Angelina Jolie made news this week when she wrote a New York Times op-ed piece announcing that she'd had an elective double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery to dramatically reduce her risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Jolie lost her mother to...

ByCory Renauer:Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) is heading straight for a patent cliff. Zyprexa lost patent protection in most major markets in 2011. The antipsychotic's worldwide sales for Q1 2013 fell 49% year on year to $284.8 million from $562.7 in...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — An 11-year study of the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in the state ended Thursday with university researchers saying they found no statistically significant elevations in the rate...

Read our news digest Here’s a round-up of this week’s cancer news: A new research programme announced this week will lay the foundations for routine testing for inherited cancer genes in patients with the disease. Read more in our news...

(MedPage Today) -- Four groups said they could not replicate last year's electrifying finding that a cancer drug cleared beta amyloid plaques from the brains of mice. Also this week: nanoparticles as a next-gen flu vaccine.

Radiosurgery systems maker, Accuray Incorporated (ARAY) published encouraging data about its CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, which provides stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to treat prostrate cancer. Clinical findings from the...

Fawk cancer!! Sisters Kicked Out Mall For Anti-Cancer Apparel Sisters Takia and Tasha Clark were kicked out from a King of Prussia, Pa., mall after reportedly refusing to remove their hats, which read “F**K CANCER,” with the letter ‘C’...

FRIDAY, May 24 -- Low-income, minority parents have more realistic views about their teens' sexual activity and are more open to vaccinating their daughters against the cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), a small new study...

As all the world knows now, Hollywood star Angelina Jolie chose to have a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of hereditary breast cancer from around 90 percent to five percent. Jolie made her decision based on the results of a specific...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA)�have made an advance in breast cancer research which shows how some enzymes released by cancerous cells could have a protective function. New research published today in the Journal of Biological...

Read our news digest Here’s a round-up of this week’s cancer news: A new research programme announced this week will lay the foundations for routine testing for inherited cancer genes in patients with the disease. Read more in our news...

When I was a radiation oncology resident in Boston in the early 80’s, a few brilliant minds in physics and medicine came up with the notion that it would be a good idea to treat certain cancers with a beam of protons.  Protons are the positively...

A new way of tackling cancer and predicting tumor virulence are has been reported by a team of researchers. The scientists have shown that, in all cancers, an aberrant activation of numerous genes specific to other tissues occurs. For example, in...

Researchers have found that regulatory T cells that infiltrate tumors express proteins that can be targeted with therapeutic antibodies.

Researchers have developed a multicolor fluorescence labeling method that can be used to visualize miRNAs in tissue sections, such as those recovered from biopsies.

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals (PPHM) recently received encouraging news when the company announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed on the design for the phase III registration trial for its oncology candidate,...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - An 11-year study of the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in the state ended Thursday with university researchers saying they found no statistically significant elevations in the rate of...

Two mutations central to the development of infantile myofibromatosis (IM)--a disorder characterized by multiple tumors involving the skin, bone, and soft tissue--may provide new therapeutic targets, according to researchers from the Icahn School of...

  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. In 2007 alone, over 58,000 people were diagnosed with melanomas of the skin, with 8,000 people dying from the...

The unsustainable cost of cancer drugs puts a possible cure out of the financial reach of many patients. Dr. Bruce Cheson calls for a concerted effort to cap escalating costs. Medscape Oncology