Cancer Articles

Endometrial cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. A recent study has discovered five new genetic risk factors for endometrial cancer, increasing the number of known genetic regions associated with the endometrial cancer to nine.

American health insurance companies have begun to cover the cost of DNA testing for choosing the best cancer treatments, although they mostly limit coverage to the patients who will benefit from it least.

A large part of the medical profession is head over heels in love with cholesterol-lowering statins. At least in terms of managing risk for colon cancer, statins are not necessarily a good thing.

Cancer research has achieved yet another milestone with the development of “smart packages” that are based on nanotechnology and help treat cancers more efficiently. These packages specifically target the cancer cells and kill them.

Cancer immunotherapy may have just taken a huge leap forward, but it may be too early to get excited about this novel cancer treatment.

A surprising number of treatments for cancer were first discovered in medical plants, but the best herbal medicines for cancer patients are almost never a stand-alone treatment excluding all conventional, pharmaceutical medications.

Quick, painless, noninvasive, and relatively inexpensive, focused ultrasound may soon be used to destroy tumors without the need for surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation.

No one wants to believe that beer, wine, cider, and hard liquor could set the stage for the development of cancer. A growing chorus of experts, however, warns of a cancer connection for alcohol.

Metformin is an extraordinarily effective and extraordinarily inexpensive medication for diabetes, which has the side effect of helping to cure certain kinds of cancer.

Breathing second-hand smoke increases cancer risk in humans. Now research shows that even plants are affected by nicotine in the