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Fingertip-sized sensors to prevent skin cancer
Between your morning commute, coffee break, playing with the kids, or mowing the lawn—how do…
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The Body Deserves Our (Compassionate) Attention
In a busy health care practice, the oncology clinician is faced with many competing demands…
Enlarged prostate could actually be stopping tumour growth, simulations show
For men older than about 60, an enlarged prostate means feeling the urge to make…
Scientists discover potential to prevent cancer in children with neuroblastoma
A team including UNSW Sydney researchers has discovered the link between a cancer-causing gene and a…
A new toolkit for studying how ‘PARP’ activity boosts cancers
A new method developed by scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is…
Bacteria promote lung tumour development, study suggests
MIT cancer biologists have discovered a new mechanism that lung tumours exploit to promote their…
Commonly used anti-rejection drug could be repurposed to treat some liver cancers
Research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in animal models and patient tissues…
Do all chemotherapies have equal long-term heart risk?
In long-term survivors of childhood cancer, cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of early death…
Highly sensitive method to detect potential cancer biomarker
Exosomes regulate intercellular communication in cancers, and are drawing attention as a potential cancer biomarker.…
Protein widely known to fight tumours also boosts cancer growth
Search for a description of “p53” and it becomes clear that this human protein is…