European countries show wide variations in the percentage of terminally ill cancer patients who spend their last days at home, according to a study published online Monday.

Enabling terminally ill…

“When a person receives a cancer diagnosis his or her life is completely transformed and all of the sudden they have so few choices,” said Laura Morrell,…

Instead of killing off cancer cells with toxic drugs, scientists have discovered a molecular pathway that forces them to grow old and die, they said on…

Increased understanding of the Skp2 gene and its relation to cellular senescence may lead to the development of novel agents that can suppress tumor development in common types…

Travel Award Available to share data with Clinicians and Scientists to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and management of Malignant Hyperthermia-Susceptible Patients April 23-24, 2010 at Mercy Hospital University of Pittsburgh Medical…

Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Karolinska Institutet have used novel technology to reveal the different genetic patterns of neuroblastoma,…

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth (UK), the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Cornell University in New York, Weil Medical College in New York and the Center for Neural Tumour…

Genetic abnormalities - missing DNA or duplicate DNA - that fuel the growth of one type of cancer may actually be at work in several others, U.S. researchers said…

Cancer death rates are falling in Britain but the chances of surviving the disease are still worse than the European average and there has been little progress in closing the…

ATM, a protein that reacts to DNA damage by ordering repairs or the suicide of the defective cell, plays a similar, previously unknown role in response to oxidative damage outside…

To find the causes for cancer, biochemists and developmental biologists at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, retraced the function of an important human cancer gene 600 million years back in time. For the…

University of Adelaide researchers in Australia are finding new ways to block the movement of cells in the body which can cause autoimmune diseases and the spread of cancer.

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Forty percent of the 12 million people diagnosed with cancer worldwide each year could avert the killer disease by protecting themselves against infections and changing their lifestyles, experts…

Recent media stories have reported isolated cases of cancer patients who were injured by incorrect doses from intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

Despite such reports, IMRT remains one the most…

Many human tumors express indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an enzyme which mediates an immune-escape in several cancer types. Researchers in the Molecular Modeling group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and…

A new technique to catch cancer early has taken an important step forward thanks to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). NPL’s ‘phantoms’ will ensure an exciting new screening…

A simple “see and treat” approach using a test costing $2 could help doctors prevent 100,000 cervical cancer deaths a year in women in poorer countries, British…

Most skin cancers are highly curable, but require surgery that can be painful and scarring.

A new study by Loyola University Health System researchers could lead to alternative treatments…

Up to 25% of cancer patients develop metastases in the brain – often long after successful treatment of the primary tumor. In almost all such cases, the prognosis is…

Cancer patients in both the United States and the United Kingdom face challenges in gaining access to expensive treatments, according to research published in the December…

Fewer people are getting cancer and death rates continue to fall, according to the latest report on cancer in the United States, released on Monday.

New diagnoses for all types…

Certain genes switch their nuclear position in tumor cells, offering a potential new method of diagnosing cancer, say researchers from the National Cancer Institute. The study by Meaburn et…

Matthew Levy, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been awarded more than $700,000 by Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) for his high-risk/high-reward…

Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine researchers have identified a gene that may play a pivotal role in two processes that are essential…

Heart patients in Norway - where unlike many countries foods are not enriched with folic acid - were more likely to die from cancer if they took folic acid…