Mar 18 Watch 5:00 Study raises questions about value of breast cancer biopsies By PBS News Hour Breast biopsies are good for accurately diagnosing invasive cancerous cells, but are less accurate when it comes to finding other abnormalities, according to a new study. This means many women may receive unnecessarily aggressive treatment. Hari Sreenivasan learns more about… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch 8:43 Experimental therapy trains immune cells to hunt and kill blood cancers By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 17 Resource guide: Penn researchers use body’s immune system to target leukemia By Cat Wise Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are researching a promising therapy in which the body’s immune system is turned into a cancer-fighting weapon. Continue reading
Mar 09 Sam Simon, co-developer of ‘The Simpsons,’ dies at 59 By Justin Scuiletti Sam Simon, a television producer and writer who also co-developed the long-running series "The Simpsons", died on Sunday at the age of 59. Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch 4:03 New cancer treatments target disease-causing mutations By PBS News Hour Some cutting-edge research is giving new hope to cancer patients. Researchers are zeroing in on the causes of specific cancers and are finding dramatically different ways to fight the disease. To explain the latest findings, Dr. David Hyman from the… Continue watching
Feb 19 Chemical used to color sodas linked to cancer risk By Anna Sillers The brown coloring in your soda may be linked to increased cancer risk, according to a new study. Continue reading
Jan 28 How playing with dangerous x-rays led to the discovery of radiation treatment for cancer By Dr. Howard Markel When the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s announced his discovery of the x-ray in December of 1895, he was lauded on the front page of just about every newspaper in the world. Indeed, many journalists called this phenomenon “X-Ray… Continue reading
Jan 02 Watch 4:11 Luck, not lifestyle, may be to blame for more cancers than previously thought By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 02 Bad luck, not genes or the environment, cause for many cancers, researchers find By Margaret Myers, Jason Kane Sometimes there just isn’t a good explanation for a cancer diagnosis other than random bad luck. That’s what researchers at Johns Hopkins have found. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, oncologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein and biomathematician Cristian… Continue reading
Nov 07 Scientists create immortal human cells to understand how cancer works By Colleen Shalby Until now, the science behind cell immortality has been relatively unknown, despite its significance to cancer. But the Cell Cycle journal recently reported that researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new way… Continue reading