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Researchers have identified biochemical changes that commonly occur in the DNA of women with ovarian cancer, which may help…
The Federal Government’s main medical research funding body, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), last week announced its 2011 program and development grants, and postgraduate scholarship…
Children whose fathers smoked around the time of conception have a 35 per cent higher risk of developing childhood leukaemia…
Boys are likely be offered subsidised vaccinations against the sexually transmitted, wart and cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) following a government committee recommendation to expand the use…
More than 50% of men diagnosed with cancer in Australia are utilising alternative medicine in an effort to fight the illness…
More than 50% of men diagnosed with cancer in Australia are turning to complementary and alternative medicine to help find…
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have found ways to make treatments for bone marrow cancer more effective. Drugs that modulate…
Cancer death rates are falling in Australia even as incidences rise of lung cancer in women and prostate cancer in men, according to research published today in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology…
The Catholic church should freely distribute the contraceptive pill to its almost 95,000 nuns in order to reduce their “greatly increased risk” of developing female-specific cancers, a paper published…
A new study has demonstrated how we can alter the survival of cancer cells. The work demonstrates for the first time that…
Families at risk of bowel cancer may be missing out on important testing, researchers from the University of Melbourne have…
Two cancer-spurring gene rearrangements have been discovered by researchers at the University of Michigan. These genetic…
Researchers at New York University have discovered a protein that can have effects on tumour spread. The protein is called…
Eating a high fibre diet is associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer, according to a new study published on bmj.com…
For more than a decade, the Tasmanian devil has been fighting for survival against an unusual enemy – Devil Facial Tumour Disease (or DFTD). This deadly infectious cancer has ravaged the Tasmanian devil…
Researchers have created a biosensor that measures membrane lipid levels, possibly opening up new pathways to disease treatment…
The removal of diseased animals from the landscape will not control the spread of facial tumour disease among Tasmanian devils…
Every year at the beginning of October, a frisson runs through the global medical research community. Who will win the greatest lottery of them all, the Nobel Prize for Medicine? In a cynical and sceptical…
The effects of fruit and vegetable consumption on colorectal cancer (CRC) appear to differ by site of origin, according to…
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