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Fewer middle-aged people are dying from cancer in the UK than at any point over the last 25 years, a new study from Cancer Research UK has revealed. * Published in the British Medical Journal, this is the first major study to examine trends in cancer incidence and mortality amongst middle-aged adults (35-69 yrs.) in …
Image: Breast cancer cell Credit Breast cancer cell spheroid, SEM. Credits: Khuloud T. Al-Jamal, David McCarthy & Izzat Suffian. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Their research, funded by Breast Cancer Now, reveals the mechanism that triggers this breast cancer ‘time bomb’ — and suggests a strategy to defuse it. Patients with oestrogen receptor positive …
Radiotherapy has emerged as an important component of breast cancer treatment, but can lead to cancer-related fatigue and negatively impact patients’ health-related quality of life. ECU research has revealed exercise may make life more tolerable for patients. Breast cancer is the most common form of the disease among women; in Australia, one in eight women …
Alarmingly, Cancers in Adults Under 50 on the Rise Globally Over recent decades, more and more adults under the age of 50 are developing cancer. A study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of Mass General Brigham, reveals that the incidence of early onset cancers (those diagnosed before age 50), …
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have definitively linked the function of a specific domain of proteins important in plant-microbe biology to a cancer trigger in humans, knowledge that had eluded scientists for decades. The team’s findings, published in Nature Communications Biology, open up a new avenue for the development of …
Vast improvements in instrumentation opens the door to identify and quantify various biologic substances and heralds a new area of investigation. This process is called metabolomics. In the paper, cited below, the definition of the metabolomics is as follows: “Metabolomics is the global identification and quantification of a set of small molecules such as carbohydrates, …
A new research result questions whether the benefits of breast cancer screenings has gradually declined to a degree that it is too small in relation to the costs in the form of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Researchers from Aarhus University are behind Screening for breast cancer has a cost. This is shown by a Danish/Norwegian study …
Eating meat five times or less per week is associated with lower overall cancer risk, according to a study published in the open-access journal BMC Medicine. Cody Watling and colleagues from the University of Oxford, UK investigated the relationship between diet and cancer risk by analyzing data collected from 472,377 British adults who were recruited …
Computer engineers and radiologists at Duke University have developed an artificial intelligence platform to analyze potentially cancerous lesions in mammography scans to determine if a patient should receive an invasive biopsy. But unlike its many predecessors, this algorithm is interpretable, meaning it shows physicians exactly how it came to its conclusions. The researchers trained the …
Bacteria generally have a bad reputation, as people first think of certain strains that can cause serious illnesses like pneumonia or meningitis. However, there are many helpful bacteria, known as probiotics, that assist the body in different ways. University of Cincinnati researchers have now engineered a probiotic designed to target and break down cancer cell …