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Obesity promotes pancreatic and breast cancer
Study finds mechanism by which obesity promotes pancreatic and breast cancer Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…
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Researchers identify striking genomic signature shared by 5 types of cancer
National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a striking signature in tumour DNA that occurs…
Nuclear medicine tools could be beneficial against several human cancers
Nuclear medicine tools could be beneficial in the fight against several human cancers. Silvia Jurisson,…
Study finds how diabetes drug metformin inhibits progression of pancreatic cancer
Massachusetts General Hospital investigators may have uncovered a novel mechanism behind the ability of the…
Researchers kill drug-resistant lung cancer with 50 times less chemotherapy
The cancer drug paclitaxel just got more effective. For the first time, researchers from the University of…
Researchers ‘turn off’ most notorious cancer-causing protein
It’s known as the most common cancer-causing protein, directly responsible for 30 per cent of…
Vitamin C halts growth of aggressive forms of colorectal cancer in preclinical study
High levels of vitamin C kill certain kinds of colorectal cancers in cell cultures and…
Red meat linked to cancer – WHO report
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health…
Combination drug therapy shrinks pancreatic tumours in mice
A combination of two drugs appears to be effective at shrinking pancreatic cancers in laboratory…
Pancreatic cancer stem cells could be ‘suffocated’ by an anti-diabetic drug
Cancer cells commonly rely on glycolysis, the type of metabolism that does not use oxygen…