This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

Halassy self-administered a treatment called oncolytic virotherapy (OVT) to help treat her own stage 3 cancer. She has now been cancer-free for four...

Scientists inhibit tumour growth by starving cancer cells glucose & glutamine.

Researchers describe the discovery of a new, high-potency molecule that blocked several varieties of the glucose transport protein. ...

Honeybee venom 'kills some breast cancer cells'

Australian scientists say the venom from honeybees has been found to destroy aggressive breast cancer cells in a lab setting....

Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers

MYC is the protein responsible for making many cancer cases worse. Researchers have found a way to rein it in....

New lung cancer drug (lorlatinib) shockingly effective

Doctors are hailing “off the chart” trial results that show a new drug stopped lung cancer advancing for longer than any other treatment in...

mRNA Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Initial Trial

In a recent early-stage trial, half of pancreatic cancer patients who received a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine after surgery did not have a...

One-hour operation could cure prostate cancer by destroying tumours with electric currents

Prostate cancer could be cured with a "game-changing" one-hour operation that uses electric currents to destroy the most difficult to reach tumours....

New Treatment Succeeds with All Types of Bone Cancer

A new drug could help increase survival rates of more people with bone cancer, particularly children, said scientists. Researchers at the University...

Breast Cancer Vaccines are coming...

The search for a treatment may be coming to an end because researchers have made a promising breakthrough... It confirmed that the experimental jab...

What naked mole-rats can teach us about treating cancer

Naked mole-rats seem to defy ageing and appear immune to cancer. Scientists are studying these strange creatures to understand how humans can live...

This jumped out at me because I just saw the excellent / gross Naked Mole Rat exhibit at the Living Desert Zoo in Palm Springs, CA. https://www.livingdesert.org/animals/naked-mole-rat/ - TGR Editor

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

A teenage girl's incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine. Base editing allows...

FYI: Base editing is applied CRISPR-Cas9. See https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03536-x for more. - TGR Editor