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A drug approved to treat a range of conditions may also work to prevent lung cancer in people who have given up smoking, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

The drug,…

By examining expression of every human gene in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) compared to normal kidney cells, researchers at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida have discovered gene…

Heavy alcohol use and binge drinking could increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in men, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests.

In a…

In the July issue of European Urology, the scientific journal of the European Association of Urology (EAU), S. Eggener et al. discussed in a recent study…

Researchers have identified an important cancer gene that could lead to more effective drugs being developed to fight paediatric high grade glioma, a disease which currently has a poor prognosis.

The…

Experts who studied almost 13,000 cell phone users over 10 years, hoping to find out whether the mobile devices cause brain tumors, said on Sunday their…

People with papillary thyroid cancer that hasn’t spread beyond the thyroid gland appear to have good outcomes regardless of whether or not they are treated, new research shows.

Papillary…

Several years ago, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and other laboratories made a paradoxical discovery regarding the Akt molecular pathway, a popular target for…

Researchers at Georgetown Lombard Comprehensive Cancer Center have been able to show, in mice, how just a little adjustment in the expression of two common…

Obese women should aware that they have not only the risk of breast cancer, but also more likely to have larger tumor…

Among African Americans, colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer-related death. With the proper screening, it has a 90 percent cure rate, yet screening rates are much…

Immortality and uncontrolled cell division are the fundamental differences between cancer cells and normal cells.

A widely held explanation for these differences is that the biological clocks in cancer cells…

More individualized therapy and better supportive care helped push the survival for children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to 71 percent three years after…

Where a person carries their extra weight may influence their risk of pancreatic cancer. People - especially women - with more fat around their waistline are at increased risk…

A new analysis finds that the costs of treating cancer have nearly doubled over the past two decades and that the shares of these costs…

A new study indicates that patients aged 75 years or older who have confined kidney tumors do not live longer if they have…

A study by researchers from the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) identifies a potential new combination therapy to…

British scientists have found five common genetic factors linked to the risk of developing breast cancer, giving researchers a better understanding of its causes and clues for developing more…

You can keep on chugging coffee without worrying about whether your java will increase your risk of colon cancer, according to new research.

The same appears true for soda,…

When Cedric Skillom’s mother, Lynda, 55, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, he was devastated by the news, but he never imagined that the largest cancer killer…

Americans are being “bombarded” with chemicals, gases and radiation that can cause cancer, and the federal government must do far more to protect them, presidential cancer advisers said on Thursday.

Cancer researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) have discovered that the ovarian hormone progesterone plays a pivotal role in altering breast stem cells,…

Whether breast cancer should be labeled as an occupational disease is still unclear, researchers behind a new study from China suggest.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide,…

Early life exposure to ultraviolet A light does not cause melanoma in a fish model that previously made that connection, scientists from The University of Texas MD…

The incidence of a certain type of gastric cancer has declined in the last 30 years for all age groups and races, except for whites 25 to 39 years of age,…