Cancer medicine: New, improved, expensive and exploited?
10/18/2014
Two studies published in the October 2014 issue of Health Affairs by a University of Chicago health economist examine spending on oral anti-cancer drugs as well as a federal program designed to...
Personalized ovarian cancer vaccines set for human trials
10/17/2014
Researchers have found a way to identify protein mutations in cancer cells. The method is being used to create personalized vaccines for ovarian cancer.
Personalized ovarian cancer vaccines set for human trials
10/17/2014
Researchers have found a way to identify protein mutations in cancer cells. The method is being used to create personalized vaccines for ovarian cancer.
Prostate cancer's penchant for copper may be a fatal flaw
10/17/2014
Like discriminating thieves, prostate cancer tumors scavenge and hoard copper that is an essential element in the body. But such avarice may be a fatal weakness.
Drug-resistant candida glabrata infection in cancer patients
10/17/2014
Patients with cancer are at risk for fungal infection because of the indwelling medical devices, surgery, immune-suppressing drugs, or antibacterial drugs needed to treat the cancer-associated...
Prostate cancer's penchant for copper may be a fatal flaw
10/17/2014
Like discriminating thieves, prostate cancer tumors scavenge and hoard copper that is an essential element in the body. But such avarice may be a fatal weakness.
Tuning light to kill deep cancer tumors
10/17/2014
An international group of scientists led by Gang Han, PhD, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has combined a new type of nanoparticle with an FDA-approved photodynamic therapy to...
Side effects of cancer prevention surgery can be helped with education program
10/17/2014
More women are having ovary-removing surgery as a cancer prevention measure, but many are often unaware of sexual or psychological side effects of the procedure.
New treatment target identified for aggressive breast cancer
10/16/2014
One of the first-known oncogenes has a protein partner that helps breast cancer proliferate and when it's blocked, so is the cancer, scientists report.
Immune cells in the liver drive fatty liver disease and liver cancer
10/16/2014
Immune cells that migrate to the liver and interact there with liver tissue cells get activated by metabolic stress (e.g.