Candidate drug targeting metastasis could stop cancer spreading
Researchers have identified a molecule that could be used as a drug to prevent metastasis, a process by which cancer can spread and cause death...
Researchers have identified a molecule that could be used as a drug to prevent metastasis, a process by which cancer can spread and cause death...
Cancer has plagued humans throughout history. Although it's not a uniquely human affliction, it can be found lurking in virtually every living creature going as far back as the dinosaurs...
Breast cancer brain metastases can be targeted with a new approach using stem cells as a delivery system...
A new scanning technique has the potential to replace tissue biopsies for complicated ovarian cancer patients...
A drug used to treated breast cancer has been shown to deplete stores of immature ovarian eggs in mice...
Structures grown from patient's tumour cells can help identify which patients will benefit from chemotherapy drugs, according to a new study...
Four organ recipients developed cancer after doctors did not detect breast cancer in an organ donor...
A gene that plays a major role in promoting metastasis — the spread of cancer around the body — has been identified...
Nanorobots made of DNA, that can target and kill tumours in mouse cancer models, have been developed by scientists...
by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge
The problem of fertility preservation for girls and women undergoing cancer treatments has been a subject of research for many decades. The recent study by McLaughlin and colleagues from Professor Evelyn Telfer's lab at the University of Edinburgh, UK, is
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