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The Guardian: Blood test could use DNA to spot eight of the most common cancers, study shows DNA and biomarkers could be used to detect...

Jen Christensen, CNN : Is the cure for cancer real or rhetoric? (CNN)President Barack Obama's State of the Union address announced ...

Did This 15-Year-Old Just Change The Course Of Medicine? Schoolboy Invents Early Test For Pancreatic Cancer That Killed Steve Jobs -- Da...

Feed A Fever, Starve A Cancer? -- Future Pundit Have modern sterile environments and antibiotics boosted the rate of cancer? Do we need to ...

MRI showing prostate cancer in a 75 year old male. Photo: ALAMY New Treatment For Prostate Cancer Gives 'Perfect Results' For Nine ...

The treatment, developed by Bavarian-Nordic Immunotherapeutics, is aimed at men with advanced prostate cancer which cannot be cured by castr...

The Business Of Cancer -- Al Jazeera As advancements in DNA sequencing technology lead to personalised treatments, we examine the cost of th...

A vaccine that can train cancer patients' own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells has been developed by scientists Photo: ALAMY ...

Out of control: biologists still cannot explain why cancerous cells will proliferate and spread to other organs if unchecked The Final Front...

Lung cancer in a woman Photo: Alamy Lung Cancer Rates Double In Women Over 60 Since 1970s -- The Telegraph Lung cancer rates for retired wom...

Photo: Holy Mole-y The Verisante Aura uses Raman spectroscopy to analyze moles and other skin growths for the presence of malignant cells n...

Image: Capturing cancer cells: A new microfluidics chip designed to isolate tumor cells from blood captures clusters of cancer cells, shown...

An animation showing the fluorescence process when the quantum dot is in the so-called "on" state. Credit: Ovidiu Toader, Vancouve...

From The Telegraph: Throat cancer cases have soared by 50 per cent in men in the last 25 years due to obesity and bad diet, researchers have...

Cancer Research UK funded the study into gene therapy. Photograph: Graham Turner From The Guardian: Development could lead to treatments tai...

From Discovery News: There are safety-warning labels on cigarettes and alcohol. Now some groups are advocating that similar cautions be prin...

PUSHING IT: Stress is linked indirectly to the immune system's anti-tumor defenses, but it can also affect anoikis--a type of cell death...

Image: The finding may offer a new strategy for fighting cancer (Source: iStockphoto) From ABC News (Australia): Instead of killing off can...

Cascade which activates cell protection programs. (Credit: Graphic by Clemens Schmitt) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Mar. 18, 2010) — C...