Medical News Today: Oncology News

Viruses that can invade host cells, initiate cancer and then flee fromb their own trail of destruction could be stopped in their tracks, say researchers writing in the September issue of the Journal of General Virology...

A study led by scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) reveals a new method of identifying drugs to treat children suffering from fatal cancers for which an effective treatment has not been found...

Cancer Council Australia has welcomed a plan announced today by the Australian Greens to protect children from junk food advertising as an important step towards reducing Australia's future cancer burden...

Lawrence Medical Products, a family-owned business conceived to help Autumn Lawrence, diagnosed with infant leukemia in 2005 at seven and a half months old, has announced the launch of the MoveAround™ IV Buggy...

Chronix Biomedical reported that it has significantly expanded and accelerated its biomarker development capabilities with the installation of Germany's first state-of-the-art high-throughput DNA mass sequencer at the University of Göttingen, Chronix's long-time collaborator...

Patients with advanced lung cancer who received integrated palliative care early on during treatment had a better quality of life and survived for two months longer compared to patients receiving standard care only, according to a study published in the August 19th issue of NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine)...

Morphotek®, Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., announced that the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California has opened enrollment in a Phase I clinical study with MORAb-028 in patients with advanced melanoma. MORAb-028 is a fully human recombinant IgM-type antibody...

Oscar-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas is to undergo eight weeks of chemo and radiotherapy to treat a throat tumor. A spokesperson for the 65 year-old Hollywood star of the film Wall Street told PEOPLE magazine on Monday that doctors expect him to make a full recovery. In a press statement, Douglas said he was "very optimistic"...

Europe's most promising oncology biotechs and other key stakeholders will gather in Oslo, Norway, September 15-17 for the 2nd European Cancer Cluster Meeting (ECCP 2010)...

The American Association for Cancer Research is currently accepting nominations for awards recognizing excellence in cancer research, to be presented at the 102nd AACR Annual Meeting 2011, held in Orlando, Fla., from April 2 to 6...

The Associated Press: "Cancer is the world's top 'economic killer' as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week. Cancer costs more in productivity and lost life than AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases that spread person-to-person, the report concludes...

New research holds promise for the thousands of people whose cancer has spread to their bones. A common treatment for such patients is radiation surgery - even though very little is known about radiosurgery's impact on bone strength, says Edmond Richer, associate professor of engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas...

Two Cancer Research UK scientists were recently awarded prestigious Royal Society Awards, while a number of Cancer Research UK scientists were elected fellows of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences...

Most cancers are easier to treat if detected early, so cancer educators emphasize the benefits of screening and prompt treatment. But for immigrants and other "medically underserved communities," simply handing out a brochure on early detection even if it's been translated into the appropriate language may not work...

For the first time, research shows that cancer has the most devastating economic impact of any cause of death in the world - costing the global economy nearly a trillion dollars a year...

"The growing burden of cancer in developing countries could be reduced without expensive drugs and equipment, scientists said on Monday, but it requires a global effort similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS," Reuters reports in an article that examines a study published in the Lancet by a group of American scientists who have created the Global Task Force on Expanded Access t...

Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researchers have uncovered a new link between chronic inflammation and cancer. Although cancers do not always cause inflammation, chronic inflammation is known to help tumor cells grow. In an article published in the June issue of Nature, VCU Massey scientists Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D., and Tomasz Kordula, Ph.D...

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have uncovered the genes that regulate MDM2, an oncogene that, in turn, regulates the tumor suppressor protein p53. But instead of an on-off switch for MDM2, the team found what looks like a dimmer switch, suggesting a more complicated signaling pathway that is sensitive to a changing environment. Reported in the Aug...

Breast cancer rates in the United States are nearly double those seen in South American countries like Brazil, and experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) said today that differences in diet, weight and physical activity are important reasons why...

An international team of researchers has found for the first time that a known cellular protein called SIK2 is important for cell division and that targeting it could improve response to chemotherapy in some patients with ovarian cancer...