Drug for Lou Gehrig's disease boosts radiation effectiveness in melanoma laboratory models with brain metastasis
1/14/2015

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University demonstrates that a drug used to treat Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) helps radiation...

Response to NHS England's Cancer Drugs Fund announcement
1/14/2015

NHS England's announcement can be found here.ABPI extremely disappointed with NHSE CDF delisting decision Commenting on NHSE's delisting decision ABPI Chief Executive Stephen Whitehead...

Long duration weightlessness in space induces a blood shift leading to larger central volume expansion and lower blood pressure than expected
1/14/2015

In a study published in The Journal of Physiology, researchers found that in space, the shift of blood and fluid from the lower to the upper body caused by weightlessness is much higher and the...

Drug for Lou Gehrig's disease boosts radiation effectiveness in melanoma laboratory models with brain metastasis
1/14/2015

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University demonstrates that a drug used to treat Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) helps radiation...

In drug-resistant non-Hodgkin lymphomas, 'survival' protein may be a target
1/14/2015

Melbourne researchers have discovered that targeting a cell 'survival' protein could help treat some lymphomas, including those cancers with genetic defects that make them resistant to many existing...

New gene mutations identified that are linked to colorectal cancer in African-Americans
1/14/2015

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African Americans - the population with the highest incidence and death rates of any group...

New insights into the molecular mechanisms of acute myeloid leukemia
1/14/2015

A study by the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found new interactions between two molecules involved in acute myeloid leukaemia...

Lung cancer rates 'decrease with elevation,' study finds
1/14/2015

Can inhaled oxygen cause cancer? A new study published in the open access journal PeerJ finds lung cancer rates fall dramatically with increasing elevation in the Western US.

Sun risk for children of melanoma survivors
1/13/2015

New research has found that the children of melanoma survivors are not receiving optimum sun protection, despite their increased risk of developing melanoma themselves.

Sun risk for children of melanoma survivors
1/13/2015

New research has found that the children of melanoma survivors are not receiving optimum sun protection, despite their increased risk of developing melanoma themselves.