Circumcision may help prevent prostate cancer, but only if the operation takes place before the person has sex for the first time. Jonathan Wright at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and colleagues asked 3000 men – around half of whom had prostate cancer – if they had been circumcised and when they first [...]
A large study strongly supports the value of regular mammogram screenings starting at age 40. From 1990 to 2008, while more women age 40 to 49 were getting screening mammograms: more breast cancers were diagnosed breast cancers tended to be diagnosed at an earlier and more treatable stage more women were eligible for lumpectomy instead [...]
Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it. Now, researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how an advanced form of melanoma gets around an inhibitor, Zelboraf, which targets the mutated BRAF gene. By examining the part of the melanoma [...]