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08/23/2018 / By David Williams

Scientists close to developing a blood test that can detect cancers

Wouldn’t it be great if you could swing by a pharmacy or visit the nearest health center, get one all-purpose test kit, draw some blood, wait a few minutes, and find out definitively whether or not you have some form of cancer? That’s the dream behind a new research study recently published in the journal […]

07/05/2018 / By S.D. Wells

Ultra-quick electric pulses KILLING cancer cells – Time for the world to pay close attention

For more than a decade, a team of cancer researchers at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia have been studying a new type of cancer therapy that utilizes nano-second stimulation by ultra-fast electrical pulses to kill tumor cells, and now, after testing it out on mice, it’s working. Generating about 3 million pulses in […]

06/08/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

New experimental cancer cure helping some patients when chemotherapy fails

There are plenty of heartbreaking stories about chemotherapy failing, but once in a while, that failure can actually have a happy ending. That’s what happened to 52-year-old Judy Perkins, who found herself a few months from death as breast cancer spread throughout her body. She had a mastectomy and had her lymph nodes taken out […]

06/02/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Biologist discovers one molecule that makes naked mole rats almost immune to cancer

Naked mole rats have long been a source of fascination to scientists. These cold-blooded mammals can go as long as 18 minutes without oxygen, they form breeding colonies like insects, and they appear not to age, which means they’re as likely to die when they’re 25 as they are when they’re 1. Females don’t undergo […]

07/26/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Why the cancer industry doesn’t want you to learn the truth about anti-cancer foods: Combination of apple peel, turmeric root and grape skins found to BEAT prostate cancer

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have discovered something that the cancer industry would prefer you don’t know about: A combination of natural, everyday foods can help prevent the growth of prostate cancer. While past studies have looked at the potential of individual foods to help the fight against this disease, the new […]

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