Cancer Research

Agent Orange Linked To Skin Cancer Risk

Military veterans exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange may be at higher risk for certain types of skin cancer, suggests a new report. Agent Orange is a defoliant famously used by the British military during the Malayan Emergency and the U.S. military per ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2014 - 10:18am

Annual Screening Doesn't Improve Breast Cancer Mortality

The precautionary principle says when it comes to health, you err on the side of caution, and a well-publicized effort to get annual screening for breast cancer paid off- but it hasn't lowered mortality rates in women aged 40-59. An annual physical e ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2014 - 11:25pm

Personalized Medicine: Buzzwords Or The Best Way To Treat Cancer?

It's not often that cancer research gets compared to gridlock traffic in New York City but it makes some sense. If we are driving from Florida, we might take I-95 to get there, but if we are driving from California, we would take I-80. It's a ma ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2014 - 5:39pm

A New First Line Of Attack For Lymphoma

A study led by Manchester scientists has shown promising results for a new treatment approach in follicular lymphoma. Follicular lymphoma is a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer, that usually develops slowly but the majority of patients a ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2014 - 12:19pm

New Test May Cut Ovarian Cancer False Positives In Half

The most popular test for ovarian cancer reports false-positives in 94 of 100 diagnosed cases but researchers from the University of Copenhagen and University College London have developed a method able to halve that.  When fully developed, the new test w ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2014 - 10:58am

Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy For Prostate Cancer Is Convenient And Less Expensive But...

A faster and less expensive form of radiotherapy, called Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), for treating prostate cancer may come with a higher rate of urinary complications. The standard external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer is currentl ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2014 - 4:50pm

Cryoablation Plus Nanoparticle-Encapsulated Chemo Makes Cancer Go Boom

 Cryoablation, also called cryosurgery and cryotherapy, is an energy-based, minimally invasive surgical technique that has been investigated to treat a variety of diseases including cancer. It involves freezing the diseased tissue to subzero temperature t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2014 - 9:58am

3,000 Year Old Skeleton Is Earliest Complete Example Of A Human With Cancer

Archaeologists have found the oldest complete example in the world of a human with metastatic cancer in a 3,000 year-old skeleton.  ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2014 - 10:33am

Antihistamines May Become A Cancer Therapy

Daniel H. Conrad, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Virginia Commonwealth University  School of Medicine, and colleagues have uncovered a new connection between allergy and cancer that could potentially lead to therapies involving common ant ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 12:21pm

Peach Extract Found To Inhibit Breast Cancer Metastasis

Laboratory tests conducted at Texas A&M AgriLife Research have found that treatments with peach extract inhibit breast cancer metastasis in mice, likely due to the mixture of phenolic compounds present in the peach extract, they write in the Journal o ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 4:33pm