A study of children involved in cancer treatments and other trials indicates most of them are willing to put themselves in harm’s way to further research projects and charitable causes, even if the activities wouldn’t benefit them personally. To arrive at the findings, scientists from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and the National [...]

Approximately 11,000 people between the ages of 15 and 40 are diagnosed with cancer each year in England. While many patients in this age group go on to become long-term cancer survivors, a large percentage of them are rendered infertile as a result of their cancer treatments. Modern medicine continues to offer new options for [...]

A cooperative effort between the The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has yielded the first reference standards for nanoscale particles used by scientists conducting biomedical research. Nanoparticles have played a major role in many cancer research projects in recent years — [...]

A multi-million dollar government contract awarded to develop a treatment for military personnel attacked with radioactive weapons could also benefit leukemia patients whose bodies reject bone marrow transplants. Osiris Therapeutics, Inc (NASDAQ: OSIR) will receive up to $224.7M from the US Department of Defense to speed development of Prochymal™, an intravenous drug designed to treat [...]

Every year patients in the United States and around the world die while they wait on organ transplant lists for organs that never become available. While surveys indicate a majority of people are willing to donate organs after their death, a much lower percentage actually get around to registering as an organ donor. Now Scotland [...]

Officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) would like to know if space travel increases an astronaut’s risk of developing leukemia. To find out, they are turning to scientists at Stony Brook University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Texas. The researchers will use mice and a $1.4M grant from NASA [...]

The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) has officially opened its doors in Edinburgh, Scotland. The new institute brings together resources and funding from the Medical Research Council’s Human Genetics Unit, the Centre for Molecular Medicine, the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, and Cancer Research UK including more than 500 scientists involved in multidisciplinary studies [...]

Research conducted by the NSW Cancer Institute in New South Wales, Australia, is predicting lung cancer will soon replace breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among NSW women. According to the institute’s statistics, lung cancer will kill 43 more NSW women annually than breast cancer by the year 2010. And while increasing [...]

If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of cancer patients receiving medical treatment in US hospitals each year, or a caregiver designated to handle their legal affairs, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the process of filling out forms. These days, forms are such a routine part of the treatment process that most facilities ask patients [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued new warnings on several drugs commonly prescribed for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatments. The drugs, known as Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents or ESAs, contain genetically engineered proteins used to increase red blood cell counts in many patients with cancer or chronic kidney failure. The new warnings caution that [...]