One of the top cancer centers in the US is using Apple technology to share cancer research news with the public. The best part: you can listen to it free!

One of the top cancer treatment facilities in the world is offering you the opportunity to e-mail your questions about cancer to their oncology experts. The Mayo Clinic web site has a feature called Ask a Cancer Specialist which allows anybody with internet access the chance to ask Mayo’s experienced specialists their tough cancer questions [...]

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a new light-activated nanomachine which can store anticancer drugs and release them into cancer cells. Researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA created the tiny cargo-carrying nanoparticles as a mechanism to deliver targeted chemotherapy drugs or dyes [...]

Patients being treated for metastatic colorectal cancer in Europe just got a new treatment option. Capecitabine, which is marketed by Switzerland-based pharmaceutical company Roche under the trade name Xeloda, has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer. European health officials approved the oral tablets for use in combination with [...]

Scientists from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) BioMicroMechanical Systems (BioMEMS) Resource Center and the MGH Cancer Center have developed a new microchip-based device that can isolate circulating tumor cells (CTC) in a blood sample. The new CTC-chip is a business-card sized silicon chip covered with almost 80,000 microscopic posts smaller than a human hair. The [...]

Research conducted by the University of Minnesota shows women with diabetes are 50 percent more likely to develop colorectal cancer than non-diabetic women. To perform their study, the team analyzed data on over 45,000 women who participated in a large-scale breast cancer study conducted at 29 medical facilities during the 1970s. The records indicated females [...]

Research conducted at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center has found that a natural compound helps break down treatment-resistant pancreatic cancer. The compound, known as triptolide, is a toxic agent which has been used as a natural medicine in China for hundreds of years. In the Minnesota study, Ashok Saluja, PhD, discovered triptolide had the [...]

Sometimes it can be difficult to detect exactly what causes a viral video to break out and become popular. That’s certainly not the case though with the growing circulation of Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch‘s inspirational talk Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. Dr. Pausch’s sense of humor in the face of his bleak pancreatic [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]