cancer research

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) Investigators from the Melbourne Center of the international Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Pacific Edge Biotchnology Ltd today reported that they have developed a test to predict whether a patient will progress rapidly from Stage III melanoma to metastatic Stage IV cancer and death.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Based on a pilot study in children with sarcoma, researchers at the National Institutes of Health believe that immunotherapy could prove beneficial in treating high-risk forms of this cancer.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Researchers in Germany have discovered that methadone, an agent used to break addiction to opioid drugs, has surprising killing power against leukemia cells, including treatment resistant forms of the cancer.

(American Institute of Physics) Half of all Americans will be diagnosed at some point in their lives with cancer, the number two killer in the United States.

One of the professions at the frontlines in the battle against cancer are medical physicists -- scientists who use the power and innovation of physics to study and solve the most pressing medical problems.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Researchers have determined a novel mechanism through which organ transplantation often leads to cancer, and their findings suggest that targeted therapies may reduce or prevent that risk.

Obese women with most of their excess weight on the stomach, are more likely to get pancreatic cancer, research suggests.

(University of Texas at Austin) A biomedical engineering assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute grant to conduct nanoparticle cancer research.

(American Association for Cancer Research) A simple blood test screening for a panel of biomarkers can accurately predict whether a patient who has had prostate cancer surgery will have a recurrence or spread of the disease

(American Association for Cancer Research) New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

(University of Missouri-Columbia) New cancer research from the University of Missouri suggests that eating a certain form of tomato product could be the key to unlocking the prostate cancer-fighting potential of the tomato.

The positive effect of tomato products has been suggested in many studies, but, until now, researchers did not know exactly what caused this effect.