Cancer News

Breast cancer cases in women under-50 increase

A report indicates that the number of women in the U.K. under the age of 50 diagnosed with breast cancer each year has reached the 10,000 cases for the first time.

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Heavy marijuana use may lower bladder cancer risk, study says

Findings from an 11-year study have linked frequent marijuana use with a lower risk of bladder cancer, compared to smoking cigarettes or both substances.

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The father of chemotherapy has died

Scientist Emil Frei III, who the 1950s combined multiple chemotherapy drugs to treat childhood leukemia, has died at the age of 89.

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Cancer drug prices 'could put patients at risk'

A group of medics have warned that the inflated prices charged by pharmaceutical firms for drugs to treat cancer are threatening patients' lives.

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Diabetes drug could help to combat lung cancer

A medicine commonly prescribed for the treatment of diabetes appears to show potential benefits in the treatment of lung cancer.

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Cancer drug Avastin linked to 52 cases of flesh-eating disease

Patients seeking cancer treatment are being cautioned of an unusual side-effect associated with the cancer drug known as Avastin.

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Latin America under cancer threat

Experts, who have written in Lancet Oncology, have said that cancer is threatening to overwhelm countries throughout Latin America.

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Radioactive bacteria used to target metastatic pancreatic cancer

New York - Researchers have developed a therapy for pancreatic cancer that uses Listeria bacteria to selectively infect tumor cells and deliver radioisotopes into them.

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Salt and ulcers increase cancer risk

Studies have shown that a diet high in salt can be associated with an increased risk of gastric cancer. New research suggests that when a high-salt diet is associated with an infection by the ulcer-causing bacterium, then the risk rises even further.

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Bacteria used to make a molecular ‘super glue’

Scientists have created a molecular super-glue using bacterial proteins. The glue was apparently so strong that it broke the instrument used to measure the strength of the glue.

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