Oncology & Cancer

Biomarker test highly accurate in detecting early kidney cancer

A novel liquid biopsy method can detect kidney cancers with high accuracy, including small, localized tumors which are often curable but for which no early detection method exists, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Oncology & Cancer

New blood test improves prostate cancer screening

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnoses and thereby improve prostate cancer screening. Now, the same research group has published a ...

Oncology & Cancer

Lifestyle modifications that that may reduce risk of cancer

Cancer can be seen as striking haphazardly, but research over the past 40 years shows that lifestyle factors play a huge role in cancer incidence and mortality. Dr. Graham Colditz, an internationally recognized disease-prevention ...

Oncology & Cancer

FDA warns ovarian cancer tests not reliable

(HealthDay)—Screening tests for ovarian cancer are not reliable and should not be used, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers ID promising pancreatic cancer screening marker

Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a protein that shows distinct changes in structure between pancreatic cancer, non-cancerous diseases and normal blood serum. The protein ...

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