Want to learn more about HPV, cervical cancer or ovarian cancer? University of Washington Television offers programs that you can watch at home or on the run.

Cancer advocates rejoice as President Bush signs GINA, a bill which prohibits employers and health insurers from discrimination based on genetic information.

Filmmaker and cancer pre-vivor Joanna Rudnick chronicles the struggles of women with a genetic predisposition to cancer — her project airs Oct 7th on PBS.

If you’ve been reading our journal for a while, you know I’m a big fan of OR-Live, an innovative web site that lets you watch cutting-edge medical procedures from the comfort of your own home. OR-Live covers a wide variety of operations going on around the country and tonight’s will involve a cancer patient. This [...]

Weighing the risks and benefits of birth control pills? Here’s a snapshot of some of the new research relating to oral contraceptives and their impact on cancer risk. Birth Control Pill Use Cuts Ovarian Cancer Risk from American Cancer Society News and Features Cancer Risk Among Users of Oral Contraceptives from BMJ Cervical cancer risk [...]

Researchers from the University of Minnesota and Duke University have discovered how specific proteins regulate genes responsible for turning cancer cells on or off in women with breast and ovarian cancers. To arrive at their finding, the team studied 408 breast cancer patients and 153 ovarian cancer patients. Their investigation revealed that increased activity in [...]

A team of international researchers has discovered a platinum-based compound which is activated by light and potent enough to kill cancers resistant to Cisplatin treatments. Scientists from the University of Warwick, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Dundee and the Czech Republic’s Institute of Biophysics found the new compound, known as light-activated PtIV complex, [...]

Scientists from the University of Chieti in Italy have found that a gene which normally functions in the placenta during the early stages of pregnancy is also expressed in most human cancers. Professor Saverio Alberti and his team discovered that the Trop-2 gene was involved in the formation of invasive cells needed during the stage [...]

Two common cancers–one which strikes women and another that strikes men–will be sharing the spotlight next month. President George W. Bush has signed a pair of official proclamations declaring September 2007 National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. The proclamations serve as a tribute to the many scientists, researchers, and healthcare [...]

Nanotechnology is being used by an Australian team to build mini-cells which can specifically attack malignant cancer cells while leaving healthy tissue unaffected. The new cells are about one-fifth the size of a normal cell and can release drugs directly into cancerous tumors. It is hoped that the new technique could be used to treat [...]