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The results of a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggest there is a significant association between rotating-shift work and prostate cancer.

“Shift workers are known to be…

Recreational physical activity in the year before a diagnosis of breast cancer seems to have a positive influence on the prognosis of young women who are overweight or…

Researchers in Japan say they believe that eating mandarins may cut the risk of developing liver cancer and other diseases.

In two studies the…

Consumption of Vitamin D tablets was found to cut the risk of pancreatic cancer nearly in half, according to a study led by researchers at Northwestern and…

The search for safe, effective cancer therapies has led numerous academic and industrial research groups to investigate oncolytic, or cancer-killing viruses. Oncolytic viruses which include the naturally occurring reovirus, infect cancer cells…

Fewer young men in Canada are being diagnosed with cancer while the number for young women is stable, according to the Cancer in Young Adults in Canada…

An experimental anti-cancer regimen combined a diuretic, a Parkinson’s disease medication and a drug ordinarily used to reverse the effect of sedatives. The unusual mixture inhibited the growth of…

A new screening tool for the general practitioner effectively identifies patients at risk for hereditary breast cancer, according to a new study.

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Women who reported the highest levels of physical activity in the year before they were diagnosed with breast cancer may have higher survival, according to a new study.

Published in the…

The number of new cases of thyroid cancer among women in the U.S. has increased over the past decade despite a decline among women in mortality rates for…

It is known that postmenopausal women taking estrogen plus progestin in hormone replacement therapy experience both increased breast density and breast discomfort. The researchers sought to determine whether the…

Death rates from cancer have continued to drop in the United States, with Hispanics showing lower-than-average rates of most cancers, according to the latest statistics published on Wednesday.

But the rate…

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have developed a disposable microchip that replaces space-consuming instrumentation with fast, cost-effective, lab-on-a-chip technology. The microfluidic device is suitable for…

Genetically altered immune cells wiped out tumors in two men with a deadly form of skin cancer and kept the patients disease-free for at least 18 months, U.S. scientists…

Researchers here have discovered how a specific chemotherapy drug helps a cancer-killing virus. The virus is being tested in animals for the treatment of incurable human brain tumors.

The virus, a…

Millions of Americans are fighting the battle against cancer -  a disease that can result in adverse or fatal health outcomes, high health care costs, and reduced workplace productivity.…

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin or ibuprofen may prevent or delay benign prostatic hyperplasia, an enlarged prostate which can…

Bisphenol A, a common industrial chemical claimed to speed the growth of human breast and ovarian cancers, retains its carcinogenic properties even after being modified by body processes, report…

Health experts in the UK are considering vaccinating young girls of primary school age against the human papilloma virus.

The virus is spread by sexual activity and is known…

A “significant proportion” of survivors of childhood cancers have suicidal thoughts or have actually attempted suicide many years after treatment, a survey shows. Cancer survivors with pain and physical changes are…

Whether or not a woman is obese will likely affect her outcome once she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The…

Breast cancer survivors who believe certain health behaviors helped cause their disease are more likely to change those behaviors after their diagnosis, a new study shows,

The same motivation appears…

Bisphenol A, a common industrial chemical claimed to speed the growth of human breast and ovarian cancers, retains its carcinogenic properties even after being modified by body processes, report…

A test used to detect prostate cancer can also help doctors know when treatment is working. A man’s prostate specific antigen, or PSA, level after seven months of hormone…

A study by cancer researchers here reveals that a new strain of mice offers the first real animal model for an incurable form of chronic leukemia and should greatly…