular…

Cancer that spreads to other organs finds a particularly inviting hideout in the brain, where these metastases are usually far harder to treat than they are in other locations.…

As part of its efforts to showcase the latest breakthroughs in cancer science, the American Association for Cancer Research will host a press conference highlighting the newest research and clinical trial results…

A protein called Mcl-1 plays a critical role in melanoma cell resistance to a form of apoptosis called anoikis, according to research published this week in Molecular Cancer Research.

The presence…

Oncologists often have to wait months before they can determine whether a treatment is working. Now, using a non-invasive method, researchers at UCLA’s…

A new Cochrane review did not find serious side effects relating to the use of homeopathic medicine in patients having orthodox cancer care.

“Furthermore, there was no indication that…

Medical researchers from the University of Alberta are pushing the boundaries of nuclear medicine. They are finding new ways to harness technology, new knowledge about the nature of cancer and…

The strategy of using monoclonal antibodies for cancer treatment was first described in the late 1970s with the promise that they could be developed into therapies that were highly specific to…

Nurse researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) are helping to make cancer a word, not a sentence, for over 1.4 million Americans…

Patients who undergo numerous CT scans over their lifetime may be at increased risk for cancer, according to a study published in the April issue of…

For reasons that are unclear, patients with multiple sclerosis appear to be less prone to develop cancer in general than other individuals.

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the…