A major discovery could open the door to “one-fits-all” cancer drugs that can tackle many different forms of the disease.

A solution to the world’s worst case of ongoing mass poisoning, linked to rising cancer rates in Southern Asia, has been developed by researchers from Queen’s University Belfast. Currently over 70 million people in Eastern India and Bangladesh, experience involuntary arsenic exposure from consuming water and rice; the main staple food in […]

The Louisiana Cancer Foundation is known for promoting quality of life for cancer patients and their families while also providing the citizens of Louisiana with accurate and up-to-date information on …

The key points from the latest release are: Performance on the five standards has remained around their highest recorded levels, during the period April to June 2008, namely: - 99.9% of patients were seen within 2 […]

Elekta recently announced that it has received CE Mark clearance to distribute Elekta Compact(TM), the latest addition to its line of treatment systems, offering clinicians an easy to implement, more affordable solution for radiation therapy. CE Mark clearance from the European Union certifies […]

Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a drug development company focused on developing next generation proprietary targeted medicines for cancer treatment, announced the publication of preclinical data in Nature that support the premise that Hedgehog proteins play an important role in supporting tumor growth in Hedgehog-expressing solid tumors through a paracrine mechanism of action.

Researchers running cancer trials are often critical of the Research Ethics Committee (REC) process they have to go through to get their trials approved, complaining that it’s too complex, burdensome and sometimes unreasonable. In the UK only 17% of research study applications are given immediate favourable opinion by RECs.

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Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center recently participated in a pilot study with the Montreal Neurological Institute that suggests a certain type of MRI scanning can detect when a patient is failing brain tumor treatment before symptoms appear. The results of the study pave the way for a proactive […]

In the current monster-sized issue of Vogue , my producer, Ruth, while killing time on the Delta shuttle on our way from New York to Boston for a shoot this week, uncovered a blogworthy story buried in the …