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It is indeed sad when you see your near and dear ones suffering from a painful disease, for which, the treatment as well, is as painful as the disease itself -- like cancer. While Radiotherapy has treated cancer far more effectively than any other...

Discovering that cancer-growing cells start in bone marrow, scientists said this is something to look forward to in finding better treatments for cancer patients. Preliminary studies were made by the Australian researchers and confirmed positive...

Till now, chemotherapy was taken as the last hope for patients with cancer. Well, the good new is soon to buzz all afflicted with cancer. According to this news, therapy called radioimmunotherapy is far more effective against cancer cells....

Researchers at Seattle children's Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Centre have taken one more step in their fight against cancer by developing a paint that can illuminate cancer cells to help surgeons locate even a...

Dundee University researchers are inching closer towards figuring out why people contract cancer. The study showed that people carrying a particular variant of a specific gene were less likely to contract lung cancer. The variant gene has also been...

For the first time in medical history, a woman in Montreal has frozen 21 of her eggs so that her six year old daughter having Turners syndrome could use them in future. Turner's syndrome occurs in about one out of every 2,500 girls, according to...

Good news for cancer patients!! A bacterium protecting sea life has been found out to contain cancer fighting properties. Researchers of the Oregon Health & Science University state that a gene cluster has been discovered from a bacterium which has...

Finally, the South Oxfordshire-based Diamond Light Source synchrotron, which is the largest science facility to be created in UK for 30 years, is now open to business. The gargantuan machine that is intended for use in varied fields including medicine...

Much has been talked about the use of mobile phones. In this series, where some studies showed that mobile phone use leads to sperm deterioration while some associated it with tumor formation and Alzheimer's disease. However, this time researchers are...

How would you like the idea if I say that now cancer fighting drugs would not be made in factories but in the poultry farms. Sounds strange, but it's true. Actually, due to tireless efforts of the British scientists a flock of genetically modified...