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A new analysis has found that a considerable proportion of patients with end-stage or terminal cancer do not benefit from palliative radiation therapy (radiotherapy) despite spending most of…

A new study finds that Hispanics live in areas with more limited availability of colonoscopies and sigmoidoscopies for colorectal cancer screening. Published early online in CANCER,…

Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered that breast stem cells are exquisitely sensitive to the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone, a finding that opens…

As overall cancer rates are declining in the United States, thyroid cancer counters the trend. It’s being diagnosed more frequently, especially in women. Women are three times more likely than men to develop…

A research team at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has shown in a study that two closely related enzymes could be targets for the treatment of…

Scientists in China have demonstrated how arsenic - a favourite murder weapon in the Middle Ages - destroys deadly blood cancer by targeting and killing specific proteins that keep…

Researchers have identified a group of genes that are especially active in lung cancer patients - even in healthy tissue - and said they may be used to…

It’s not hard to find a breast cancer survivor who thinks routine mammograms are a good idea.

Almost any woman who had a cancerous tumor detected in her…

Being obese may increase the cost of surgery for men with prostate cancer - at least the more traditional forms of the procedure, a new study suggests.

Researchers found…

Oral, head and neck cancers — most of which are preventable — account for approximately 3 percent of all cancer cases in the United States, according to the American Cancer…

Younger breast cancer patients who have a mutation in the well-known BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are four times as likely to get cancer in the other breast as most patients, researchers…

Women treated with chest radiation for cancers in childhood or adolescence are at increased risk for breast cancer at a young age, and their risk does not appear…

Women with breast cancer before age 55 who carry an inherited mutation in the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 are four…

To prevent breast cancer you need to take action. Otherwise, your odds of getting breast cancer, the disease women fear the most, are 1 in 8.

In spite of the…

Breast cancer prevention factors into most of Sasha Brown’s eating decisions. The 30-year-old mother of two from Somerville, Massachusetts, lost her mother to breast cancer when she was…

An “Early Stage” breast cancer is sometimes referred as Stage 1 breast cancer. In such cases, the affected region is less than 2-2.5 centimetres in diameter. However, cancer…

One of the most prominent cases of cancer in women, which we hear today, is breast cancer. Cases of breast cancer have increased at an alarming rate and…

Modern women always have a fear of breast cancer. Whilst average woman has around 12% risk of getting affected with breast cancer, others have 85% chance of getting…

Christine Ambrosone, MD, Chair of Cancer Prevention and Control at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), has received a grant for $165,000 from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation…

Perhaps no one can appreciate the importance of early cancer detection as much as Izora Armstrong. That’s because UVA Cancer Center researchers, using a first-of-its-kind hybrid breast…

Renuka Iyer, MD, of the Department of Medicine, and Dan Iancu, MD, of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Roswell Park Cancer…

Cancer treatment typically involves surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy or biological therapy. An oncologist may use one therapy or a combination of methods, depending on the type and…

Work underway at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital seeks to harnesses the body’s own immune cells known as natural killer, or NK, cells to help…

Canisius College and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) announce the launch of “Check Yo Nutz,” the first comprehensive testicular cancer awareness campaign…

A biomedical scientist at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada is exploring how ultrasound and light can be used to measure the effectiveness of cancer treatment in…