Cancer news
Cancer-resistant mouse discovered
Nov 27, 2007 |
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A mouse resistant to cancer, even highly-aggressive types, has been created by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The breakthrough stems from a discovery by UK College of Medicine professor of radiation medicine Vivek ...
Traditional herbal medicine kills pancreatic cancer cells, researchers report
May 19, 2008 |
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An herb used in traditional medicine by many Middle Eastern countries may help in the fight against pancreatic cancer, one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer at Jefferson in Philadelphia ...
An alternative theory on cancer
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Thirty-six years into the war on cancer, scientists have not only failed to come up with a cure, but most of the newer drugs suffer from the same problems as those available in the pre-war days: serious toxicity, ...
Physicians Stop Liver Cancer with Millions of Glass Beads
Oct 12, 2006 |
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University of Cincinnati (UC) physicians are using a new technique that involves injecting patients with millions of tiny radioactive glass beads to control advanced, inoperable liver cancer.
How vitamin C stops the big 'C'
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and ...
Mounting evidence shows red wine antioxidant kills cancer
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell's core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling ...
Exciting discovery could 'stop cancer from killing people'
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Metastasis is the ability of cancer cells to spread from a primary site, to form tumours at distant sites. It is a complex process in which cell motility and invasion play a fundamental role. Essential to our understanding ...
A new way to fight cancer: the silver shield
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Fasting for two days protects healthy cells against chemotherapy, according to a study appearing online the week of Mar. 31 in PNAS Early Edition. Mice given a high dose of chemotherapy after fasting continued to thrive. The sa ...
Reversing cancer cells to normal cells
Apr 29, 2007 |
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A Northwestern University scientist describes new research that used an innovative experimental approach to provide unique insights into how scientists can change human metastatic melanoma cells back to normal-like skin cells ...
Cancer-fighting agent found in beer
Dec 31, 2007 |
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A key ingredient of beer may contain a cancer-fighting substance, a German study indicated.
Scientists develop new cancer-killing compound from salad plant
Oct 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently ...
Cancer-fighting virus shows promise in early clinical trial
Jul 08, 2007 |
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A virus that has been specifically designed by scientists to be safe to normal tissue but deadly to cancer is showing early promise in a preliminary study, researchers said at the ESMO Conference Lugano (ECLU), Switzerland.
Research says boiling broccoli ruins its anti-cancer properties
May 15, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that the standard British cooking habit of boiling vegetables severely damages the anticancer properties of many Brassica vegetables such as broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower ...
Device could filter cancer cells from blood
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new tactic in the fight against cancer, Cornell researcher Michael King has developed what he calls a lethal "lint brush" for the blood -- a tiny, implantable device that captures and ...
Immune system can drive cancers into dormant state
Nov 18, 2007 |
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A multinational team of researchers has shown for the first time that the immune system can stop the growth of a cancerous tumor without actually killing it.
