Still wondering how you’ll spend your summer vacation? Consider a kid’s cancer camp. Oncology camps offer pediatric cancer patients and their families a great opportunity to have some fun away from the dreary routine of hospital visits. Plus, kids and their parents get to spend some recreational time with others who truly understand what it’s [...]

An alternative health company is asking citizens of the United Kingdom to support legislation which would include herbal supplements and other natural treatments in clinical trials comparing the effectiveness of investigational drugs against a placebo. Sweet Cures of York, a marketer of herbal products and natural remedies, has launched a campaign to gain public support [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A study conducted at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital has shown that some kids with kidney cancers classified “inoperable” may actually be able to keep normal kidney function with the help of a surgical procedure called nephron-sparing surgery. Between 1999 and 2006, St Jude conducted nephron-sparing surgery, otherwise known as partial nephrectomy, on 10 kidney [...]

Court officials in Canada have begun hearing testimony from cancer patients who received inaccurate hormone receptor test results. The public inquiry was launched after it was discovered that hundreds of cancer patients treated by Eastern Health between 1997 and 2005 were given incorrect results for hormone receptor tests. Oncologists use these tests to diagnose the [...]

A British doctor on a humanitarian trip recently performed emergency surgery to remove a brain tumor from a patient in the Ukraine. While that act is pretty amazing in itself, this case gets even more interesting. That’s because the event was captured on camera, the patient was conscious, and the surgeon was using an ordinary [...]

Researchers from Wake Forest University have completed a Phase I study that may help improve the survival rate for patients with appendix cancer or colorectal cancer that’s spread to their abdomen. Wake Forest’s study identified the maximum amount of a chemotherapy drug peritoneal cancer patients can successfully tolerate during Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy (IPHC) treatments following [...]

Research led by the Duke University Medical Center is causing doctors to reconsider the results of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests done on their overweight patients. Duke’s study of 535 men has revealed that males classified as overweight and obese based on their Body Mass Index have deceptively low concentrations of PSA in their bloodstreams [...]

Representatives from five major US cancer care groups have collaborated to create new colorectal cancer screening guidelines designed to detect precancerous adenomas and malignant tumors in patients showing no symptoms. The American Cancer Society, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the American College of Radiology [...]