A popular prostate cancer treatment called androgen deprivation therapy may encourage prostate cancer cells to produce a protein that makes them more likely to spread throughout the body, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests.
Celebrating 16 years of fundraising success, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure raised $26.5 million. The largest, single-day, volunteer-led, national event to support breast cancer, this year’s Run attracted more than 170,000 Canadians in 53 communities across the country.
MIT scientists have proved that microRNAs, tiny molecules that fine-tune protein production and play a powerful role in biological processes, can prompt otherwise sedentary cancer cells to move and invade other tissues.
Ontario Liberals will take another step forward in its battle against cancer by covering prostate specific antigen (PSA) tests for men over the age of 50, said Health Minister George Smitherman from the Columbus Centre Fitness Club.
About a third of American adults take some type of multivitamin on a regular basis. In nearly every case, the goal is better health, even though there is no firm evidence to support this hope.
Cancer Research UK’s infamous ‘Turn the Tables’ event returns for its eighth year on Monday 15th October with another explosive line-up. This year’s event sees two of the UK’s favourite political journalists put under the spotlight as they swap roles for the day with two heavyweights from Westminster.
Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (“Oncolytics”) (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced that an oral presentation covering interim results from a U.K. Phase Ia/Ib combination REOLYSIN® and radiation clinical trial for patients with advanced or metastatic cancers is scheduled to be presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) conference on October 2, 2007 in Birmingham, U.K.
Determining the genetic profile of a particular lung tumor can help clinicians make the crucial decision about which chemotherapy treatment to try first.
One of the largest individual studies of the effects of alcohol on the risk of breast cancer shows that it makes no difference whether a woman drinks wine, beer or spirits (liquor). It is the alcohol itself (ethyl alcohol) and the quantity consumed that increases breast cancer risk. In fact, the increased breast cancer risk from drinking three or more alcoholic drinks a day is similar to the increased breast cancer risk from smoking a packet of cigarettes or more a day, according to Kaiser Permanente researchers Yan Li, MD, PhD and Arthur Klatsky, MD.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer is calling on GPs across the country to work with them to help clear up widespread confusion amongst patients about the signs and symptoms of breast cancer, the UK’s most common cancer affecting 44,000 women and 300 men each year.