Hope For Advanced Thymic Cancer Patients: New International Study Targets Rare Cancer

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare are testing a new drug specifically for thymic cancer based on early promising results at Scottsdale Healthcare. PHA-848125ac is produced by Nerviano Medical Sciences of Milan, Italy's largest pharmaceutical research and development facility. It is designed to stop ...

What Is Vulvar Cancer? What Causes Vulvar Cancer?

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Vulvar cancer, or vulval cancer is an uncommon cancer of the outer surface area of the female genitalia. The symptoms of vulvar cancer include pain, itching and bleeding of the vulva. The vulva is made up of the outer part of the vagina, the clitoris, and two ...

Opiate Painkillers May Encourage Spread Of Cancer

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

New research from the US adds weight to the growing body of evidence that opiate-based painkillers like morphine, which has been used to treat postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two hundred years, encourage cancer cells to grow and spread. If confirmed with clinical studies, these findings ...