health - "cancer"

A gene difference in up to a third of patients with colorectal cancer could help solve how it passes between generations, scientists say.

Britons aren't as scared of cancer as they were generations ago when the C-word was a great unmentionable.

About one-third of colorectal cancers are inherited, but the genetic cause of most of these cancers is unknown. The genes linked to colorectal cancer account for less than 5 percent of all cases.

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Tumorigenic Effect of Some Commonly Used Moisturizing Creams when Applied Topically to UVB-Pretreated High-Risk Mice.Irradiation of SKH-1 mice with UVB (30 mJ cm-2) twice a week for 20 weeks resulted in mice with a high risk of developing skin tumors over the next several months in the absence of further irradiation with UVB (high-risk mice).read more

A novel gene signaling mechanism that controls whether a stem cell develops into its destined tissue or fails to differentiate and becomes cancer has been identified by researchers in the multi-laboratory Molecular and Structural Neurobiology and Gene Therapy Program based at the University at Buffalo.

Four commonly used moisturizers -- Dermabase, Dermovan, Eucerin, and Vanicream -- increased skin cancers in mice previously exposed to UV radiation.

IT'S not hard to get a girl to slip into an Alex Perry dress in the name of a good cause.

Infection with hepatitis B virus causes liver cancer in some individuals, but not all strains of the virus are associated with the same degree of risk.

Some people whose cancer had spread to different parts of the body had their tumours eradicated by precisely targeted radiation, say researchers who tested the therapy.