While cancer survival rates in children and older Americans have dramatically improved in recent years, studies show survival statistics for teens and young adults remain virtually unchanged.
Why is there such a disparity?
The August 31, 2007, edition of Science Magazine Podcast discusses possible reasons why recent advancements have not helped this particular age group and steps [...]

Scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the international Pediatric Preclinical Testing Program have been busy trying to unlock the healing secrets of an unusual bacteria discovered in soil samples taken from the volcanic regions of Easter Island.
The bacteria produced a substance known as rapamycin, which was initially shown to be an effective [...]

Fertility research being done in Israel is giving new hope to young cancer patients who hope to have children one day. For the first time, doctors have extracted eggs from young female cancer patients and successfully matured them in a laboratory.
Once the removed eggs completed the hormone-induced maturation process in the lab, [...]

Debate over the safety of aspartame has reignited as a result of a second Italian study linking the artificial sweetener to several cancers in rats.
The controversial research, conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation in Bologna, Italy, showed an increased instance of leukemia, lymphoma and renal cancers in a population of Sprague Dawley rats [...]

Most scientists have long believed that disruptions in the routine life cycle of stem cells were responsible for the group of blood disorders known as myeloproliferative syndromes. However, new research now has them looking in a different direction: to faulty bone marrow.
According to two studies just published in the journal Cell, [...]