ASCO: Trial creates 6 percent weight loss after breast cancer treatment
5/28/2015
Carrying extra body fat increases the risk for diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and also increases risk of cancer recurrence after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Importance of clinically actionable results in genetic panel testing for cancer
5/28/2015
Authors cite urgent need for larger studies in diverse populations to provide accurate cancer risk estimatesWhile advances in technology have made multigene testing, or "panel testing," for...
Hodgkin's lymphoma: The treatment can have late sequelae
5/28/2015
Hodgkin's lymphoma--cancer of the lymph nodes--arises in more than 150 children and adolescents in Germany each year.
Scorpion venom has toxic effects against cancer cells
5/28/2015
In the venom from the Centruroides tecomanus scorpion from Colima, south-west state of Mexico, over a hundred proteins have been found and identified a "possible" toxic effect against cancer cells...
Study could explain why ovarian cancer treatments fail
5/28/2015
Ovarian cancer cells can lock into survival mode and avoid being destroyed by chemotherapy, an international study reports.
Diagnosing cancer with help from bacteria
5/28/2015
Engineered probiotics can detect tumors in the liverEngineers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have devised a new way to detect cancer that has spread to the liver, by...
Researchers identify origin of chromosomal oddity in some cancer cells
5/28/2015
Surveys of the genomic terrain of cancer have turned up a curious phenomenon in some tumor cells: a massive rearrangement of DNA in one or a few chromosomes, thought to be produced during a single...
Scientists identify key to preventing secondary cancers
5/28/2015
Leading scientists from the University of Sheffield and University of Copenhagen have identified a possible key to preventing secondary cancers in breast cancer patients, after discovering an enzyme...
Right before a cell starts to divide to give birth to a daughter cell, its biochemical machinery unwinds the chromosomes and copies the millions of protein sequences comprising the cell's DNA, which...
Programming probiotics for early detection of liver cancer metastases
5/28/2015
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have described a new method for detecting liver cancer metastases in mice.