The reported mortality rate for this cancer in the United States is 2.5 per 100,000 women, but some countries in Latin America is ten times higher, experts say

The registration of 30,000 deaths per year in Latin America for cervical cancer, caused by human papilloma virus, can bend if not covered by the vaccine to prevent it, said an expert from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Read the rest of this entry »

Tamoxifen is a substance with which it treats the sick of this type of cancer and prevent recurrence of the disease

The Spanish scientist Antoni Hurtado, Institute of Cancer Research in Cambridge (UK) has discovered the mechanism of resistance to tamoxifen in breast cancer cells, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers explain that they released enough vesicles for that cross the blood brain barrier and can be detected with a common analysis

Glioblastoma cells, one of the most aggressive brain tumors, they release some microvesicles that could be detected with a simple blood test, which would facilitate the diagnosis of cancer, until now very complicated. Read the rest of this entry »

The cancer patients receive psychological treatment and live longer, according to a study by Ohio State University (USA). The authors note that the chances of dying decreased by 44%.

While experts have become increasingly clear that psychological care to help cancer patients, the debate about whether these interventions affect survival is far from closed. Read the rest of this entry »

Reward may help scientists develop treatments and techniques for early detection of disease

Scientists at The University of Nottingham (England) have discovered a gene that protects lung cancer, one of the most common and deadly because of delayed diagnosis. Read the rest of this entry »

Cancer will become the leading cause of death worldwide in 2010 due to increase in developing countries, especially where the snuff will wreak havoc in an increasingly sedentary population, the UN said.

“I can not describe the feeling when I said you have cancer,” recalled Bill Gregory, who was diagnosed with throat cancer two years ago in Atlanta (USA). Read the rest of this entry »