Cancer Research

A Genetic Cause Of Common Breast Tumors

A team of researchers made a seminal breakthrough in understanding the molecular basis of fibroadenoma, one of the most common breast tumors diagnosed in women. Led by Professors Teh Bin Tean, Patrick Tan, Tan Puay Hoon and Steve Rozen, the team used adva ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 12:00pm

Europe Is Putting Its Cancer Research At Risk

The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) has expressed concern that the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation could make cancer research impossible and add a significant burden to both doctors and cancer patients. The proposed wording of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 8:11am

Epigenetics Implicated In Mouse Cancer

If you go by stories of epigenetics and the microbiome, we are on the verge of curing all disease. There hasn't been this much hype since human embryonic stem cells and the human genome project were going to cure all ailments in 2000. But behind the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 2:00pm

Cachexia Is The Real Cause Of Death In One Third Of Patients With Cancer- Study

It isn't the tumor that kills up to a third of cancer patients, according to a new study, it's the indirect effects triggered by a process that is heavily studied not to fight cancer, but to fight obesity: the conversion of white fat tissue into ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 9:04am

High-Dose Estrogen Birth Control Linked To Increased Breast Cancer Risk

Women who recently used birth control pills containing high-dose estrogen and a few other formulations had an increased risk for breast cancer compared to women using some other formulations did not, according to new data published in Cancer Research. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2014 - 9:14am

The Retinoblastoma Reason Brain Tumors Are More Common In Men

A paper in The Journal of Clinical Investigation helps explain why brain tumors occur more often in males and frequently are more harmful than similar tumors in females. Glioblastomas, the most common malignant brain tumors, are diagnosed twice as often i ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2014 - 8:00pm

Sleep Apnea Does Not Cause Cancer

Obstructive sleep apnea, in which people stop breathing for short periods while sleeping. Breathing pauses last from seconds to minutes and may occur 30 times per hour, after which normal breathing then starts again, often with a snoring or choking sound. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2014 - 2:00pm

PALB2 Gene Increases Risk Of Breast Cancer To 1 In 3 By Age 70

BRCA1/2 genes are the most important breast cancer risks but after that, women with mutations in the PALB2 gene have on average a one in three chance of developing breast cancer by the age of seventy, according to a report in the New England Journal of Me ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2014 - 10:00pm

Is Tumor Metastasis Prevention On The Horizon?

Cancer is the blanket term for over a hundred diseases where abnormal cells divide and invade tissues through blood and lymph systems. The extra cells are often detected in the form of a tumor that people notice as their first symptom, and those can be be ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 12 2014 - 12:25pm

War On Cancer 40 Years Later: Most Survival Rates Have Gone Up, But Not This One

Since President Richard Nixon declared a War on Cancer over 40 years ago, survival rates have improved dramatically and cancer rates have even gone down, despite claims that everything from DDT to nuclear energy to genetically modified foods would cause a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2014 - 1:30am