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Maintaining bone density could be a key to decreasing the spread of cancer in women with locally advanced breast cancer, according to research at Washington University…

Gefitinib, the once-promising drug formerly approved as a second line treatment for lung cancer, also known as Iressa, enhanced the effectiveness of hormonal…

Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a drug combination that kills leukemia cells by shutting down their energy source and…

Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators say they have conclusively demonstrated that a substantial subset of colon cancer patients should not receive chemotherapy because it provides no clinical…

Adding a little extra chemotherapy after finishing the initial course helped advanced lung cancer patients live longer without having their tumors grow or come back, researchers reported on Thursday.

Breast cancer patients who get newer scans called magnetic resonance imaging are more likely to opt for mastectomies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

The patients who get mastectomies are not…

Japan’s Eisai Co Ltd said on Friday that its experimental treatment for advanced breast cancer had shown tumour fighting activity in mid-stage trials.

The drug candidate, called E7389, is…

Genetic differences may explain the greater risk for prostate cancer among Caucasian men compared with Hispanic men, which could help clinicians predict who…

A new study presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) suggests that firefighters may be at an increased risk of developing…

Researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found a possible approach to therapy that may make cancer cells more sensitive…

New Study Strengthens Association of Prostate Cancer with Exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam Veterans

As men age, their risk of developing…

Survivors of Childhood Cancers Treated with Cyclophosphamide More Likely to Develop Bladder Cancer Later in Life

Survivors of childhood cancers treated with the chemotherapy…

A chemical reaction in genes that control breast cancer provides a molecular clock that could one day help researchers more accurately determine a woman’s risk for developing breast…

When a person develops cancer, the body’s immune defence is activated to destroy the tumour cells. By removing the most effective defence cells from the body, multiplying…

Men with susceptibility for prostate cancer will soon be identifiable through a simple DNA test. So hope scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, who have shown that…

The addition of an ultrasound examination to mammography for women at high-risk of breast cancer resulted in a higher rate of cancer detection, but also increased the number of…

Studying thousands of patients, Japanese researchers have found a strong link between tooth loss and increased risk of three cancers – esophageal, head and neck,…

Women are living longer after breast cancer but simply surviving is not enough, Pamela Goldberg, Chief Executive, Breast Cancer Campaign, said today.

Speaking at the second Breast…

By inducing a specific gene to increase expression of a key enzyme, vitamin D protects healthy prostate cells from the damage and injuries that can lead…

Adult women who were breast-fed as infants may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who were not breast-fed, unless they were first-born, study findings suggest.

“As…

Telephone counseling may give cervical cancer survivors a boost to their well-being, and possibly their immune function as well, a small study suggests.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found…

A tiny modification called methylation on estrogen receptors prolongs the life of these growth-driving molecules in breast cancer cells, according to research by scientists at Emory University’s Winship…

Researchers at the OU Cancer Institute have identified a new gene that causes cancer. The ground-breaking research appears Monday in Nature’s cancer journal Oncogene.

The gene and its protein, both called RBM3, are…

Breast cancer is a clinically heterogeneous disease that can affect individuals with seemingly identical clinicopathologic parameters differently. This clinical heterogeneity is driven to a large extent by abnormal…

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide ^[1] ; approximately 85% of all lung cancers occur in current or former cigarette smokers ^[2]…