Cancer Treatment News

Engineers develop cancer-targeting nanoprobe sensors

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03 GMT

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created smart nanoprobes that may one day be used in the battle against cancer to selectively seek out and destroy tumour cells, as well as r

Leukaemia cells metabolise fat to avoid cell death

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03 GMT

Leukaemia cells, like most cancers, are addicted to glucose to generate their energy, but new research shows for the first time that these cells also rely on fatty acid metabolism to grow and to ev

Biochemical profile may help diagnose, determine aggressiveness of prostate cancer

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03 GMT

Magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy – which analyses the biochemistry rather than the structure of tissues – may someday be able both to pinpoint the precise location of prostate cancer a

First successful use of expanded umbilical-cord blood units to treat leukaemia

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03 GMT

Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have cleared a major technical hurdle to making umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used method for treating leukaemia and other blood c

Cells critical to cause and relapse of childhood leukaemia discovered

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03 GMT

Scientists at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne have discovered the cells that cause a common type of childhood leukaemia – T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL