Cancer

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Feb, 26, 2016 -- The number of men smoking tobacco in India rose...

Credit: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute The immune cells, called natural killer cells, hunt and destroy foreign cells in...

LOS ANGELES (Feb. 25, 2016) -- Cedars-Sinai has been selected by the White House to participate in its Precision Medicine...

TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 25, 2016) - Moffitt Cancer Center received a grant from the National Cancer Institute Center to Reduce...

Glioblastoma is an extremely aggressive brain tumor with limited treatment options. Recent progress in using immunotherapy-based treatment options in other...

Human polyomaviruses are commonly found in the population and generally do not produce noticeable symptoms. However, one type of human...

A study published online ahead of print in the journal Medical Care shows that over a recent 10-year period, the...

DALLAS - Feb. 24, 2016 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have designed and built a microscope capable of creating...

One in four cases of colorectal cancer (CRC) detected in a guiac faecal occult blood testing (gFOBT) programme are diagnosed...

One in four cases of colorectal cancer (CRC) detected in a guiac faecal occult blood testing (gFOBT) programme are diagnosed...

This news release is available in French. Montreal, February 25, 2016 - Pancreatic cancer carries a very bleak prognosis for...

TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 24, 2016) - Despite numerous advances in oncology since the War on Cancer began, many patients develop...

Stratospheric costs for therapies not yet covered by insurance put some drugs out of reach for many patients Securitized consumer...

An international team led by Australian researchers has studied the genetics of pancreatic cancer, revealing it is actually four separate...

Omega-3 fatty acids may lower the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal obese women, according to researchers. The protection likely...

In a first for medical science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pharmacy researchers turn skin cells into cancer-hunting...

Hiding their DNA genome inside the nucleus of the infected cells, the herpesviruses establish a lifelong infection in humans. Not...

Cancer Research UK's Centre for Drug Development (CDD), in partnership with Amgen Inc., has launched a new clinical trial to...

Cancer immunology is based upon boosting the body's own immune system to vanquish malignancies. It is among the fastest growing...

The majority of cancer prevention and screening recommendations in the United States did not quantify benefits and harms or were...