http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new treatment for colon cancer that combines a chemotherapy agent approved to treat breast cancer and a cancer-fighting antibody is ready for clinical trials, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-breast-cancer-drug-colon-cells.html Cancer Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:00:01 EST news226756743 Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered a key molecule needed to kill the blood vessels that supply tumours. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-strategy-tumor-feeding-blood-vessels.html Medical research Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:02:20 EST news226573325 (PhysOrg.com) -- Localized hyperthermia has been used occasionally with cancer drugs for some time, but until now, the reason it helps has been a mystery. In a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have discovered that the addition of heat inhibits homologous recombination so the cancer cells are unable to repair DNA damage caused by the cancer treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-cancer-drugs.html Cancer Tue, 10 May 2011 15:00:01 EST news224255592