Why do some cancers suddenly disappear?
By Momna Hejmadi, University of Bath It is hard to believe that some cancers miraculously disappear,…
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Coffee won’t give you cancer, unless it’s very very hot, then it might
By Bernard Stewart, UNSW Australia. The World Health Organisation’s cancer arm made two announcements this week:…
Stanford scientists create ‘guided chemotherapy missiles’ that target cancer cells and spare healthy ones
By Amy Adams. Latching chemotherapy drugs onto proteins that seek out tumours could provide a…
Cancer-preventing protein finds its own way in our DNA
Geneticists from KU Leuven, Belgium, have shown that tumour protein TP53 knows exactly where to…
Aspirin may increase survival after colon cancer
It is well known that aspirin has analgesic and fever-reducing properties. However, this drug may also…
“Any exercise better than none” to improve ovarian cancer survival
Knowing how much exercise is enough to prevent health problems can be confusing, but two…
High levels of education linked to heightened brain tumour risk
A university degree is linked to a heightened risk of developing a brain tumour, suggests…
‘Holy grail’ of breast cancer prevention in high-risk women may be in sight
Australian researchers have discovered that an existing medication could have promise in preventing breast cancer…
Probing proteins’ 3-D structures suggests existing drugs may work for many cancers
Distant mutations that seemed unimportant now considered major contenders for driving tumour growth Examining databases…
Starving cancer cells by blocking their metabolism
Scientists have found a way to starve liver cancer cells by blocking a protein that…