All Entries in the "Cancer News" Category
Folic Acid and Ovarian Cancer Screening – How Do They Affect Cancer Risk?
Ovarian cancer is often known as a silent killer since it can be difficult to detect it in the early stages (less than 20% of ovarian cancers are detected in the early stage before it has spread outside the ovary). And recent news about ovarian cancer is not heartening in that according to researchers at [...]
Drug to Increase Healthy Years for Cancer Sufferers
A new discovery holds out hope that patients with a certain kind of cancer may be able to lead longer, healthier lives – those who have follicular lymphoma may benefit from the use of the drug rituximab, which doctors say will increase the number of years they will remain healthy. If the drug is taken [...]
Magnetic Pulses Can ‘Burn’ Cancer Cells
A new cancer curing technique is showing promising results – a therapy that uses magnetic pulses to heat tumor cells until they die. Scientists have found that it could be possible to heat up cancer cells using tiny particles of iron oxide that vibrate when in a magnetic field. Test conducted on mice showed that [...]
Michael Douglas Has 80% Chance of Recovery from Throat Cancer
Doctors have given throat cancer sufferer, Michael Douglas an 80% chance of recovery. His discovery of having throat cancer was followed by rigorous chemotherapy and radiation treatments, which did bring to mind, the prospect of dying says the actor. His condition and its treatment has put a “little perspective on mortality, obviously,” says the actor. [...]
A Tumor to Kill Cancer?
A novel approach to cancer treatment has been developed recently – creating a personalized vaccine to help prevent cancer. This approach is said to help by enabling patients with colorectal cancer to develop an immune response to their own cancers. The procedure was tested at Dartmouth, wherein a dendritic cell (DC) vaccine was used after [...]
Anal Cancer Vaccine On Anvil
An application made to the FDA advisory committee by Merck & Co.’s to expand the use of its vaccine Gardasil for the prevention of anal cancer in young men and women has been approved. This drug is already approved as being an effective vaccine against genital warts and cervical cancer. A vaccine for anal cancer [...]
New Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer
Impotence and incontinence are frequently the unfortunate consequences of prostate cancer treatment that typically involves radiotherapy and surgery. This is because there are chances that the healthy tissue adjoining the tumor could also become damaged in the process of attacking the tumor and many patients fear the treatment because of this. Now however a new [...]
Jellyfish Cells To Help Identify Cancer!
Scientists from the Yorkshire Cancer Research Laboratory at York University have found a unique use for the luminous cells of a jellyfish. The green fluorescent protein found in jellyfish makes them glow in the dark could help detect cancers deep within the body. This protein, found the researchers, can be targeted at cancer cells so [...]
