The scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle) managed to transplant their own genetically modified blood stem cells to patients suffering from brain cancer. This is the first attempt to protect human bone marrow from the toxic side effects of chemotherapy. As a result of this operation, two patients with glioblastoma (an incurable disease) who ... Full story

According to Newscientist, there has been created a new drug called cabozantinib or cabo. The company that produced it is Exelixis. The medicine can be called a revolutionary one because it not only blocks tumor growth, but prevents the spread of metastases as well. Full story

The scientists from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) were the first to discover the presence in food of hazardous substances, called aldehydes and associated with neurodegenerative diseases and some cancers. Full story

A new method for analyzing blood is twice more sensitive, and it can be used to detect breast cancer backset a year earlier. Full story

Only 50 grams of processed meat in the daily diet increases the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19%. If a person eats much processed food, the risk is greatly increased. Full story

A synthetic analogue of hunger hormone - ghrelin - can help overcome the problem of lack of appetite in cancer patients. Full story