Immune System Therapeutics Ltd. (ISTL) will conduct a second trial of its patented drug for bone marrow cancer using a $1.8 million grant from the federal government's Commercialisation Australia.
After beating cancer, while the body is clear from harm's way, the mind of survivors may not be as ready to go back to its normal cancer-free state.
An electronic nose could be used as a simple breath test to detect lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancers, Israeli scientists said Wednesday.
According to a recent study conducted by Australian scientists -published in the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention journal, the drugs used in the treatment of asthma by thousands of men may be increasing the risk of developing prostate cancer.
The first of its kind in Australasia, a machine that checks for circulating tumor cells, called the CellSearch has been announced as a significant breakthrough in the treatment for advanced prostate cancer in Australian men.
A team of scientists from the Children's Medical Research Institute are working hard to unravel the structure of a protein present in 85 per cent of all cancers, in order to design a breakthrough drug to destroy cancer cells.
Australian scientists have finally confirmed that the risk of developing skin cancer before hitting 40 is nearly double among young people who use solariums.
The recently released survey conducted by the Cancer Council Victoria reveals an interesting observation - majority of Victorians are clueless about the fact that failure to exercise can rise up their risk of developing cancer.
A large study in Japan into possible genetic causes for prostate cancer has uncovered five new gene variants which have never been seen in previous studies in Caucasians, researchers said on Monday.
Scientists at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne have furthered the understanding of programmed cell death (apoptosis) and its role in tumor development.
Cooking of starch-loaded foods such as potatoes a high temperatures releases a chemical called acrylamide - has been proven to cause cancer, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports.
The latest fix of Queensland junkies comes in the form of a potent anaesthetic patch for cancer patients as their pain control management.
Many men with low-risk prostate cancer get aggressive treatment, increasing the risk of serious side effects, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
A recent study has found that eating more red and processed meat each day leads to weight gain for both men and women.
The Charity Cancer Research (CCR) in Britain has reported that more women are developing womb cancer nowadays compared to 35 years ago.
Melanoma is on the rise among certain groups of dark-skinned Floridians, new research shows.
Children and young adults who were conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) have a slightly increased risk of developing cancer, relative to those conceived naturally, researchers from Sweden reported Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
Cancer specialists in Australia are calling for a national policy on genetic testing of cancer patients in public and private hospitals to identify who can receive particular drugs that work only in the presence or absence of a particular gene.
The researchers decoded a complete cascade of signals within breast tumour cells activated by virgin olive oil, and concluded that benefits include decrease in the activity of the oncogene p21Ras, changes in protein signaling pathways, stimulation of tumour cell death and prevention of DNA damage. The study was carried out in an experimental model and researchers have already begun a new study wit...
There is great confusion among the scientific community about whether women who are drug abusers should breast feed their babies. In order to shed some light on this issue, scientists from various Spanish hospitals and research centres are reviewing the methods used to detect substances in breast milk, their adverse effects, and the recommendations that mothers should follow in this month's issue ...
British scientists who conducted the largest study yet into cell phone masts and childhood cancers say that living close to a mast does not increase the risk of a pregnant woman's baby developing cancer.
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found a way to disable a common protein that often thwarts chemotherapy treatment of several major forms of cancer.
