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Experimental rectal cancer drug caused all patients' tumors to disappear in small trial
More research is needed to know if the patients' cancer could return.
Over 100 brain tumors linked to NJ high school: Is it a cancer cluster?
An investigation is underway to determine if the school is linked with a cancer cluster.
Cancer diagnosis: Detection, testing and research
Reference Cancer can affect any part of the body, requiring doctors to employ robust methods such as MRI scans, blood tests and computed tomography to detect and classify it.
Bizarre knotted DNA structures linked to cancer in mice
Missing enzymes may cause troublesome knots to appear in DNA.
Dormant cancer cells may 'reawaken' due to change in this key protein
Cancer cells can lie dormant for years and then suddenly start spreading.
HPV vaccine slashes cervical cancer rates by 87% among women in the UK
The HPV vaccine reduced cases of cervical cancer by 87% among women in the U.K. who received the vaccine when they were 12 or 13 years old, according to a new study.
What is cancer?
Cancer malignancies are uncontrolled growths that spread. Learn how cancers form, the signs and symptoms of cancer and how cancers are treated.
Antibiotics may raise colon cancer risk, massive study suggests
This is the largest epidemiological study to assess this potential risk.
