Hey I love the book store but, let’s face it, buying a bunch of cancer books can get expensive – especially when you’re a patient with medical expenses to consider. And with chemotherapy, radiation, surgery or lab tests on the schedule, it can be hard to find the time to drive from library to library [...]

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 [...]

A study led by the Methodist Hospital Research Institute indicates extracts from a tropical fungus called Phellinus linteus may combat breast cancer. Methodist Hospital’s results add to previous research suggesting the yellow mushroom is also effective for slowing lung, prostate and skin cancers. Phellinus linteus grows on the bark of mulberry trees and has been [...]

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have begun Phase I clinical trials of a new drug designed to treat myeloproliferative diseases (MPD) that sometimes develop into acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have already used the new drug, an orally-administered compound known as TG101348, to successfully treat chronic blood cancers in [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of two herbal supplements because they contain high levels of aristolochic acid, a potent carcinogen and nephrotoxin found in certain plants and botanicals. Aristolochic acid has been linked with kidney cancer and kidney failure. Both of the carcinogen-containing products, Tou Tong San (Headache Formula) and [...]

Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed an environmentally friendly technique for determining which types of radiation exposure cause the most damage to human DNA – damage that can ultimately lead to cancer. BNL scientists Betsy Sutherland and Brigitte Paap, who’s now at Arizona State University, devised a [...]

Cancer survivors know treatment side effects have a way popping up at inconvenient times and places — sometimes even at the airport. So what do you do if you’re stuck at the airline terminal and you suddenly start to feel ill? These days you might not need to leave the airport to get medical assistance. [...]

Dutch scientists have published a study showing a topical cream called imiquimod effectively treats lesions on the vulva before they become cancerous – a discovery that could one day help women exposed to the human papillomavirus (HPV) avoid cancer surgery on their genitals. The American Cancer Society predicts that approximately 3,500 new cases of vulvar [...]

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) has announced they’re discontinuing Phase III clinical trials on tremelimumab, an experimental treatment for melanoma. The company terminated the trials because their research indicates the developmental drug is no more effective than existing chemotherapies already approved to treat the potentially deadly skin cancer. A representative from Pfizer Global Research [...]

If you’ve had the opportunity to read our manifesto, you already know that finding new and novel ways to improve scientific information sharing relating to cancer is what this publication is all about. During online research for articles on emerging cancer technologies and treatments, I’ve come across some entertaining and informative sites offering high quality [...]