Chronic stress effects help cancer spread, researchers find
Chronic stress accelerates cancer growth in mice, according to a new study, pointing to potential treatment targets to slow the progression of cancer to other organs.
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Treating ‘stage 0’ breast cancer doesn’t always save women’s lives so should we screen for it?
We're told that finding symptoms of disease early will prevent the more serious consequences. But for pre-cancerous lesions, also known as stage 0 breast cancer, the picture is much more complicated.
Explainer: why do some breast cancers come back?
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the Western world, with 15,000 women (and about 70 men) diagnosed each year in Australia.
Can elusive cancer stem cells seed new tumours months after chemotherapy?
The theory that some rare cancer cells aren't caught by conventional chemotherapy has divided the field.
Clumped cancer cells spread more efficiently through the body than lone ones
Nine out of ten cancer patients die because cancer cells enter the blood circulation, spread and form tumours at distant organs. In circulation, cells can move individually or in a cluster. It is believed…
Compound prevents tumour metastasis in mice
Belgium researchers have pinpointed a family of pharmaceutical compounds that can prevent the appearance of human tumour…
Stitching mice together reveals how ovarian cancer spreads
Ovarian cancer is the fifth highest killer in women when it comes to cancer, according to statistics from the American Cancer Society, with about 14,000 deaths in the United States alone this year. The…
New test measures risk of breast cancer spreading
A new test may predict the risk of the most common type of breast cancer spreading to other organs. The effectiveness of…
Cancer cells use body’s wound-healing mechanism to spread
Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumour to different organs, is responsible for more than 90% of deaths due to cancer. Current treatments such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy are effective…
Nanoparticles cause cancer cells to die and stop spreading
More than nine in ten cancer-related deaths occur because of metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumour…
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