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A gene well known to stop or suppress cancer plays a role in cancer stem cells, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer…

If having malodorous armpits (called osmidrosis) and goopy earwax isn’t bad enough, a discovery by Japanese scientists may add a more serious problem for women facing…

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have uncovered variation around two genes that are associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer. Testicular cancer is the…

A new study shows that a large majority of patients who present with advanced colorectal cancer that has spread to other organs (stage IV) don’t require immediate surgery to…

Eating red or white meat, including meat cooked at high temperatures, does not increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to a large…

An experimental drug derived from cottonseed shows promise in treating the recurrence of glioblastoma multiforme, widely considered the most lethal brain cancer, said researchers at the University…

Corrupt lifestyles and vices go hand in hand; each feeds the other. But even the worst miscreant needs customary societal amenities to get by. It’s the same with cancer…

Restricting carbohydrates, regardless of weight loss, appears to slow the growth of prostate tumors, according to an animal study being published this week by researchers in the Duke Prostate Center.

Roughly one in five African American women with advanced breast cancer refuse chemotherapy and close to one in four refuse radiation therapy, according to a report in the journal Cancer.

It seems that decreased lung function is a long-term adverse effect of the chemo drug cisplatin in men who have survived testicular cancer.

These days, “testicular cancer has a…

Cholesterol-lowering “statin” drugs, such as Lipitor or Zocor, appear to lower the chances of people with diabetes developing liver cancer, investigators from Texas report.

Diabetics have a higher than…

Roughly one in five African American women with advanced breast cancer refuse chemotherapy and close to one in four refuse radiation therapy, according to a report in the journal Cancer.

Women who start their families early and those who have lots of kids have an increased risk of developing the most common type of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma,…

Nearly 20% of patients with recently diagnosed breast cancer had additional malignant tumors found only by MRI, according to a study performed at Dartmouth Hitchcock…

A new study finds that nearly one in four African American women with late stage breast cancer refused chemotherapy and radiation therapy, potentially life saving therapies. Published…

While young men with prostate cancer have a low risk of dying early, those with advanced forms of cancer do not live as long as older men…

Most cancers are rare in people with Down syndrome, whose overall cancer mortality is below 10 percent of that in the general population. Since they have an extra…

In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at…

The average age of a woman diagnosed with breast cancer is 63, so it is critical to have effective proven, therapies for an older patient population. But…

Older breast cancer patients who got Roche AG’s drug Xeloda all by itself were almost twice as likely to relapse and die than women who got standard chemotherapy,…

Researchers at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) have launched a clinical trial that targets a new treatment combination for the most common type of non-invasive…

Industrial workers who are exposed to the chemical formaldehyde may have a significantly higher risk of dying from blood and lymphatic cancers, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.

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What’s a guy to do? While prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing has been the standard screening tool for prostate cancer for several decades, results of a study recently…

A ground-breaking Canada-wide clinical trial led by Dr. Katherine Borden, at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal,…

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how a gene crucial in triggering the spread of breast cancer is turned on and off. The…