Parasite found in cat poo shows promise in cancer treatment Published: 15 July 2014 Toxoplasma gondii, a microscopic organism native to cats shows promise in treating cancer. Mutated strain of T. gondii has been found to reprogram the natural power…
Ryuichi Sakamoto has throat cancer, cancels all engagements Published: 11 July 2014 Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who shared an Oscar for Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor” score, announced on his site that he has been diagnosed with throat cancer and…
Vitamin D Boosts Bowel Cancer Survival Published: 11 July 2014 A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that bowel cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D in their blood are more likely to survive the…
Cost Effective Technology used by Researchers to unravel Cancer through Standard Imaging Published: 30 June 2013 Researchers have developed a new medical imaging analysis method to predict the risk of dying of cancer. It is called radiomics and it makes…
Global Cancer News: 23 June 2014 Kimmel Cancer Center Researchers Develop Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Published: 23 June 2014 Johns Hopkins University Kimmel Cancer Center’s Researchers have developed a vaccine that “reprograms” pancreatic tumor cells to mount an immune response…
A “game-changing” discovery of a new way to kill leukaemia cells is the first major breakthrough at the $200 million South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). SAHMRI and the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine, made…
Scepticism greets new breast cancer research findings … Professor Valerie Beral, director of the cancer epidemiology unit at Oxford University, and leader of the Million Women’s Study into the causes of the disease, said there could be little confidence in dietary-based…
The Angels’ Doc Neeson, 67, dies … 4 June 2014 The Angels’ frontman and Australian rock icon Bernard Patrick “Doc” Neeson has died at age 67, just 17 months after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. The singer’s Facebook Page…
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