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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) formally issued letters to all members of the House of Representatives and the Senate urging them to oppose recently introduced legislation that would exempt many cigars from...

Smokers of both genders had increased risk for colon cancer compared with never-smokers. The risk increase was greater for female smokers. The more and longer a woman smoked, the greater her risk. PHILADELPHIA — Smoking increased the risk for developing...

Professor Roger Kamm at MIT was my advisor when I was a mechanical engineering student at MIT. Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, and his doctoral student Ioannis Zervantonakis are studying the mechanics of metastasis. They are using a 3-D microfluidic device developed in his lab, including a recent study on the effect of flow on tumor-cell migration. Read more here . Read More...

This is a guest post by William Blackhurst, MD Have you ever heard of Tomotherapy treatment? This is a treatment designed for radiation therapy of various cancers. Its name comes from the Greek root for slice. Basically it combines a CT or other type of scan with radiation therapy in such a way that the radiation dose can be altered to match the thickness of the tumor in a given image slice. Tomotherapy is both intensity modulated and image guided. Intensity modulated radiotherapy or IMRT uses devices called collimators to adjust the amount of radiation delivered in a single dose. Image guided...