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Cancer is a disease in which cells in the body grow out of control. 

Cancer is always named for the part of the body where it starts,…

Adding cancer drug Avastin to standard chemotherapy doubled the length of time a certain group of advanced ovarian cancer patients lived without their disease getting worse, according to results of a…

The number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75 percent across the world by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as…

Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and naproxen may help protect against certain types of skin cancer - including melanoma, the most dangerous form of…

Younger patients with colorectal cancer were more likely to present advanced stage tumors at diagnosis and metastasize much sooner, yet had better than or equal…

There are significant gaps in the information women receive about their future fertility following cancer diagnosis, suggests a new paper published today (30 May) in BJOG: An…

Women who regularly work into the early hours can be nearly four times as likely to develop breast cancer, scientist have warned.

The risk is highest among women who…

A new study suggests that aspirin and other similar painkillers may help protect against skin cancer. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society,…

Chromosomal deletions in DNA often involve just one of two gene copies inherited from either parent. But scientists haven’t known how a deletion in one gene from one…

If Janice Gillespie had to do it over again, she would have listened to her mother.

Gillespie, 67, spoke on Friday at OU Medical Center in hopes of encouraging…

Chromosomal deletions in DNA often involve just one of two gene copies inherited from either parent. But scientists haven’t known how a deletion in one gene from one…

Doctors find a high number of malignant tumors when a state-wide skin cancer screening program is introduced, says a new study.

Based on results from a program in…

Interim results from a mid-stage trial of Celldex Therapeutics Inc’s experimental drug showed trends toward reducing tumors in patients with advanced breast cancer, with rates improving for those patients…

New research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) looks at patient experiences with colorectal cancer screening and questions current screening guidelines. Worldwide, colorectal cancer is the second most common…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an indication of a breast tumor’s response to pre-surgical chemotherapy significantly earlier than possible through clinical examination, according to a new study published online in…

Up to half of all prostate cancer cells have a chromosomal rearrangement that results in a new “fusion” gene and formation of its unique protein - but no…

Pushed to the brink of survival, the hyper-driven cells of a cancerous tumor tap into an ancient system that has helped organisms…

Millions of middle-aged women were needlessly denied HRT because a landmark report which found it raised the risk of breast cancer was exaggerated, while the benefits to middle-aged women were…

New research suggests that weight loss through exercise and dieting helps overweight women lower the levels of certain hormones in their blood, potentially raising the odds that they’ll…

Although a U.S. advisory panel no longer recommends that men routinely undergo prostate cancer screening with a PSA blood test, men should ask their doctors…

Snoring and other types of ‘sleep disordered breathing’, as it is known, can deprive the body of enough oxygen for hours at a time.

Scientists now believe having low blood oxygen…

By simply shining a tiny light within the small intestine, close to that organ’s junction with the pancreas, physicians at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida have been able…

New recommendations from chest and cancer doctors call for lung cancer screening in older adults with a long history of smoking a pack a day or more - but…

A task force advising the U.S. government on Monday recommended against routine use of the prostate-cancer screening test called PSA, or prostate specific antigen, for lack of a…

Multiple research projects – including a 2006 study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – have used DNA microarray analysis to identify several…