Researchers have been battling to find the cure for cancer since we began to understand what cancer really was. A cure is the ultimate goal, but most medical professionals and patients would... Read more
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new strategy for attacking cancer cells that could fundamentally alter the way doctors treat and prevent the deadly di... Read more
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an effective treatment for easily accessible tumors such as oral and skin cancer But the procedure, which uses lasers to activate special drugs called photosens... Read more
A revolution in cancer treatment could soon be underway following a breakthrough that may lead to a dramatic improvement in cancer survival rates. A new study at the University of Warwick, p... Read more
Cell Therapy Shows Remarkable Ability to Eradicate Cancer in Clinical Study Investigators from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have reported more encouraging news about one of the mos... Read more
As if being sick weren’t bad enough, there’s also the fear of frequent injections, side effects and overdosing on you medication. Now a team of researchers from University of Cop... Read more
Two researchers at the University of Rochester have discovered the chemical that makes naked mole rats cancer-proof. Their research paper is being published today in the journal Nature. The... Read more
New chemistry could cure human cancers when funding is secured Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and... Read more
This type of cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide after lung and breast If things pan out correctly, then a clinical trial launched by a team of British researchers could come as... Read more
Only the tumour cells die New research findings show how it may be possible to render cancer tumours harmless without affecting the other cells and tissues in the body. The findings apply to... Read more
This research will help our understanding of the disease Cancer Research UK scientists have shown that an enzyme can re-expand the insides of blood vessels allowing more drugs and large anti... Read more
Retinoids have already transformed one rare type of fatal leukemia into a curable disease An antidepressant combined with a drug derived from vitamin A could be used to treat a common adult... Read more
Cancer: Antibodies Can Directly Target Oncoproteins Inside Cancer Cells to Suppress Aggressive Cancer Growth Scientists at A*A*STAR‘s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) hav... Read more
One of the latest attempts to boost the body’s defenses against cancer is called adoptive cell transfer, in which patients receive a therapeutic injection of their own immune cells. Th... Read more
Image by EikeR via Flickr A common cause of cancer is when cells are altered or mutated and the body’s tumor suppressor genes are switched off. Scientists at the University of Nottingham hav... Read more
