Cancer Weakness Discovered: New Method Pushes Cancer Cells Into Remission
Cancer cells delete DNA when they go to the dark side, so a team of doctors and engineers targeted the ‘backup plans’ that run essential cell…
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Fighting Cancer With Magnetic Bacteria
Researchers are working to determine the best way for anti-cancer drugs to get to the tumors they are supposed to treat. One option is to…
Mayo Clinic Researchers Reveal Critical New Insight Into Cancer
The study provides key information about gliomas’ size and growth rate. An important new hint for preventing and treating brain tumors known as gliomas has…
A Stanford-Developed Device May Open Up Promising New Possibilities for the Treatment of Cancer
The new, wearable device monitors tumor size. A compact, autonomous device with a stretchable and flexible sensor has been developed by Stanford University engineers to…
Stanford Researchers Make a Cancer Breakthrough – Clever Synthesis of Rare Cancer-Fighting Compound
A new and improved way to produce an acclaimed cancer-fighting compound. Researchers at Stanford University have found a rapid and sustainable approach to synthesizing a…
Groundbreaking Method “Starves” Highly-Lethal Cancer Tumors of Energy, Eradicating Them
New breakthrough in treating glioblastoma, a currently incurable type of cancer. Ground-breaking research at Tel Aviv University successfully eradicated glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain…
Fewer Side Effects: A New Potential Cancer Treatment Target
Researchers have discovered a potential new cancer treatment target. University of Gothenburg researchers have identified a previously undiscovered mechanism that regulates tumor development in mice and…
Researchers Discover a Key Weak Spot in a Deadly Childhood Cancer
A new study identifies an Achilles’ heel in neuroblastoma. 15% of children who die from cancer are victims of neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that arises…
Treating Cancer and Heart Disease Simultaneously: Key Cancer Metastasis Molecule Identified
A new study discovers a common mechanism for atherosclerosis and cancer metastasis. A key molecule for cancer metastasis has been identified as a molecule also…
40-Year Mystery: Doctors Solve a Case of Unexplained Finger Pain
The cause of more than 40 years of unexplained pain was revealed to be a rare under-fingernail tumor. In a case report being presented at…
Why Do Cancer Cells Need Fat?
A study explains why many cancer cells need the import of fat. The unexpected causes of cancer cells’ frequent reliance on fat imports are being…
Scientists Discover a Massacre: “Assassin” Cells Murder Innocent Cells
University of Haifa research has identified killer cells. A process that involves the “murder” of living, newly-generated cells has been discovered for the first time…
Cheap Fluorescent Compounds That Can Help Treat Cancer
Researchers have created low-cost substances for tumor therapy and diagnosis. Researchers from the Ural Federal University and the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of…
A New Approach to Treating a Lethal Type of Cancer
The research could be used to develop more targeted kidney cancer drugs. Researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have discovered a connection between reduced mitochondrial content…
New “Masked” Cancer Drug Kills Cancer Cells With Minimal Side Effects
Scientists have created a new powerful “masked” cancer drug. Numerous cancer treatments are notoriously harsh on the body; they assault healthy cells simultaneously with tumor…
New Discovery Could Lead to Improved Cancer Treatment
The finding could improve cancer immunotherapy, a promising therapy that targets cancer cells using the body’s own immune system rather than radiation. Previously regarded merely…
Encouraging Tumor Growth: How Breast Cancer Causes Diabetes
Together, diabetes and breast cancer can pose a serious risk Type 2 diabetes and breast cancer would seem to be very different conditions, sharing nothing but…
Cornell Scientists Have Identified a New Incredibly Common Subtype of Prostate Cancer
A new and very prevalent kind of prostate cancer A recent study by a group of researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and…
