cancer research

(American Association for Cancer Research) Findings suggest the effects of food may be more complex. Adverse effect observed in younger women.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Mutations in the ATM gene may increase the hereditary risk for pancreatic cancer, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), the Melanoma Research Alliance and SU2C's scientific partner, the American Association for Cancer Research, today announced a new dream team dedicated to melanoma research.

Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D., and Patricia M. LoRusso, D.O., will lead the Dream Team project entitled "Personalized Medicine for Patients with BRAF Wild-Type Cancer."

(American Association for Cancer Research) Concomitant tumor resistance to metastasis seen in laboratory models.

Cancer-associated forms of the amino acid tyrosine act as anti-metastasis factors. Process might be manipulated chemically for therapeutic benefit.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Protein S100A10 is essential for metastatic growth. Macrophages rely upon S100A10 to power movement of tumor cells to new sites.

A "fatty apron" in the abdomen help fuel the spread of ovarian cancer, research suggests.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Over the next decade, the population of cancer survivors over 65 years of age will increase by approximately 42 percent.

A New York professor who won a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking cancer research Monday won't get to collect his reward - he died from the dreaded disease three days ago.

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) A study made by IDIBELL researchers shows that glucose metabolism inhibition with 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) induces cell death in a type of childhood sarcoma: alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

The results have been published in the journal Cancer Research.

A chemical in the blood could one day help doctors spot early signs of ovarian cancer, research suggests.