A new brachytherapy technique using a shield that rotates in a corkscrew pattern inside a tube-shaped intrauterine applicator could improve cervical cancer treatments, boosting the radiation dose...
Breast cancer drugs could be used to target leukaemia's Achilles' heel
11/24/2015
Drugs that have shown promise in treating breast and ovarian cancer patients who carry the BRCA 'cancer genes' could be used to improve the outlook for other types of cancer such as leukaemia...
Football strengthens the bones of men with prostate cancer
11/24/2015
Men with prostate cancer run the risk of brittle bones as a side-effect of their treatment.
A tumor that can unroll: Engineers create new technology for understanding cancer growth
11/24/2015
A team of U of T engineers is unrolling the mysteries of cancer -- literally.
New research suggests a novel route in the fight against cancer
11/24/2015
In a new study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the University of Surrey have uncovered a collection of important proteins that carry out and regulate critical...
Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Taking knowledge to Indigenous communities, Australia
11/24/2015
Cancer Australia is today launching Our Lungs, Our Mob, using interactive touchscreen technology to increase knowledge and awareness of lung cancer focussing on rural and remote Aboriginal and...
Identification of barrier that prevents progression of benign kidney tumors to malignant disease
11/24/2015
Research from investigators at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey examining the inner workings of a rare non-cancerous (benign) kidney tumor has revealed a mechanism to prevent this type of...
Results of EORTC trial 26101 presented at The 20th Annual Scientific Meeting and Education Day of the Society for Neuro-Oncology showed that bevacizumab treatment in patients with progressive...
Netupitant/palonosetron for prevention of nausea and vomiting: Added benefit not proven
11/24/2015
Certain advantages in side effects, but equivalence of main effect has not been proven.
Forecasting the path of breast cancer in a patient
11/24/2015
USC researchers have developed a mathematical model to forecast metastatic breast cancer survival rates using techniques usually reserved for weather prediction, financial forecasting and surfing the...