Image by PDPics from Pixabay For most of the last century, doctors have searched with limited success for a cure for cancer. As a group, cancers are among the deadliest diseases to affect humans and feature poor outcomes and high ...
The Incredible Machine That Delivers Pin-Point Accurate Cancer Treatments
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is life-changing and can feel like your entire world is crashing down around you. While a cancer diagnosis is more common, affecting as many as 1 in every 2 people across the world, the treatments available ...
Cancer Isn’t Evolving, But Our Research Methods Are
With the rates of cancer on the rise, the disease is still one of the greatest foes of doctors and patients across the world. However, new breakthroughs in treatment and the quest for a cure are ever being worked on. ...
MYTH BUSTER: RADIO WAVES & CANCER & CELL
Ever since cell phones were invented people have spread rumors and gathered research on the topic, specifically around cell phones and brain cancer. Since cell phones emit a certain amount of radiation, and since they’re on our ears a lot, ...
How cancer treatment is changing for the better
Finding a cure for cancer – the very phrase sends a shiver down the spine, as there is not one of us who has not lost a loved one or been personally affected by cancer. Seeking a cure has ...
Chemicals Present in Breath Could Reveal Lung Malignancy
Bad breath just used to simply mean poor hygiene or a case of the mornings, but as science has shown there could be more to the chemicals in our breath than what we are accustomed to when we wake up ...
New Nano-Structure Serves Dual Purpose: Diagnose and Treat Cancer
In the movie, “Inner Space” (1987) actor Dennis Quaid was shrunk to microscopic size and entered the body of actor Martin Short with comical consequences. True to form what began was an exciting science fiction journey within the human body ...
A New Drug for Protecting Fertility During Chemotherapy
The reaserch team at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer (Credit:Sheba Medical Center) AS101 diagram Israeli researchers developed a treatment that can be administered to women undergoing chemotherapy which can successfully prevent damage to fertility. Researchers from the Sheba Medical ...
New Diagnostic Chip Profile Cancer in Minutes vs. Hours
The EPFL microfluidic chip Swiss researchers developed a new silicon chip that can help identify breast cancer patients with high risk of metastasis with exceptionally high level of precision compared to existing techniques. The added bonus – results took several ...
Breakthrough: Curing Cancer With No Side Effects
M. Frederick Hawthorn receive the National Medal of Science from President Obama (Credit: Ryan K Morris/National Science & Technology Medals Foundation) Researchers from the University of Missouri developed a new form of radiation therapy that successfully put cancer into remission ...