Previous methods for uncovering cancer are old and inaccurate. Now, data analysts at Norut IT Research in Norway are moving cancer treatment forward.

For many years doctors have used “spot detection” of cell…

A new study suggests that sunitinib is a promising agent for treatment of metastatic renal cell cancer, currently a disease without highly effective treatment options, according to an article in…

Some of the cancer cells’ closest allies have been unveiled. Fortunately, the researchers from BRIC (Biotech Research & Innovation Centre) at University of Copenhagen have also discovered how to beat…

Amgen Inc. said on Sunday that early results from mid-stage trials of its experimental drug denosumab show that it works at least as well as current therapies to limit…

The reason why people are at greater risk of developing cancer as they get older may be explained by research published…

According to Australian researchers exercise appears to slow down the growth of cancer cells because it increases a protein that blocks cell growth and induces cell death.

The study suggests…

The anti-cancer effects of exercise are due to increases in a protein that blocks cell growth and induces cell death, according to Australian researchers.

The protein, called insulin-like binding protein-3…

Despite the ease and availability of Internet searches, cancer patients looking for information about their disease found more information by seeking help from a librarian than by searching on their own,…

Many survivors of childhood cancer are not getting the optimal follow-up care recommended for detecting the long-term consequences of cancer treatment, according to a study of Canadian patients.

Though the…

The hunt to find common genes that are associated with cancer is unlikely to be successful, say experts in this week’s British Medical Journal.

Huge resources are being invested…

Glivec (imatinib), which has dramatically improved survival prospects for some cancer patients, can interfere with bone development, according to U.S. researchers.

Results of a study published this week in The New…

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have developed a new algorithm that enhances the ability to detect a cancer gene, and have applied their algorithm to…

White blood cells from a strain of cancer-resistant mice cured advanced cancers in ordinary laboratory mice, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine reported.

“Even highly aggressive forms of malignancy…

A new study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Political Economy, calculates the prospective gains that could be obtained from further progress against major diseases.

Kevin M.…

One of the few gene therapy studies that had ever been successful was terminated in 2003, because several of the treated children had developed leukemia.

The cancer of the blood was…

An engineered virus tracks down and infects the most common and deadly form of brain cancer and then kills tumor cells by forcing them to devour themselves, researchers at…

Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have created a new class of hybrid virus and demonstrated its ability to find, highlight, and deliver genes…

Parents need help to talk to their children about cancer, say researchers in a study published online by the BMJ.

Cancer is relatively common among women of childbearing age.…

Their experience treating a rare type of abdominal cancer has helped physicians at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center make a new discovery that may change…

Cancer researchers at Sydney’s Garvan Institute, in collaboration with Spanish scientists, have formulated a new concept for how cancer cells can escape normal growth controls, which may have far-reaching…

Their experience treating a rare type of abdominal cancer has helped physicians at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center make a new discovery that may change the way…

Suggestions that fluoridated water supplies may be linked to a rare form of bone cancer have not been scientifically established, Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Dr Robert Hall said this week.

Laboratory discoveries by scientists at two universities may lead to new directions in cancer therapy drugs. The researchers have discovered that a genetic switch involved in growth and development…

Exploring ways to increase cancer screening in minority and low-income women in New York City, researchers found that a telephone could be a powerful weapon in the fight against cancer. The…

A scientist in the United States has apparently found a way to reverse the process of cell division.

The discovery has important implications for the treatment of…