cancer
Blood test may give early warning of skin cancer relapse
Posted in Medicine on 7th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller
A blood test may be able to sound early warning bells that patients with advanced melanoma skin cancer are relapsing.
Scientists finally get past the blood-brain barrier to treat cancer
Posted in Science on 5th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller
The brain's defenses have long thwarted doctors from treating cancer.
Scientists 'find cancer's Achilles heel'
Posted in Science on 4th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller
Scientists believe they have discovered a way to "steer" the immune system to kill cancers.
Doctors implant 3D-printed vertebrae in 'world's first' surgery
Posted in Hardware on 27th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
Without this procedure, the patient's cancer would have left him a quadriplegic.
Ordinary skin cells turned into brain tumor predators
Posted in Medicine on 25th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
Glioblastomas are the most common and fatal form of brain cancer, carrying a survival rate beyond two years of just 30 percent.