Industry News
Mayo Clinic: New breast cancer risk prediction model more accurate than current model
Jan 28, 2015
A new breast cancer risk prediction model combining histologic features of biopsied breast tissue from women with benign breast disease and individual patient demographic information more accurately... Read More
CNIO scientists discover a new blood platelet formation mechanism
Jan 28, 2015
Thrombocytopenia is a disease characterised by a lower platelet level than normal. Platelets are tiny cells that participate in the coagulation of blood. Read More
High-risk prostate cancers 'better detected' using targeted biopsy
Jan 28, 2015
Researchers find a targeted biopsy method that combines ultrasound and MRI is more effective for identifying high-risk prostate cancers than the standard biopsy technique. Read More
Protein-based therapy shows promise against resistant leukemia
Jan 28, 2015
Resistance of leukemia cells to contemporary chemotherapy is one of the most formidable obstacles to treating acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer. Read More
Cooperation between cancer cells makes therapies ineffective, suggests new treatment
Jan 28, 2015
Cooperation between cancer cells makes current therapies ineffective but also suggests new treatmentCancer cells in vitro form networks like the one pictured here, in which cells not only compete... Read More
New strategy to combat 'undruggable' cancer molecule
Jan 28, 2015
Three of the four most fatal cancers are caused by a protein known as Ras; either because it mutates or simply because it ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Read More
Lung cancer to overtake breast cancer as most fatal among European women
Jan 28, 2015
Predictions for 2015 estimate that, for the first time, the death rates for lung cancer among women in Europe will exceed those for breast cancer. Read More
Care eliminates racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates, Stanford study finds
Jan 28, 2015
For the past two decades, the National Cancer Institute has documented a persistent racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates in the United States. Read More
Care eliminates racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates, Stanford study finds
Jan 28, 2015
For the past two decades, the National Cancer Institute has documented a persistent racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates in the United States. Read More
Smoking may increase risks for patients being treated for prostate cancer
Jan 27, 2015
Among patients with prostate cancer, those who smoke have increased risks of experiencing side effects from treatment and of developing future cancer recurrences, or even dying from prostate cancer. Read More
Previous Page Next Page