Telomere length is indicator of blood count recovery in treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia
The chemotherapy treatments necessary to treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in children can be grueling…
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New target found in search for leukaemia drug
Peter Mac researchers have made another important discovery in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML), showing how…
Partners of patients with melanoma find new cancers with skin exam training
Skin-check partners of patients with melanoma effectively performed skin self-examinations and identified new melanomas as…
New genetic findings help explain inherited predisposition to myeloma
Researchers have identified eight new genetic variations in the human genome that could be linked…
Added radiotherapy after surgery for gastric cancer no better than chemotherapy alone
Post-operative treatment intensification with chemoradiotherapy does not achieve better outcomes when compared to post-operative chemotherapy…
Long Read: How the mafia is causing cancer
By Ian Birrell – Mosaic Science . When doctors in rural Italy began to see a…
Metastasis: Unexpected findings reveal insight into how cancer spreads in the body
Cancer cells appear to depend on an unusual survival mechanism to spread around the body,…
Aggressiveness of acute myeloid leukaemia elucidated
Antoine Peters and colleagues at the Basel University Children’s Hospital (UKBB) have discovered why acute…
Exercise helps overcome cancer depression and anxiety
World-first research presented at the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Conference in Adelaide…
Threshold for pre-emptive surgery to curb ovarian cancer risk should be halved
The current threshold for pre-emptive surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes of women…