Removing an extra two millimeters around an area of invasive breast cancer is sufficient to minimize any residual disease in 98 percent of patients, according a study of 303 women just published. ...

A first-ever, long-term study of patients who underwent robot-assisted surgery to remove their cancerous prostates found that nearly 87 percent of them had no recurrence of the disease after five years. The findings were reported in this month's issue o...

Yale University researchers have found a gene that seems to be a key contributor to the onset of depression and is a promising target for a new class of antidepressants....

An internationally-recognized gynecologic oncologist at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., is warning that the results from a long-awaited global study of ovarian cancer should be viewed cautiously....

Researchers have developed a genetic tool in mice to speed the discovery of novel genes involved in cancer. The system -- called PiggyBac -- involves disrupting or altering the mouse genome using "jumping genes" (known as transposons) and has been used b...

Discovery of a molecular switch that turns off the natural process of skin pigmentation may lead to a novel way of protecting the skin -- activating the tanning process without exposure to cancer-causing UV radiation. ...

The size of a cell's nucleus varies from one species to another, in different cell types and at different stages of development, and even with disease: many cancer cells develop larger nuclei as they become more malignant. Working with the African clawed...

Researchers identify gene that regulates apoptosis in stem cells. The work is the first to connect the death of stem cells to a later susceptibility to tumors in mice. It provides evidence of the potentially carcinogenic downside to stem cell treatments,...

A new material similar to that used by the US military to treat traumatic injuries is showing promise as the next novel treatment for bleeding ulcers, a condition that commonly affects up to 15 percent of adults, according to Hong Kong physician Dr. Jame...

Investigators from the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine have reported that African-American women who consume more vegetables are less likely to develop estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer than women with low vegetab...

A redesigned version of the CTC-Chip -- a microchip-based device for capturing rare circulating tumor cells -- appears to be more effective and should be easier to manufacture than the original. Called the HB-(herringbone) Chip, the new device also may p...

Having a family history of breast cancer can lead some women to wonder if the risk is out of their control. However, a study of more than 85,000 postmenopausal women, published in BioMed Central's open-access journal Breast Cancer Research, observed that...

Having a family history of breast cancer can lead some people to wonder if their risk is out of their control. However, a study of more than 85,000 postmenopausal women observed that regular physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight, and drinking l...

More than 50 percent of adults in the United States test positive for human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection. For most people, infection produces no symptoms and results in the virus persisting in the body for a long time. New research in mice now sugges...

This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, October 11, 2010, in the JCI: Intriguing viral link to intestinal cancer in mice; Breathing kept in rhythm by the protein ...

Health care in the last six months of life has become progressively more expensive for patients with heart failure both among Medicare beneficiaries in the United States and older adults in Canada, with a high rate of hospitalizations in the final six mo...