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A new type of personalized cancer therapy in which immune cells are harvested from patients’ tumors, grown in the lab and infused back into patients showed dramatic results in…

Cancer doctors should consider the financial as well as the medical impact of treatment for patients as healthcare costs continue to grow faster than the overall economy, according…

The use of chemotherapy before surgery to remove ovarian cancer has increased dramatically in recent decades, particularly among certain patients, according to a new analysis from Fox…

Green tea and its extracts have been widely touted as potential treatments for cancer, as well as several other diseases. But scientists have struggled to explain how…

Circumcision is performed for various reasons, including those that are based on religion, aesthetics, or health. New research indicates that the procedure may help prevent prostate…

The suppression of two genes reduce breast cancer tumor formation and metastasis by interfering with blood vessel formation and recruitment, report scientists from Houston Methodist and five…

Researchers have concluded that providing better access to health care may lead to the overuse of mammograms for women who regularly see a primary care physician and…

A new analysis has found that certain cancers are more concentrated in areas with high poverty, while other cancers arise more often in…

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls their ability to invade nearby tissues in a…

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today report a discovery that they hope will lead to the development of a powerful new way of…

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a mutated gene common to adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) tumors - the first known unique molecular…

The heaviest users of cell phones may be at higher than average risk of being diagnosed with a brain tumor, according to a recent French…

A pair of Yale Cancer Center interventional studies involving breast cancer survivors found that lifestyle changes in the form of healthy eating…

About 70 percent of women who have both breasts removed following a breast cancer diagnosis do so despite a very low risk of facing cancer…

RAPID RESISTANCE to vemurafenib - a treatment for a type of advanced melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer - could be prevented by blocking a…

Highly-trained dogs are able to detect prostate cancer in urine with 98 percent accuracy, according to a study presented May 18 at the annual meeting of the American Urological…

Minimally invasive robot-assisted surgery, which has become the main choice for surgically removing cancerous prostate glands during recent years, is as safe…

Researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center’s Seidman Cancer Center will present findings from a study that found the presence of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, a type…

Despite claims suggesting otherwise, inappropriate cancer patient demands are few and very rarely lead to unnecessary tests and treatments from their health care providers, according to new…

While large genetic testing panels promise to uncover clues about patients’ DNA, a team of researchers from Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center (ACC)has found that…

More than 60 years ago Otto Warburg recognized that cancer cells differ from normal cells in the metabolic pathway they use for the oxidation of sugar. Rather than the…

Treating older men with early-stage prostate cancer who also have other serious underlying health problems with aggressive therapies such as surgery or radiation therapy…

Cervical cancer rates in the United States are higher than previously believed, particularly among 65- to 69-year-old women and African-American women, according to a study…

Rates of cervical cancer in American women may be higher than previously thought, and the disease may arise most often at an age when adequately screened…

Biomedical engineering researchers have developed an anti-cancer drug delivery method that essentially smuggles the drug into a cancer cell before triggering its release. The method can be…