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…
Anne Li 1/1/17
Researchers have created a long-sought-after mouse model for the most common form of infant leukemia, an aggressive form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) for…
Anne Li 1/1/17
In an early-phase clinical trial of a new oral drug, selumetinib, children with the common genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and…
Anne Li 1/1/17
A drug most commonly used to treat depression may also reduce joint pain in some…
Anne Li 1/1/17
Scientists in London have discovered a possible way that some cancer cells invade their surroundings and escape a tumour. If confirmed…