WHAT use would it be to weigh a single living cell? Microscopic scales that do just that may help doctors to predict how a person’s cancer will respond to anti-cancer drugs. The scales are actually a tiny maze of fluid-filled channels, 10 to 15 micrometres wide, sitting on a chip attached to various sensors. Computer-controlled [...]
Adding to research linking alcohol to breast cancer risk, a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that adolescent girls with a family history of breast disease – either cancer or the benign lesions that can become cancer – have a higher risk of developing benign breast disease as young [...]
For men with locally advanced or high-risk prostate cancer, treatment with a combination of radiation therapy and hormone therapy appears to be more effective than hormone therapy alone. These results were published in The Lancet. Locally advanced prostate cancer refers to cancer that has spread through the prostate capsule but not to distant sites in the [...]