Molecularly shutting down cancer cachexia
Healthy fat tissue is essential for extended survival in the event of tumour-induced wasting syndrome…
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Researcher develops effective fasting tool against cancer
Fasting is a tool for effective cancer treatment. A new study shows that the right…
Viral-based therapy for bone cancer
Certain cancers, including osteosarcoma (bone cancer), are unresponsive to chemotherapy, making disease prognosis very poor.…
Study links two genes to breast cancer survival
Testing for the activity of two genes could pick out women who are at increased…
Retinoic acid suppresses colorectal cancer development
Retinoic acid, a compound derived in the body from vitamin A, plays a critical role…
Important advance made with new approach to ‘control’ cancer, not eliminate it
Researchers have created a new drug delivery system that could improve the effectiveness of an…
Smokers with newly discovered genetic markers have higher lung cancer risk
University of Hawai’i Cancer Center researchers have discovered new genetic markers associated with a fast…
New research reveals cancers need a ‘perfect storm’ of conditions to develop
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time the ‘perfect storm’ of conditions that cells need to…
Oxygen can impair cancer immunotherapy in mice
Researchers have identified a mechanism in mice by which anticancer immune responses are inhibited within…
A decade on, vaccine has halved cervical cancer rate
By The BBC. The world’s first cancer vaccine was administered in Australia exactly 10 years…