Kennedy’s tumor was aggressive and deadly

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has died at age 77 after battling a brain tumor. He was diagnosed with a malignant glioma after suffering a seizure last May.

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Study: 7 key genes predict brain cancer survival

Scientists have found seven key genes in the type of brain tumor affecting Sen. Edward Kennedy that together can predict how aggressive a patient's cancer will be.

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Cancer screening: Doing more harm than good?

Suzanne Bull always half expected that she'd get cancer. After all, she lived in Marin County, California, where breast cancer rates are among the highest in the country. Still, she was determined to do whatever she could to protect herself. She ate right and exercised, and every year, she went into San Francisco to get a mammogram.

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Apple's Steve Jobs' condition a 'puzzle'

Reports that a hormone imbalance may be responsible for Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’ recent weight loss do little to quell concerns about the pancreatic cancer survivor’s health, endocrinologists said.

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Study: Small breast tumors may need more treatment

Some women with small breast tumors may have a greater risk of the cancer recurring after treatment than has been believed, and might benefit from taking the drug Herceptin, a new study suggests.

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Flat Growths May Be Worse Than Polyps

Flat growths on the colon wall are more common in Americans than previously thought and more likely to be cancerous than the more familiar knobby masses known as polyps, a new study finds.

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Brain Scan Abnormalities Not Uncommon

One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don't know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising new Dutch study that finds brain abnormalities are not all that uncommon.

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Dr. Howard Riina threaded a slender tube through a maze of arteries in Dennis Sugrue's brain, watching X-ray images on a monitor to track his progress.

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The findings, presented in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that the mole rat's cells express a gene called p16 that makes the cells "claustrophobic," stopping the cells' proliferation when too many of them crowd together, cutting off runaway growth befor …

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"Carole Budding, 47, was given just weeks to live because doctors said nothing more could be done to treat her." The doctors were wrong.

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I have always been instinctively aware of this problem, but this is the first time I have seen any evidence to corroborate my hunch. Lots of unexplained illnesses result from this diesel exhaust, like migraine headaches, for example.

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A large new study including 170,000 South Floridians found that a small but significant number of patients received dangerously high doses of radiation from medical imaging tests, putting them at higher risk for cancer -- sometimes needlessly.

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Will your insurance company pay for the treatment your doctors recommend? They may not. That's what a single mother from Chico said she found out.

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As CNN reported, McConnell recently made a speech to the Senate referring to the "bureaucrats who run Canada's health care system" and using the Kingston General Hospital as an example of the horror of Canada's health care.

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"The recent discovery that the hippocampus is able to generate new neurons throughout a human's lifespan has changed the way we think about the mechanisms of psychiatric disorders and drug addiction" [...] It appears that cannabinoids are able to modulate pain, nausea, vomi …

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Two patients with inoperable prostate cancer have made dramatic recoveries after receiving one dose of an experimental drug that is creating excitement among cancer specialists.

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For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis.

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You won't find "reduced risk of cancer" on most lists of the effects of Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21), but scientists have long known that people with the condition rarely get most types of cancer.

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People with Down syndrome hold the key to a new generation of cancer drugs, researchers say. More Articles

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Genetic "brakes" which could slow down or stop diseases like MS and cancer have been found by scientists.

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The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February 2000, when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.

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If this is true - I don't believe everything I read - witholding information is the wrong thinking.

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In a research milestone, the federal government will allow the world's first test in people of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. More Articles

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Bioengineers at Harvard University have shown that small plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin can reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors.

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A common additive used in bacon and ham could fuel the growth of cancers, research suggests. High doses of inorganic phosphate salts – which are used to enhance the texture and flavour of processed meats – increased the size of tumours in mice.

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Just because diet soda is low in calories doesn't mean it can't lead to weight gain.

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Nearly five decades ago, Americans learned that one of their most treasured habits—smoking—was lethal. This year, we could get more scary news, when scientists announce the results from Interphone, the largest-ever study to investigate whether cellphones cause cancer.

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Dr. Rachel Clark could see the patient through the glass walls of the Massachusetts General Hospital intensive-care unit. A young woman lay on the bed, unconscious. The girl's mother sat next to her, stroking her head.

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BALTIMORE, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- An oral rinse may be used to detect human papillomavirus-positive, or HPV, head and neck cancers, U.S. researchers said.

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Cancer becoming an incurable disease that may no longer be looked upon as a death sentence. New technology, greater understanding of the disease, new treatment options offer greater hope for surviving and living with cancer.

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A special report on the failure of conventional treatment, the latest dietary prevention programmes and the most successful alternative treatments for bowel cancer, the second greatest cancer killer of all. This report is from 1999 but worth a read nonetheless.

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Could a substance from the jasmine flower hold the key to an effective new therapy to treat cancer?

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