Run-up to Ottawa: Plastic may contribute to aggressive cancer spread, warns leading cancer scientist

New research comes ahead of INC-4 negotiations in Canada over Global Plastics Treaty

Antioxidants can accelerate tumour growth, suggests study

The chemicals inactivate a protein that works as tumour suppressor and prevents cancer

Study opens new avenue for preventing cancer

Scientists have found a way to stop the degradation of a protein called p53 that prevents cancer cells from proliferating and forming tumors

Scientists look to mathematics to make cancer treatment more effective

The model-based treatment protocols will be based on accurate calculations, thus avoiding the preventable and uncomfortable side-effects of …

Researchers decode why brain tumours are hard to treat

Cancer cells essentially get integrated into the brain’s neural network and flourish with the help of structures that neurons use to …

New method for controlled release makes cancer drugs less toxic to healthy tissues

This is a hydrogel-based treatment method releases drugs slowly increasing its efficiency

An implantable device, smaller than a rice grain, can shrink pancreatic tumours

Pancreatic cancer one of the most difficult to treat; device can deliver immunotherapy at low doses for a long time

In a first, scientists turn cancer cells into fat in mice

Study, which ‘stopped’ cancer metastasis in mice, holds big implications for future research and treatments

How cancer cells move and metastasize is influenced by the fluids surrounding them

Fluid between cancer cells in tumors is more viscous than the fluid between normal cells in healthy tissues

Malady to miracle: Leprosy bacteria grows liver in armadillos, gives hope for human organ regeneration

Study finds bacteria of the chronic infectious disease reprogrammed certain cells into ‘stem-like cells’

Cancer growth in the body could originate from a single cell – target it to revolutionise treatment

Researchers identify and isolate cells within different cancerous growths, called the “cell of origin”

Exercising could help fight cancer, says study

Physical activity boosts flow of drugs to the tumour, making chemotherapy more effective