cancer
Breath test 'could give clues to stomach cancer risk'
Posted in Medicine on 14th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
A simple breath test could help predict whether people with gut problems are at high risk of developing stomach cancer, an early study shows.
US funded Study Confirms that Chemicals in Marijuana Help Fight Brain Cancer
Posted in Medicine on 11th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
The US National Institute on Drug Abuse has officially announced that marijuana holds the power to kill cancer cells.
Biologists Map the Habits of Cancer Cells
Posted in Medicine on 10th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
Using an approach that merges engineering and medicine, a team has compiled some of the most sophisticated data yet on the signaling networks directing highly invasive cancer cells.
Using sound waves to detect rare circulating cancer cells
Posted in Medicine on 9th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
A team of engineers is developing a novel way to isolate cancer cells that circulate in the bloodstream: using sound waves to separate them from blood cells.
The skin cancer rise is 'linked to the package holiday boom'
Posted in Medicine on 6th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
A boom in cheap package holidays in the 1960s is partly behind the "worrying rise" in skin cancers in pensioners, Cancer Research UK suggests.