News by Subject Medicine & Health

Scientists have discovered a strange structure inside our cells that helps to prevent cancer by ensuring genetic material is sorted correctly as cells divide. The discovery could improve treatment for breast cancer and possibly other cancers.

Patients with chronic diseases such as cancer often experience fatigue, pain, depression and other symptoms which can lead to distress and functional impairment if left untreated. With the ultimate goal of helping clinicians manage and treat symptoms that negatively affect health and quality of life, researchers from Regenstrief Institute and IUPUI have devised and tested novel methodologies to extract data on symptoms from electronic health records and successfully investigated associations between symptom clusters and disease.

A precise and non-toxic treatment that targets lung cancer cells at the nanoscale is able to effectively kill the cells even at a low dose.

Men with breast cancer are more likely to die than their female counterparts, across all stages of disease, with the disparity persisting even when clinical characteristics, such as cancer types, treatment and access to care are considered, according to a study by Vanderbilt researchers published in JAMA Oncology.

Women with an aggressive, less-common type of breast cancer, known as triple-negative, versus a more common form of the disease, could be differentiated from each other by a panel of 17 small RNA molecules that are directly influenced by genetic alterations typically found in cancer cells.

University of East Anglia scientists are pioneering a new way of finding cancer-causing germs. Some infections have already been linked with cancers including stomach cancer and cervical cancer. New research shows how genomic data collected from tumours could be sequenced to reveal other associated bacteria and viruses.

An international team of researchers has found a different way cancer becomes resistant to chemotherapy, suggesting a new target for drugs.