Mobile phones are not associated with an increased risk of the most common type of brain tumour, finds the first UK study of the relationship…

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Massey Cancer Center have created a new platinum-based, anti-cancer agent able to overcome acquired drug resistance by first modifying the way it is absorbed into cancer cells…

The caspase-8 gene plays a critical role in suppressing metastasis (spread) of neuroblastoma, and the expression of this gene is frequently absent in cancer cells that are aggressively metastasizing, according…

New research suggests that years of repeated exposure to loud noise increases the risk of developing a non-cancerous tumor that could cause hearing loss.

“It doesn’t matter…

Scientists said on Wednesday that a gene which is usually missing in a common, aggressive childhood cancer suppresses the metastasis, or spread, of the disease to other parts…

GW Pharmaceuticals Plc has won approval from U.S. regulators to conduct a pivotal phase III study into its cannabis-based medicine Sativex as a treatment for cancer pain, the…

A team of cancer researchers has shown that a gene commonly lost during neuroblastoma tumor formation, one of the most aggressive cancers in babies and children, is in fact a “metastasis suppressor” gene. The…

Cancer survivors are at increased risk for cancer recurrence, new cancers, and long-term complications of treatment. A new study by the National Cancer Institute suggests that many patients who have…

Taking 1,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D3 daily appears to lower an individual’s risk of developing certain cancers – including colon, breast, and ovarian cancer –…

While it is clear that the treatment of cancer has already begun to undergo a paradigm shift with the inclusion of innovative targeted therapies into current regimens, it would be wrong…

Combination of T cell, antibody to neuroblastoma cells and molecule that spurs T cell growth is designed to treat low initial tumor levels or small cancer cell populations…

An international consortium of epidemilogists - including Dr. Alexandra Nieters and Professor Nikolaus Becker of the Clinical Epidemiology Division of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum,…

It all started 5 years ago when a University of Calgary neuroscientist sent blood from a patient with a neurological disorder to the laboratory of Dr. Marvin Fritzler,…

Betel quid chewing is a strong independent risk factor for pharyngeal cancer (cancer of the back of the throat), but not laryngeal cancer (cancer of the voice box), according to…

Common infections that affect mothers and babies may trigger certain types of childhood cancers, researchers said on Monday.

They found that leukemia and brain tumors, leading cancers in children, occurred…

People who gain less protection from cancer by eating broccoli may be able to compensate for the difference in their genetic make-up by eating ‘super broccoli’, a variety with higher levels of the…

Scientists have devised a strategy to treat tumors by selectively targeting and killing the malignant cells. A new preclinical study, published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, has applied…

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have discovered new mechanisms developed by cancer cells to become resistant to various chemotherapy drugs.

The findings, which could point the way to new approaches for…

Surgery is the most effective way to treat tumors that grow in the liver. But for most patients, the tumor is growing in a way that it can’t be removed.…

Clinicians and basic scientists from academia, private practice, government and industry come together today for a week-long multi-disciplinary symposium in interventional oncology, a rapidly growing area of medicine involving minimally invasive…

A new study reports that a loss of genes on chromosome 1 or chromosome 11 raises the risk of death from the children’s cancer neuroblastoma, even when other…

Men who are undergoing treatment for infertility are 20 times more likely than men in the general population to be diagnosed with testicular cancer, a new study shows. The finding…

According to a newly published series of studies scientists have found that eating cabbage, cooking meat with garlic and even rubbing yourself all over with extract of broccoli can all help reduce the…

Long-term survivors of childhood cancers are likely to have difficulty with certain activities of daily living and to be generally limited in their physical capabilities, new research suggests.

While treatment for childhood…