Coordinates: 30°00′N 90°36′W / 30.0°N 90.6°W A mound of oil drums near the Baton Rouge ExxonMobil Refinery along the Mississippi River in December 1972. Cancer Alley (French: Allée du Cancer) is the regional nickname given to an 85-mile (137 km) stretch … Read more
KATE MOSS, a British model, once quipped that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. Drinkers of Diet Coke, the sugar-free version of the stuff in red cans, and of which Ms Moss is the current face, may agree. Why … Read more
A pill taken once a day cuts the risk of dying from lung cancer by half, according to “thrilling” and “unprecedented” results from a decade-long global study. Taking the drug osimertinib after surgery dramatically reduced the risk of patients dying … Read more
Metastasizing cancer cells travel from one place in the body to another, to grow into a new tumour.Credit: Science Photo Library Cancer is at its deadliest when a tumour’s cells worm their way into the bloodstream and travel to a … Read more
Abstract Background Research on glucosamine shows anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits with minimal adverse effects. We aimed to explore the relationship between use of glucosamine and risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality based on data from the large-scale nationwide … Read more
The cancer vaccine field is littered with promising products that failed to show clinical efficacy. Could it finally be on the verge of a first US approval? If any field epitomizes the boom and bust cycles of biotech, it would … Read more
On February 2, 2022, President Biden announced plans to reignite the Cancer Moonshot to end cancer as we know it. As Vice President, in 2016, Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot with the mission to accelerate the rate of progress … Read more
Imagine you could cure cancer by targeting one tiny gene. Imagine that same gene occurred in every major cancer, including breast, prostate, lung, liver and colon. Imagine that the gene is not essential for healthy activity, so you could attack … Read more
13th September 2021 mRNA cancer therapy enters human trials after success in mice BioNTech, the company that partnered with Pfizer to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, is now testing whether mRNA can be used to treat cancer. Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines … Read more
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