A woman has conceived Britain’s first baby guaranteed to be free from hereditary breast cancer. Doctors screened out from the woman’s embryos an inherited gene that would have left the baby with a greater than 50% chance of developing the cancer. The woman decided to have her embryos screened because her husband had tested positive ...

According to a group of U.S. researchers, a drug created from both a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment, and nanotechnology could be effective in fighting a broad range of cancers. The drug, called lodamin was improved in one of the final experiments overseen by recently deceased Dr. Judah Folkman, a pioneer of angiogenesis therapy – ...

From ScientificBlogging.com Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. The treatment will involve transfusing specific white blood cells, called granulocytes, from ...

It's no secret that a healthy lifestyle can slow the progression of cancer, but how this happens has been a mystery. Now new evidence suggests an answer: dieting and exercise may turn crucial genes on and off. In a pilot study involving 30 men with early-stage prostate cancer, Dean Ornish and colleagues at the University of California, San ...

A cure for cancer teems through our veins, but the trick is harnessing the immune system's tumour-destroying cells, say doctors. Now, a US team has developed a new way to turn a patient's T-cells against a deadly, metastasised skin cancer. A 55-year old man who received the immune boost lives tumour-free, more than two years after ...

A Scottsdale startup company wants to create a social-networking site that could link doctors and pharmaceutical companies to help get cutting-edge cancer treatments to patients. The vision of MedTrust Online involves developing a customized Web site and database that compiles medical literature, clinical trial information, treatment ...

A gene therapy invented at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is the first to succeed in a U.S. phase III clinical trial for cancer, as announced today at the American Society of Gene Therapy annual meeting in Boston. Introgen Therapeutics, Inc., reported results of its phase III trial of Advexin(r), a modified adenovirus ...

An experimental drug has blocked the progression of prostate cancer in an animal model with an aggressive form of the disease, new research shows. The agent, OSU-HDAC42, belongs to a new class of drugs called histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, compounds designed to reactivate genes that normally protect against cancer but are turned off ...

Certain types of carbon nanotubes could cause the same health problems as asbestos, according to the results of two recent studies. In one, published yesterday, tests in mice showed that long and straight multiwalled carbon nanotubes cause the same kind of inflammation and lesions in the type of tissues that surround the lungs that is ...

An herb used in traditional medicine by many Middle Eastern countries may help in the fight against pancreatic cancer, one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer at Jefferson in Philadelphia have found that thymoquinone, an extract of nigella sativa seed oil, blocked pancreatic cancer cell growth and killed ...