An inspirational book is helping dogs with cancer receive expensive medical treatments their owners can’t afford to give them. Cliff and I: My Dog’s Journey Through Cancer and Beyond chronicles the author’s personal experience helping her German Shepherd battle cancer. As a tribute to her beloved pet, Cliff’s writer Joanne M. DeFluri is donating the [...]

A study conducted by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital shows chloroquine, a common prescription drug used to treat malaria, prevents certain types of cancers from developing. The Scripps and St Jude’s researchers used mouse models to test chloroquine’s impact on tumors. Their investigation revealed the drug blocked Burkitt [...]

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 [...]

The international charity Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHSF) has successfully completed an exhausting 14-day trek and acoustic rock concert at the base camp of Mount Everest to raise funds for the Nepal Cancer Relief Society. Musicians from The Alarm, Stray Cats, The Fixx, Squeeze and other groups performed at the event held at an elevation [...]

Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is uncovering new information about a protein that appears to help cancer-causing viruses hide from the body’s natural defense system. The protein under scrutiny is known as LANA, short for latency-associated nuclear antigen. Penn’s study showed the LANA protein enabled Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpes Virus (KSHV) to [...]

No, it’s not a tiny bird. Or the latest step on Dancing With The Stars. Actually, mini-Whipple is the nickname of a surgical procedure used to treat pancreatic cancer. The proper medical term for the procedure is pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy and the technique is used to remove tumors in the head of the pancreas while sparing [...]

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, they were [...]

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 who [...]