A large-scale clinical trial to verify the effectiveness of a vaccine against the most common form of lung cancer has been launched.

More than 1,300 patients worldwide will help test the drug Stimuvax, which in preliminary trials was shown to increase the chance of survival in many patients. …read the rest of this entry»

A large study in Britain concluded that hormone replacement therapy, HRT significantly increases the risk of women developing ovarian cancer.

Figures from the Study of One Million Women indicate that a thousand other women in the UK died from ovarian cancer between 1991 and 2005 because they were treated by HRT. …read the rest of this entry»

UK scientists discovered why a treatment for ovarian cancer only works in half the patients.

The drug paclitaxel inhibits ovarian tumors, but researchers at the University of Cambridge found that patients who have a deficit in a specific type of protein tend to be immune to its effects. …read the rest of this entry»

Scientists discovered a key part of chemistry which makes cancer cells so dangerous.

They think that now might be possible to interfere in the mechanism of the cell and halting tumor growth.

The Harvard School of Medicine identified an enzyme which enables cancer cells to consume huge amounts of glucose, which need to grow uncontrollably. …read the rest of this entry»

A California college professor who sequenced his own genome discovered after an analysis of their genes that was at high risk of dying from a heart attack and was very prone to prostate cancer.

The analysis, published in The Lancet medical journal, illustrated the challenges faced by physicians, patients and health systems in these maps as …read the rest of this entry»

* Cross members “for them …” the Gulf of Baja California Mexico By Elizabeth Rodriguez Mora, 2 May. (Bloomberg) - Four years ago professional swimmers took to the odyssey to promote sport as healthy lifestyle and thus combat cancer in women, since they had to face the toughest fight of his life that was against this disease. …read the rest of this entry»

Tomatoes are rich in anthocyanin which is thought to have anticancer properties.

British scientists have developed a variety of purple tomatoes in the hope that help prevent cancer. …read the rest of this entry»

A team of researchers at Stanford University has been using nanotechnology to kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells, through the introduction of microscopic synthetic rods called nanotubes into cancer cells. When the rods are exposed to infrared light rays from a laser, heat, killing the cell. Meanwhile, those cells lacking both rods undamaged. …read the rest of this entry»

Breast cancer can water to other parts of the body.

A group of scientists said they discovered a way to stop the spread of cancer to other parts of the body.

According to experts, an enzyme could be behind the reproduction of cancer. …read the rest of this entry»

Nanotechnology was first used to destroy cancer cells through a highly selective set of “anti-tumor genes,” according to the latest research on the subject.

The procedure selectively kills only cancer cells.

The technique can ignore healthy cells and may solve the dilemma of how to …read the rest of this entry»