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Eating soy could pose risks to some women who begin consuming it as adults by making breast cancer tumors resistant to treatment, US researchers said on Monday.

A study on lab…

High-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection persisted significantly more often in young African-American women than in white women, suggesting an explanation for the increased cervical cancer risk in African Americans, investigators…

Many older women with newly diagnosed breast cancer might safely avoid adjuvant radiation therapy, according to a study reported here.

Radiation therapy did not reduce the risk of local…

Roche said patients with an aggressive type of breast cancer lived longer after taking its experimental “armed antibody” drug without the disease worsening than those on a…

Four proteins involved in translation, the final step of general protein production, are associated with poor prognosis in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer when they are dysregulated, researchers reported…

Even as the rates of some cancers are falling, Mayo Clinic is seeing an alarming trend: the dramatic rise of skin cancer, especially among people…

Scientists may have discovered a new paradigm for immunotherapy against cancer by priming antibodies and T cells with cancer stem cells, according to a study published in Cancer…

New research shows it may be no accident when doctors observe how patients suffering from both breast cancer and arthritis seem to have more aggressive cancer. However, the new-found…

In a landmark study, researchers have linked the long-term use of estrogen plus progesterone and estrogen-only hormone therapy with a higher risk for developing…

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia have found that a protein associated with other cancers appears to also be important in…

At the time of diagnosis, the majority of breast cancers are categorized as estrogen-receptor positive, or hormone sensitive, which means their cancerous cells may need estrogen…

Patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer had limited side effects and in many cases a drop in prostate-specific antigen expression with galeterone (TOK-001), a small-molecule oral drug, according…

Selumetinib, a small-molecule MEK inhibitor, demonstrated the ability to control low-grade serous ovarian or peritoneal cancer, according to phase II study results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012, held…

Metformin, a widely used, well-tolerated drug prescribed for patients with diabetes, may protect against liver cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association…

New findings published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, suggest that metformin may protect against oral cancer.

J. Silvio Gutkind, Ph.D., chief…

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 40,000 people every year, and among cancers it’s particularly insidious. For 80 percent of patients, the disease is already so advanced…

Mutations in a gene called XRCC2 cause increased breast cancer risk, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The study looked at families that have…

Professor Melissa Southey of the Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology at the University of Melbourne, who led the study, said it was a significant discovery and…

Prostate cancer vaccine Provenge has long incited passions unlike any other cancer therapy.

Doctors who raised doubts about it received death threats. Health regulators and lawmakers faced loud protests at…

A minimally invasive procedure that uses electrical pulses to target cancer cells may help make surgery an option for unresectable, locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients, researchers said here.

In a…

Patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer had a twofold increase in progression-free survival (PFS) when treated with an investigational folate conjugate, a phase II randomized trial showed.

Median PFS increased from 2.7…

The way lung cancer patients feel around the time they’re diagnosed may be related to how long they survive - even after taking into account objective measures of the…

Quebec’s College of Physicians has found that a doctor who worked at three radiology clinics missed breast cancer in 109 women during routine mammography screening from 2008…

Just one alcoholic drink a day can boost a woman’s risk of breast cancer by about 5 percent, according to a new review of existing research.

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Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues from the UF Shands Cancer Center in Gainesville, Fla., have found that cases of myeloid malignancies are being underreported since a change…