One of the latest attempts to boost the body’s defenses against cancer is called adoptive cell transfer, in which patients receive a therapeutic injection of their own immune cells. Th... Read more
Image by EikeR via Flickr A common cause of cancer is when cells are altered or mutated and the body’s tumor suppressor genes are switched off. Scientists at the University of Nottingham hav... Read more
Gold nanoparticles, while showing great promise in fields such as electronics,medical imaging and cancer treatment, nonetheless involve a fairly environmentally-unfriendly production process... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) is a promising new cancer treatment that essentially “fries” cells inside tumors. The procedure has been used successfully i... Read more
We’ve heard of surgeons using a SpectroPen during tumor removal surgeries, but now Californian scientists are shedding light on cancer, literally, in the hopes of finding a new cure for skin... Read more
Although chemotherapy is an effective cancer treatment, it’s shotgun approach also damages healthy cells bringing debilitating side effects such as nausea, liver toxicity and a battered immu... Read more
One of the most promising applications in the emerging field of nanomedicine is cancer treatment. The ability to target individual cells provides safer and more effective treatment than curr... Read more