The percentage of people affected with lymphoma, a type of blood cancer that affects the lymphatic system, increases each year in Spain, as reported in yesterday’s news agency Europe Press. “Between 3% and 4%”, stressed in a press conference spokesman for the Spanish …read the rest of this entry»

Researchers at the University of Granada (UGR) have discovered a suicide gene, called E gene, which induces death of tumor cells derived from breast, lung and colon and prevents its growth, thereby enhancing further the efficacy of drugs against this disease.
The importance of this new gene is that its use for cancer can reduce …read the rest of this entry»

Science returns to take another step in the fight against cancer. The latter is the progress which has been reached Andalusian specialists: a group of researchers at the University of Seville (U.S.) have developed a study with other Spanish and international experts who analyzed the role of the protein …read the rest of this entry»

Mobile phone use could be related to several types of cancer, according to an international study supervised by the World Health Organization (WHO) whose preliminary results were published in The Daily Telegraph. …read the rest of this entry»

A new study says that men who drink beer or alcohol often, they could face an increased risk of developing various cancers.

In recent years there has been a debate between the benefits or adverse effects have beer on health. On one side is the group that is considered one of the healthiest beverages exist for nutrients that compose it and the other …read the rest of this entry»

As a drug designed to attack the Achilles heel of cells that cause tumors, is able to shrink or stabilize these tumors in patients with certain hereditary cancers resistant to treatments, and it does so with few side effects. The initial test results were published in The New England Journal of Medicine. …read the rest of this entry»

About 2,500 cancer experts attending tomorrow in Geneva, a World Congress which will present the latest data and recommendations on a disease that annually kills about eight million people in the world.

With 11 million new cancer cases each year, experts believe that this trend continue, by 2030 there will already be 16 million cases a year, and 11.5 million deaths annually. …read the rest of this entry»

Childhood cancer is rare, but in the U.S. is more common among whites than blacks and Hispanics, and more frequent in the Northeast, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics.  …read the rest of this entry»

This procedure is known as photodynamic therapy, not for all patients, but for those who are not good candidates for surgery

Argentina became the first Latin American country to start using a therapy that can “burn” certain types of tumors or alleviate the harm associated with other advanced cancers without operating the patient, local media reported. …read the rest of this entry»

Many scientists doubt the existence of cancer stem cells, but a team of biologists has discovered new clues that these cells may have therapeutic use, reports an article published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

According to that article, researchers from the universities of Michigan (UM), Harvard and Pennsylvania and the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research have revealed the inner workings of a system for cell-cell signaling. …read the rest of this entry»