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Shape of tumor may affect whether cells can metastasize
4/29/2016
Only a few cells in a cancerous tumor are able to break away and spread to other parts of the body, but the curve along the edge of the tumor may play a large role in activating these tumor-seeding...
Study explains how low testosterone raises diabetes risk
4/29/2016
Doctors have long known that men with low testosterone are at greater risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
Designing effective new drugs, especially drugs to fight cancer, demands that you know as much as you can about the molecular workings of cancer growth.
African American women with ovarian cancer - can obesity mask early symptoms?
4/29/2016
African American women with ovarian cancer are more likely to die from the disease than are White women and they are also much more likely to be obese.
Servier announced that the European Commission has granted a Marketing Authorisation for LONSURF® (trifluridine/tipiracil), formerly known as TAS‐102, in the European Union (EU) for the...
Exposure to particulate air pollutants associated with numerous cancers
4/29/2016
Researchers have found that long-term exposure to environmental pollutants was associated with increased risk of mortality for many types of cancer in an elderly Hong Kong population.
A long-noncoding RNA regulates repair of DNA breaks in triple-negative breast cancer cells
4/29/2016
Findings give 'new insight' into biology of tough-to-treat breast cancer.The discovery of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) has dramatically changed the understanding of the biology of diseases such...
New gene testing technology finds cancer risks 'hiding in plain sight'
4/29/2016
A research team led by an award-winning genomicist at Western University has developed a new method for identifying mutations and prioritizing variants in breast and ovarian cancer genes, which will...
Gut bacteria may predict risk of life-threatening infections following chemotherapy
4/29/2016
Study could help physicians choose care path for some cancer patients.A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota and Nantes University Hospital in France shows that the...
Breakthrough in the treatment of an inherited genetic disease: Pompe disease
4/29/2016
Scientists at the Universities of York and Leiden have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of an inherited genetic disorder which damages muscle and nerve cells in the body.