Cancer-resistant mouse discovered November 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 121 vote(s)
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A mouse resistant to cancer, even highly-aggressive types, has been created by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The breakthrough stems from a discovery by UK College of Medicine professor of radiation medicine Vivek ... | |
Physicians Stop Liver Cancer with Millions of Glass Beads October 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 79 vote(s)
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University of Cincinnati (UC) physicians are using a new technique that involves injecting patients with millions of tiny radioactive glass beads to control advanced, inoperable liver cancer. | |
Research says boiling broccoli ruins its anti-cancer properties May 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that the standard British cooking habit of boiling vegetables severely damages the anticancer properties of many Brassica vegetables such as broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower ... | |
Cancer-fighting agent found in beer December 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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A key ingredient of beer may contain a cancer-fighting substance, a German study indicated. | |
FDA OKs vitamin C trial for cancer January 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Federal approval of a clinical trial on intravenous vitamin C as a cancer treatment lends credence to alternative cancer care, U.S. researchers said. | |
Cancer-fighting virus shows promise in early clinical trial July 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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A virus that has been specifically designed by scientists to be safe to normal tissue but deadly to cancer is showing early promise in a preliminary study, researchers said at the ESMO Conference Lugano (ECLU), Switzerland. | |
Scientists treat cancer as an infectious disease -- with promising results October 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown for the first time that cancers can be successfully treated by targeting the viruses that cause them. The findings, published in the ... | |
 An alternative theory on cancer June 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 81 vote(s)
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Thirty-six years into the war on cancer, scientists have not only failed to come up with a cure, but most of the newer drugs suffer from the same problems as those available in the pre-war days: serious toxicity, ... | |
How vitamin C stops the big 'C' September 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and ... | |
Report links power lines to cancer August 24, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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An Australian study says living next to high-voltage power lines increases the risk of cancer. | |
Mounting evidence shows red wine antioxidant kills cancer March 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell's core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling ... | |
New cancer drug hope October 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Scientists helping to develop the next generation of cancer-beating drugs say they have had a major breakthrough with their latest results. | |
OU researchers developing new tool to detect cancer August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Early cancer detection can significantly improve survival rates. Current diagnostic tests often fail to detect cancer in the earliest stages and at the same time expose a patient to the harmful effects of radiation. Led by ... | |
Reversing cancer cells to normal cells April 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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A Northwestern University scientist describes new research that used an innovative experimental approach to provide unique insights into how scientists can change human metastatic melanoma cells back to normal-like skin cells ... | |
Small molecule offers big hope against cancer January 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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DCA is an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule. And researchers at the University of Alberta believe it may soon be used as an effective treatment for many forms of cancer. | |
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