... at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Centre at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered new targets for cancer treatment aimed at blocking a key step in tumour progression...
Tumour cells living in the cross hairs of radiation or chemotherapy may be able to escape death because their self-destruct mechanisms are jammed, say University of Florida scientists writing in a ...
A mini-protein found in sunflower seeds could be the key to stopping tumours spreading in prostate cancer patients, according to QUT researchers. The grants came from Queensland Cancer Research, the ...
Tumours have a unique vulnerability that can be exploited to make them more sensitive to heat and radiation, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report...
... nanometre-sized 'nanoworms' that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body's immune defence system and - like tiny anti-cancer missiles - home in on tumours...
A surgical team in Calgary on Friday extolled the virtues of using a robotic arm to perform groundbreaking surgery to remove a woman's brain tumour.
The first U.S. clinical trial using genetic screening to identify lung tumours likely to respond to targeted therapies supports the use of those drugs as first-line treatment rather than after ...
... Children's Research Hospital investigators have shown that children under 3 years old who have a brain tumour called diffuse pontine glioma (DPG) appear to have a better outcome than older children ...
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an animal model that can test the function of two prominent tumour suppressor genes, p16 and p19, in the ageing process. Scientists knew that both these genes ...
A Tasmanian devil named Cedric may have been successfully immunised against Devil Facial Tumour Disease, providing hope for a vaccine to the deadly condition.
Senator Edward Kennedy will undergo surgery Monday for his brain tumour, according to a statement released by his office.
... immunity to the most common and deadly type of brain tumour may stave off recurrence and more than double survival ... a new study led by researchers in Duke's Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumour Centre...
... designed to kill cancer cells offer a promising strategy for treating incurable brain tumours such as glioblastoma, but the body's natural defences often eliminate the viruses before they can ...
Primary cancer tumours can actually assist in the growth of cancer cells elsewhere in the body, suggests new research.
... on a compound found in cocoa beans slowed growth and accelerated destruction of human tumours in laboratory studies, and should be tested further for cancer chemoprevention or even treatment, say ...
