Anne Li 1/15/17
The increasing number of patients being discussed at expert cancer meetings means that specialists are under growing pressure, according to a Cancer Research…
Anne Li 1/15/17
UK scientists have revealed a number of genes that could play a role in how cancer cells spread through the body. Led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the…
Anne Li 1/15/17
The Welsh government has announced “hugely positive” changes to its screening programmes for both cervical and bowel cancer. From April 2017 a pilot programme will switch the order of…
Anne Li 1/15/17
A new study in mice suggests that a type of lung cancer could be split into two different diseases based on cells’ molecular fingerprints. The findings…
Anne Li 1/15/17
A report from the National Cancer Institute in the US and the World Health Organization has found that tobacco control measures are highly cost-effective, but…
Anne Li 1/1/17
Deaths from cancer in the United States have dropped 25 percent since hitting a peak in 1991, a…
Anne Li 1/1/17
Cancer is a genetic disease—that is, cancer is caused by certain changes to genes that control the way our cells function, especially how they grow…
Anne Li 1/1/17
As you think about taking part in a clinical trial, you will face the issue of how to cover the costs of care.…
Anne Li 1/1/17
People who consistently smoked an average of less than one cigarette per day over their lifetimes had a 64 percent higher risk of earlier…
Anne Li 1/1/17
In a study of an immune therapy for colorectal cancer that involved a single patient, a team of…