Oncology & Cancer

New study seeks hereditary causes of childhood cancer

Follow-up and treatment of children with cancer is significantly improved when inherited genetic causes are also investigated, according to a new Swedish study. The results of the research involving some 50 researchers and ...

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers discover protective 'acid wall' formed by cancer cells

Cancer cells release a significantly more concentrated level of acid than previously known, forming an "acid wall" that could deter immune cells from attacking tumors, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists show in a new ...

Oncology & Cancer

Using cryo-shocked tumor cells to fight lung cancer

A team of medical researchers at Zhejiang University, in China, has developed a way to use cryo-shocked tumor cells to fight lung cancer. In their study, published in the journal Science Advances, the group used fast liquid ...

Medications

Improving the world's most potent cancer drug

Fourteen mice scurried around in laboratory cages, eating, sniffing, and running peacefully. You would never guess that, several weeks earlier, half of them had received five times the lethal dose of a leading chemotherapy ...

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