Cancer Research

4 Reasons Not To Have A Prostate Cancer Blood Test

For many men, the down sides of PSA testing outweigh the benefits. Gerald Streiter /Flickr, CC BY-NC By Ian Haines, Monash University ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 7 2014 - 11:04am

Little Benefit, But Older Breast Cancer Patients Still Get Radiation

Women over the age of 70 with certain early-stage breast cancers don't get much benefit from radiation therapy, according to studies, but they still get it.  The reason is because doctors were able to make decisions that overruled the published evide ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2014 - 10:08am

Flow Cytometry: 21st Century Nuclear Medicine For Cancer Shows Promise

Targeted therapy with radiopharmaceuticals- radioactive compounds used in nuclear medicine for diagnosis or treatment- has a lot of potential to more effectively kill cancer cells that have migrated from primary tumors to lymph nodes and secondary organs ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 9:50am

Mobile Phones- No Link To Cancer

Mobile Phones- No Link To Cancer Although some members of the public express concern that mobile phones may cause cancer no credible evidence exists for a causal link between cancer and the weak magnetic fields associated with mobile phones. A paper publi ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 10 2014 - 2:42pm

How Does Prostate Cancer Happen?

Although prostate cancer will affect over 23,000 U.S. men next year, the individual genes that initiate prostate cancer formation are poorly understood, but finding an enzyme that regulates this process could provide excellent new prevention approaches fo ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2014 - 5:30pm

New Genetic Anomalies In Lung Cancer Discovered

Effective treatments for lung cancer has been challenging because so many genetic mutations play a role in the disease. Mutations, by their very definition, are difficult to predict, they occur due to random cosmic rays over time and in other natural ways ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2014 - 2:36pm

Better Breast Cancer Imaging

Diagnostic screening systems for breast cancer like X-ray computed tomography (CT) and mammography are effective at detecting early signs of tumors but they subject patients to ionizing radiation and sometimes inflicting discomfort on women who are underg ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2014 - 9:00am

TIAM1 Breakdown- How Lung Cancer Spreads

The researchers at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute discovered that the ties which lash cells together- controlled by a protein called TIAM1- are chopped up when cell maintenance work goes wrong. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2014 - 11:43am

PSA Test- More Harm Than Good For Prostate Cancer Screening

New prostate screening guidelines recommend that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test not be used to screen for prostate cancer based on evidence that shows uncertain benefits and   an increased risk of harm.  Prostate cancer is the most commonly diag ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2015 - 2:06pm

TRK Mutation Now Target Of Colon Cancer Clinical Trials

The gene TRK was shown to cause a small percentage of colon cancers in 1982 and then in 2013 and 2014, sequencing of tumor samples found fusions of the TRK family of genes in at least 11 tumor types, including lung, breast and melanoma.  The TRK family of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2015 - 11:11pm