Dana-Farber/ Harvard Cancer Center
Among the research institutions the National Cancer Institute funds across the United States, it currently designates 68 as Cancer Centers. Largely based in research universities, these facilities are...
View ArticleUCCCC Researchers Pinpoint Tumor Suppressor Gene Involved in Acute Myeloid...
Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) have identified a gene that contributes to the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This pivotal finding...
View ArticleNIH Study Links Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment to Possible Risk of Stomach Cancer
Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who received certain radiation and chemotherapy regimens were at increased risk of subsequently developing stomach cancer, according to a study by scientists at the National...
View ArticleWear Your Vegetables
With skin cancer emerging as one of the world's most prevalent forms of cancer, researchers are using every tool at their disposal to fight this disease. The tool of choice for Sally Dickinson, PhD?...
View ArticleNCI Clinician-Scientists at the Forefront of New Prostate Cancer Diagnostics...
Introduction of the UroNav was the result of nearly a decade's research and development, principally conducted at NCI. Resembling a stylized computer workstation on wheels, the system electronically...
View ArticleUC Davis Patient Embraces Personalized Approach to Lung Cancer Diagnosis
As a woman in her mid-forties who didn't smoke, Elizabeth Lacasia never expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer. But in 2006, after she developed a persistent and serious cough, a chest X-ray and CT...
View ArticleUAB Cancer Center Celebrates Grand Opening of Modernized Facility
On Friday, Aug. 23, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center celebrated the public grand opening of the renovated Lurleen B. Wallace Tumor Institute (WTI).
View ArticleAvon Foundation for Women, NIH, and the Center for Advancing Innovation...
A world-wide competition to bring emerging breast cancer technologies to market is being launched by the Avon Foundation for Women, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the...
View ArticleFewer Doses of HPV Vaccine Result in Immune Response Similar to Three-Dose...
NCI scientists report that two doses of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, trademarked as Cervarix, resulted in similar serum antibody levels against two of the most carcinogenic types of HPV (16...
View ArticleDuke Cancer Institute
Among the research institutions the National Cancer Institute funds across the United States, it currently designates 68 as Cancer Centers. Largely based in research universities, these facilities are...
View ArticleWorldwide Trends Show Oropharyngeal Cancer Rates Increasing
NCI scientists report that the incidence of oropharyngeal cancer significantly increased during the period 1983-2002 among people in countries that are economically developed.
View ArticleNIH Mouse Study Finds Gut Microorganisms May Determine Cancer Treatment Outcome
An intact population of microorganisms that derive food and benefit from other organisms living in the intestine is required for optimal response to cancer therapy, according to a mouse study by...
View ArticleNIH-Funded Study Shows Increased Survival in Men with Metastatic Prostate...
Men with hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer who received the chemotherapy drug docetaxel given at the start of standard hormone therapy lived longer than patients who received hormone therapy...
View ArticleNew Studies Demonstrate That Modified T Cells Are Effective in Treating...
At the 2013 American Society of Hematology meeting in Dec. 2013, James Kochenderfer, M.D., investigator in the Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, NCI, presented findings from two...
View ArticleLung Cancer Death Rates Continue to Fall, Helping Drive Ongoing Decrease in...
The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, covering the period 1975-2010, showed death rates for lung cancer, which accounts for more than one in four cancer deaths, dropping at a faster...
View ArticleNIH Scientists Map Genetic Changes That Drive Tumors in a Common Pediatric...
Scientists have mapped the genetic changes that drive tumors in rhabdomyosarcoma, a pediatric soft-tissue cancer, and found that the disease is characterized by two distinct genotypes.
View ArticleTCGA Bladder Cancer Study Reveals Potential Drug Targets, Similarities to...
Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have identified new potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer, including important genes and pathways that are...
View ArticleNCI Launches Trial to Assess the Utility of Genetic Sequencing to Improve...
A pilot trial to assess whether assigning treatment based on specific gene mutations can provide benefit to patients with metastatic solid tumors is being launched this month by the National Cancer...
View ArticleAdding Chemotherapy Following Radiation Treatment Improves Survival for...
Adults with low-grade gliomas, a form of brain tumor, who received a chemotherapy regimen following completion of radiation therapy, lived longer than patients who received radiation therapy alone,...
View ArticleNIH Study Finds Regular Aspirin Use May Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk
Women who take aspirin daily may reduce their risk of ovarian cancer by 20 percent, according to a study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health....
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