tumor

Personal cancer vaccine research 'exciting' say experts

Posted in Medicine on 3rd Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Tailor-made cancer vaccines that target unique genetic errors in a patient's tumour have been developed in the US.

Pioneering surgery 'saves bowels' when removing polyps

Posted in Medicine on 16th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

Pioneering surgeons have developed a technique to preserve the bowels when removing pre-cancerous growths.

New nanodevice defeats drug resistance and releases cancer drugs

Posted in Medicine on 11th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers were able to shrink tumors by 90 percent in two weeks.

A dose of extra oxygen can rev up cancer-fighting immune cells

Posted in Medicine on 9th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

Boosting oxygen in the air helped mice with cancer battle lung and breast tumors.

Cancer-fighting nanoparticles carry medicine to tumors in the lungs

Posted in Medicine on 6th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

A new nanoparticle is capable of carrying cancer-fighting drugs to a tumor site in the lungs before releasing them.