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The fact that diabetes raises the risk of certain types of cancer is already well known, but the reasons have been unclear. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden have mapped a molecular link that explains the connection between the two widespread diseases. Developing type 2 diabetes is a lengthy process. An early sign that it has begun is high levels of insulin in the blood...

The Image Gently® campaign and the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) have launched the "Go With the Guidelines" campaign to encourage community hospitals, academic hospitals and clinics to observe new North American Guidelines for Nuclear Medicine Radiopharmaceutical Dose in children...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center have identified a new drug discovery approach enabling the destruction of the most highly proliferative tumors...

Results of a study by Baylor College of Medicine physicians underscore the important role that clinical genetic evaluation can have in the management plan of patients with retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer of the eye...

Scientists are another step closer to understanding what drives tumor metastasis, as laboratory models suggest there are factors inside tumors that can slow their own growth. In a recent issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Raúl A. Ruggiero, Ph.D...

EDITOR'S PICK: Glioblastoma multiforme in the Dock Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common malignant brain cancer in humans. Patients with GBM have a poor prognosis because it is a highly aggressive form of cancer that is commonly resistant to current therapies...

Researchers from Singapore, Saudi Arabia and China develop a synthesis that yields lanthanide-doped nanocrystals with advanced light-control properties, leading to potential applications in cancer diagnostics, medical imaging and therapeutic delivery Upconversion emission materials are ideal for bioimaging due to its effectiveness as contrast agents for the detection of ca...

The vast majority of deaths from cancer are due to secondary tumors, about 90% of them. Secondary tumors are those from a metastasized cancer; one that has spread to other parts of the body - a tumor that is not in the original tumor site. For cancer cells to break free from the original tumor, they need a bit of help from other cells around them...

Scientists have found a gene whose absence may be an important driver for a common form of skin cancer known as squamous cell cancer (SCC), because its presence signals "Stop!" to cell proliferation. The international team found the gene, called Grhl3, is also virtually absent in SCC that arises in other tissues, including head and neck cancers, that often have a poor prognosis...

According to an investigation published in BMJ Open, the use of the contraceptive pill is linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer worldwide. In developed countries prostate cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer among males and the use of the contraceptive pill has significantly increased over the past 4 decades...

A study published Online First in The Lancet Oncology shows that CT colonography as an additional primary colorectal cancer-screening test could result in a significantly higher participation in screening programs than conventional colonoscopy. Colorectal cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer deaths in Europe...

Despite the widespread use of current antiangiogenic cancer therapies, many tumors escape this blockade, which is designed to shut down growth of new blood vessels that feed tumors and spread cancer cells...

Researchers have created a new phenotypic screening platform that better predicts success of drugs developed to prevent blood vessel tumor growth when moving out of the lab and onto actual tumors. "This platform allows us to predict what's going to happen in preclinical models," said Enrique Zudaire, Ph.D...

The lining of the intestine regenerates itself every few days as compared to say red blood cells that turn over every four months. The cells that help to absorb food and liquid that humans consume are constantly being produced. The various cell types that do this come from stem cells that reside deep in the inner recesses of the accordion-like folds of the intestines, called villi and crypts...

A report in the November issue of the Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals outlines cases of women who survived breast cancer and showed neurological impairment. The problem seems to be markedly worse in those who received chemotherapy compared with those that did not...

When given alongside radiation therapy for head and neck cancer, acupuncture has shown for the first time to reduce the debilitating side effect of xerostomia, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center...

Evelyn Lauder, 75, founder of pink ribbon for cancer awareness, died today from complications of non-genetic ovarian cancer, which had been diagnosed in 2007, at her home in New York City, the Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (ELC) announced today. Her family is said to have been at her bedside as she passed away...

Cells develop and thrive by turning genes on and off as needed in a precise pattern, a process known as regulated gene transcription...

Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have played a major role in two studies that could fundamentally change the medical treatment of liver cancer. Doctors are now able to determine the degree of aggressiveness of the tumour in the early stages and can thus devise an individualised treatment plan...

Researchers from Italy and The Netherlands have developed an "electronic nose" that appears to be able to tell if someone has Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) just from sampling their breath. A report on their study is currently in press but an early issue recently appeared online in the journal Lung Cancer...