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For people with cancer of the larynx or lower pharynx, continuing to smoke or drink alcohol make it less likely that they’ll survive, while eating a diet rich in vegetables…

Women who survive a bout with breast cancer are at increased risk of developing cancers of the lung, stomach, and colon, among several others, new research suggests.

The elevated risk…

People who gain less protection from cancer by eating broccoli may be able to compensate for the difference in their genetic make-up by eating ‘super broccoli’, a variety with higher levels of the…

Scientists have devised a strategy to treat tumors by selectively targeting and killing the malignant cells. A new preclinical study, published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, has applied…

More patients with stage III colon cancer are receiving chemotherapy after surgery, with an associated significant increase in 5-year survival, according to a study in the December…

A new treatment for pancreatic cancer developed by clinical researchers of Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center substantially reduces the size of tumors and lowers the risk…

Researchers have developed a new line of prostate cancer cells that they hope will provide a better model to study the disease.

This new cancer-cell line has already…

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have discovered new mechanisms developed by cancer cells to become resistant to various chemotherapy drugs.

The findings, which could point the way to new approaches for…

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have identified a molecule that stimulates the aggressive growth of prostate cancer.

The molecule, Ack1, a member of the growth-promoting…

Patients suffering from advanced head and neck cancer affecting their larynx can maintain vocal function by undergoing a combination of radiation therapy and…

The results of studies “with thorough passive smoking exposure assessment” indicate that passive smoking raises the risk of breast cancer, especially in premenopausal women, to a similar degree as active…

Small amounts of iron and calcium in the diet or in the form of supplements may play an important role in the development of lung cancer, especially among…

“The treatment of breast cancer when the patient is pregnant does not increase the risk of congenital anomalies”, assures Dr. Guillermo Lopez, director of the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at…

Men with high-risk prostate cancer fare better when they are treated with at least 12 months of hormone reduction therapy rather than with a shorter duration of treatment, new research…

Surgery is the most effective way to treat tumors that grow in the liver. But for most patients, the tumor is growing in a way that it can’t be removed.…

Cancer of the pancreas is the number five in the list of deaths due to cancers in Spain and the third causing deaths due to digestive tumour.

Moreover, the survival rate for patients…

Even if patients have relatively low prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, a biological marker for the disease, abnormalities detected by digital rectal examination (DRE) can help identify prostate cancer,…

Clinicians and basic scientists from academia, private practice, government and industry come together today for a week-long multi-disciplinary symposium in interventional oncology, a rapidly growing area of medicine involving minimally invasive…

Vitamin A deficiency has been associated with the development of lung cancer in laboratory studies. However, clinical trials of natural and synthetic derivatives of vitamin A, called retinoids,…

Women who have had pre-cancerous cells removed remain at higher than average risk of developing cervical cancer in the 20 years following treatment, says research…

An olive-oil based herbal extract preparation called Zyflamend suppresses the growth of prostate cancer cells and induces prostate cancer cells to self-destruct, according to a new study.

Zyflamend has the ability,…

Treatment with deguelin, a chemical found in various plants, may help prevent lung cancer caused by cigarette smoking, the results of an animal study suggest.

Dr. Ho-Young Lee, from the…

A new study reports that a loss of genes on chromosome 1 or chromosome 11 raises the risk of death from the children’s cancer neuroblastoma, even when other…

To help patients and their families understand how radiation therapy works in conjunction with other treatments to cure bladder cancer, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology has…

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues shows that a drug originally used to treat breast cancer may help combat the severe…