New technology to address hair loss during chemotherapy treatment
11/01/2014
Leading manufacturer of scalp cooling equipment Paxman Coolers is to fund research into the science behind hair loss during chemotherapy treatmentA patient wears a scalp cooler for 30 minutes...
The effectiveness of counseling cancer patients by phone still unknown
11/01/2014
Increasingly, cancer care respects the fact that a patient's body is only part of the system that requires treatment.
Clinical practice guidelines address multimodality treatment for esophageal cancer
10/31/2014
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has released new clinical practice guidelines for treating cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction (area where the esophagus meets the stomach).
Scientists trigger self-destruct switch in lung cancer cells
10/31/2014
Cancer Research UK scientists have found a drug combination that can trigger the self-destruct process in lung cancer cells - paving the way for new treatments, according to research that will be...
New discovery by UCLA researchers could lead to more targeted head and neck cancer therapies
10/31/2014
UCLA scientists have discovered for the first time that a protein usually linked to rare neurological disorders is also associated with human papilloma virus (HPV) positive head and neck cancers.
New technology on the way to aid cancer suffers who lose their hair after chemotherapy
10/31/2014
Cancer suffers who lose their hair as a consequence of chemotherapy will benefit from a major research project that will improve the scalp cooling technology that prevents hair loss.
Although rare, breast and colorectal cancers are more aggressive in children
10/31/2014
Breast and colorectal cancers rarely occur in children, but when they do, these conditions are more precarious, according to a pair of National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) studies presented this week at...
'Yorkie and Scalloped' - genes that prime stem cells for fighting infection
10/31/2014
'Lineage specifying cells' are a newly discovered cell type that activate the maturation of stem cells. Now, two genes have been linked with this maturation system.
New, safer way of genome editing cures hemophilia in mice
10/31/2014
The ability to pop a working copy of a faulty gene into a patient's genome is a tantalizing goal for many clinicians treating genetic diseases.
Clinical practice guidelines address multimodality treatment for esophageal cancer
10/31/2014
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has released new clinical practice guidelines for treating cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction (area where the esophagus meets the stomach).