Thirty years ago, an intern had a conversation with a patient that he regrets to this day.  The patient, a young man with widely metastatic lymphoma, unresponsive to chemotherapy, now had ...

Científicos británicos descubrieron una nueva forma de tratamiento potencial para detener el cáncer de páncreas. El estudio identificó un gen que provoca la ...

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are using powerful DNA sequencing technology not only to identify mutations at the root of a patient's tumor – ...

Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London have identified a new protein that makes pancreatic cancer cells less 'sticky' and therefore less able to attach to and invade other tissue. ...

March 13, 2012 By Garth Sundem Leave a Comment Leukemia Cells THREE KEY POINTS: The protein Mer is a well known oncogene — a cause of cancer New study finds Mer not only coating ...

Large-scale sequencing analyses of solid cancers have identified extensive heterogeneity between individual tumors.1-6 Genetic intratumor heterogeneity has also been shown7-15 and can contribute ...

BACKGROUND The prognostic relevance of variations in expression of specific tumor genes in colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRCLMs) in patients treated with resection and modern chemotherapy ...

BOSTON, MA—Honing chemotherapy delivery to cancer cells is a challenge for many researchers. Getting the cancer cells to take the chemotherapy "bait" is a greater challenge. But ...

Study presented at AACR-IASLC conference of multiple novel mutations and pathway changes not found in patients with lung cancer who smoked SAN DIEGO -- Researchers at the Translational Genomics ...

Los tratamientos actuales contra el cáncer de mama han logrado prolongar la vida de los afectadas, una razón de peso para que la comunidad científica preste atención a ...

Casi la mitad de los casos de cáncer que se diagnostican cada año en Reino Unido – más de 130.000 en total – son provocados por decisiones personales relacionadas ...

Se le podría llamar la primera olimpíada para células en el mundo. Sin duda se trata de un evento sin precedentes en el que investigadores de biología celular montaron ...

Yale Cancer Center researchers have shown that a tiny genetic variation predicts chances of survival and response to treatment for patients with ovarian cancer. The findings, published in the ...

Boston—NOVEMBER 30, 2011—Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have uncovered important molecular and genetic keys to the development of soft-tissue sarcomas in skeletal ...

Científicos crearon un espray que ilumina con fluorescencia células cancerosas durante una operación y ayuda al cirujano a detectar y extraer hasta los focos más ...