Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used to harden plastics, has been used since the 1960s to make a number of consumer goods such as bottles and cans. In the past several years, potential health risks associated with the chemical have come to ...
A study with mice suggests that exposure in the womb to the plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) could put males at greater risk for prostate cancer later in life. The findings are early, however, and can't prove a causal link between BPA ...
Tags: Cancer Risk, Plastics Chemical, BPA
After chemotherapy, surgery and radiation to treat the original tumor might not benefit women with advanced breast cancer, a new study shows. A minority of women with breast cancer discover they have the disease in its later stages, after ...
Tags: advanced breast cancer, chemotherapy, original breast tumor, women health
A new test marketed as an alternative to a mammogram for breast cancer detection is not an effective screening TOOL, U.S. health officials say. With the nipple aspirate test, a breast pump collects fluid from a woman's nipple. The fluid ...
Tags: FDA, mammogram, breast cancer detection, nipple aspirate test
A novel microfluidics device by IBM could be a boon to the oncology market. The new device can assist oncologists in identifying different types of cancer, offering several improvements over existing biopsy techniques. When a patient has ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Microfluidics Device
US-based Seno Medical Instruments has announced new statistical analysis of outcomes from a feasibility study of its investigational Imagio breast imaging device. The analysis of data from the feasibility study, presented at the San ...
Metabolism was lost in the shadows of cancer research for decades but has recently been reclaiming some of the spotlight. Now, Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist with Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division and a leading authority on ...
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals will collaborate with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on a clinical study that will assess the safety and activity of a radiolabeled, humanized monoclonal antibody from its RIGS (radio-immuno-guided ...
VBL Therapeutics has secured fast track status from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its lead oncology drug VB-111, for prolongation of survival in patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme (rGBM). VB-111 was already ...
Sometimes a regular digital camera has the potential to shed light on eye conditions. In the case of infant Noah Shaw, it may have been an early warning of cancer—and an advance in ophthalmology, according to a recent report in ...
Tags: Ophthalmology, Baby Photos, Popular Science
"There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all being systematically suppressed by ... the major oncology centers. They have too much of an interest in the status quo," stated Dr Robert Atkins, MD, creator of the ...
Scientists from the medical sciences division at Penn State University have discovered that a compound in fish oil appears to target leukemia stem cells and could lead to a cure for the disease. The compound is a natural extract from EPA, ...
IceCure Medical has announced that the John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI) at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, treated its first breast cancer patient using the IceSense3 cryoablation system in a pilot study evaluating ...
Scientists from IBM and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic hydrogel that can deliver ...
Tags: Cancer Drug, Medicine
Nucletron, an Elekta Company, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Esteya electronic brachytherapy system, a new approach for high precision skin cancer treatment. Depending on a small, high dose ...