Ultrasound boosts cancer detection
14/5/2008 |
Using ultrasound in addition to mammography helped doctors spot significantly more breast cancers in high-risk women, compared with mammograms alone.
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Teen exercise curbs breast cancer
14/5/2008 |
New research shows exercise during the teen years - starting as young as age 12 - can help protect girls from breast cancer when they are grown.
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Playgroups cut leukaemia
29/4/2008 |
Children who attend day care or playgroups have a 30 percent lower risk of developing leukaemia, US researchers said.
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Chemo, memory problems linked
22/4/2008 |
Treatment with a single, commonly used chemotherapy drug causes lingering memory problems and other cognitive difficulties - an unpleasant side effect called "chemo brain".
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Protein suppresses tumour growth
22/4/2008 |
Researchers have discovered a protein which can reduce the malignancy of breast cancer tumours and also predict whether the cancer will metastasise, according to a new study.
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Record 7kg facial tumour
22/4/2008 |
US doctors are due to remove from a Vietnamese girl a 15-pound (seven-kilo) tumour thought to be one of the largest of its kind on record.
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Coffee fights cancer in mice
17/4/2008 |
Caffeine acts as a sort of "sun screen" when given to mice before their skin is exposed to and damaged by ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation.
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Drug may shrink cancer tumours
16/4/2008 |
An experimental drug designed to block a specific cell-signalling pathway has been shown in a small trial to shrink tumours in patients with advanced skin cancer.
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Trans-fats up breast cancer risk
14/4/2008 |
Trans-fats, which are being phased out of food because they clog arteries, may raise the risk of getting breast cancer, European researchers reported.
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"Shells" to preserve cells
11/4/2008 |
Scientists have developed "shells" that can wrap around living cells and preserve them, and hope to use them in cell transplants to repair damaged human tissues and battle cancer.
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