At 33, Lori Hamilton is on the race circuit helping manage a NASCAR team and raising awareness about head and neck cancer, the disease that killed her husband.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Research conducted by the John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI) at Saint John’s Health Center indicates the receptor protein CCR9 may promote the spread of melanoma to the small intestine. Unlike other cancers, melanoma skin cancer commonly metastasizes to the lower bowel and, until recently, scientists were at a loss to explain the connection. JWCI’s study [...]

According to the American Cancer Society, more than 67,000 new cases of bladder cancer and over one million cases of skin cancer were diagnosed last year. And once those patients heard that distressing news, they were each faced with the challenge of choosing the right treatment option for their condition. To help patients and their [...]

The process of conducting cancer research is getting faster for a group of University of Minnesota scientists. Representatives from the Hormel Institute announced they’ve purchased an IBM (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene supercomputer capable of processing 5-6 trillion operations a second – a speed that’ll allow Hormel to triple the number of research projects it undertakes. [...]

Thanks to modern medicine, more than 220,000 organ transplant recipients are living in the United States today. Unfortunately, many of those transplant patients will soon be facing another challenge — skin cancer. Skin cancer rates in the organ transplant population have continued to grow over recent years, reaching rates up to 200 times greater than [...]

According to an article published in UroToday, a tissue sparing procedure called Moh’s Micrographic Surgery, or MMS, may help men with certain forms of penile cancer. MMS, already a proven therapy for some skin cancers, involves intra-operative microscopic examination of sectioned tissue by a specially trained dermatologic surgeon. The surgery maximizes the amount of normal [...]

The growing popularity of tanning in East Asia has Korean dermatologists keeping a close eye on skin cancer rates. Although the number of skin cancer cases reported in Asian countries is still relatively low when compared to the United States and Australia, statistics from the Korea Central Cancer Registry show incidences of the disease have [...]

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 [...]