Experts establish standards for psychosocial care of children with cancer and their families
2/02/2016
Children with cancer and their families often experience considerable psychological and social challenges during and after treatment.
Targeted antibiotics may help protect against infections in men being tested for prostate cancer
2/02/2016
A new review indicates that antimicrobial therapy given before clinicians take transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies to diagnose prostate cancer may lead to lower rates of sepsis, a...
Does radiation therapy improve survival for women with ductal carcinoma in situ?
2/02/2016
Set of risk factors predict which patients with DCIS will see a survival benefit from radiation therapy after breast cancer surgery.
Genetic cause identified in rare pediatric brain tumor
2/02/2016
Diagnosis and treatment decisions for a recently recognized type of children's brain tumor should be improved by the discovery of the genetic mechanism that causes it, say researchers who...
Cancer cells travel together to forge 'successful' metastases
2/02/2016
Traveling cells may be intrinsically resistant to chemotherapy, cell study suggests.There's apparently safety in numbers, even for cancer cells.
10-fold difference worldwide in new cases of, and deaths from, bowel cancer
2/01/2016
Rising rates linked to economic development; adoption of Western lifestyle may be to blameThere's a 10-fold difference worldwide in the numbers of new cases of bowel cancer and deaths from the...
Are BPA-free food containers really safe?
2/01/2016
Plastic products containing bisphenol A are thought to be harmful, so bisphenol S has been introduced as a safer alternative. New studies, however, show they have similar effects.
FDA approves new option for patients with a difficult-to-treat cancer (advanced liposarcoma)
2/01/2016
Eisai Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Halaven® (eribulin mesylate) Injection (0.
Olfactory receptors in the blood Sandalore odorant inhibits growth of leukaemia cells
2/01/2016
Human blood cells have olfactory receptors that respond to Sandalore. This could provide a starting point for new leukaemia therapies, as researchers from Bochum report in in the journal Cell Death...
Czech scientists solved the enigma of coexistence of people with Rh+ and Rh- blood groups
2/01/2016
A new study published in PLoS ONE1 showed that incidence and morbidity of many diseases and disorders correlate negatively with frequencies of Rh+ heterozygotes (i.e.