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Cancer evolution: how the laws of nature could predict tumor growth
1/19/2016

Researchers have created a mathematical model to predict how cancer might evolve over time, based on the same patterns that drive natural laws, such as the brightness of stars.

'Simple rules' calculate ovarian cancer risk
1/19/2016

Scientists have formulated a system that uses ultrasound images to accurately work out the likelihood of an ovarian growth being cancerous.

'Simple rules' calculate ovarian cancer risk
1/19/2016

Scientists have formulated a system that uses ultrasound images to accurately work out the likelihood of an ovarian growth being cancerous.

Scientists find new gene fault behind ovarian cancer
1/18/2016

Women who carry an inherited fault in the gene BRIP1 are over three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than those without the fault, according to a study published in the Journal of the...

Scientists find new gene fault behind ovarian cancer
1/18/2016

Women who carry an inherited fault in the gene BRIP1 are over three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than those without the fault, according to a study published in the Journal of the...

New research highlights fertility concerns of young adult and adolescent cancer survivors
1/18/2016

Nearly half of young adult survivors of adolescent cancers-more young men than women-report uncertainty about their fertility, according to the results of a new study.

Important regulator of immune system decoded
1/18/2016

Plasma cells play a key role in our immune system. Now scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria, and at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) in...

Study shows pregabalin does little to ease cancer bone pain
1/18/2016

A drug used to treat bone pain caused by cancer makes little difference to patients' well-being, new research shows.

Scientists track chemo with fluorescent nanoparticles
1/18/2016

Scientists develop a way to track cell-by-cell progress of chemotherapy - to see where the drug goes and how long it takes to get there - using fluorescent peptide nanoparticles.

From tamoxifen to dendrogenin A: Discovery of a mammalian tumor suppressor metabolite
1/18/2016

Researchers from the Cancer Research Center of Toulouse have conducted the first comprehensive review on dendrogenin A (DDA).