Cancer Research
New research suggested that Western-style diet puts a person at higher risk of acquiring cancer.
After the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, we now have #FeelingNuts.
According to statistics, in 2012, 12,600 cases were diagnosed in children with cancer. The successful treatments against cancer were acute lymphoblastic leukemia with 90 percent of successful cases, while the nauroblastoma has a 70 to 80 percent success rate.
Doctors might soon have another new, powerful weapon to help in the fight against cancer, in the form of a surgical knife that can instantly tell whether surgeons are cutting cancerous or healthy tissue.
Sometimes a scientific or medical breakthrough doesn't touch the public until you put a face and a name on it: This short film called "Fire with Fire," gives you Emma, a 6-year-old leukemia patient whose cancer was cured - read again: Cured. - by an experimental therapy which used a modified HIV virus to reprogram her immune system to eradicate cancerous cells.
The aesthetically-disagreeable naked mole rat can live for more than 30 years and has never been observed with cancer. In fact, these creatures seem impervious to the ailment - why is that so?
Latin America faces a “worrying” increase in cancer, and unless something is done to improve health care in the developing region and help prevent the disease, the area is facing the possibility of an epidemic, according to a new study commissioned by The Lancet.
In memory of her late grandmother, pop superstar Rihanna is donating nearly $2 million to a hospital in her native homeland of Barbados.
A new study says mammograms may actually lead to overdiagnosis of tumors that won’t lead to cancer.
The new drug, available mid-September, was approved by the FDA on Friday for patients will late-stage prostate cancer.
