A teacher with terminal cancer wanted to repaint his house for his wife. A dozen people came to help The 45-year-old teacher from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, started chemotherapy treatments when he was diagnosed last year, but in July doctors told him he had only months left to live. “I found out I was not […]

Blocking nuclear pore complex formation can help selectively kill cancer cells Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 28 2020 Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have shown that blocking the construction of nuclear pores complexes–large channels that control the flow of materials in and out of the cell nucleus–shrank aggressive tumors in mice while […]

New drug targeting DNA repair shows promise in range of advanced cancers A new precision drug which stops cancer from repairing its DNA has shown promise in an early-stage clinical trial – highlighting the potential of a new class of drugs known as ATR inhibitors. The drug candidate, tested in humans for the first time, […]

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — September is known as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Each day in the United States, 43 children are diagnosed with cancer, and one out of every eight newly diagnosed children will not survive the disease. According to Dr. Farah Sherani with Driscoll Children’s Hospital, pediatric cancer […]

Group gives local girl battling cancer a Disney Princess themed party [unable to retrieve full-text content] Chloe Booker has been battling Stage 4 neuroblastoma, a cancer that relapsed this year. She loves princesses, so a local group teamed up with …Published at Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:15:00 +0000

Childhood cancer awareness BY GRACE AUKA-SALMANG CHILDREN with cancer do exist and they must be brought to the hospital early to receive treatment, a cancer specialist at the Port Moresby general hospital says.There were quite a few at the paediatric cancer ward at the hospital, with different cancer conditions, but that did not stop them […]

Sarah Harding is all smiles in first social media video since revealing cancer diagnosis Sarah Harding has shared her first post since revealing her cancer battle (Picture: Snapchat/Getty) Sarah Harding has shared her first social media post since revealing she has cancer to fans, posing a light-hearted video on Snapchat.  The Girls Aloud star, 38, […]

Delayed cancer treatment in the time of COVID The COVID-19 pandemic has altered lives in many ways, but one of the most potentially perilous is through the delay in diagnostic testing and treatment for cancers. A survey by the American Cancer Society Action Network found that half of the respondents had experienced changes, delays or […]

Okanagan mother battling terminal cancer, hoping for help A mother living in the Okanagan with a life-ending illness is counting on donations from strangers to help her live longer.  “I got diagnosed in 2013 with cancer. I’ve been fighting that for a few years and the last few years it has metastasized,” said Michelle Nelson.  […]

A Mother’s Ambitious Goal to Raise $1 Million for Cancer Research September 25, 2020  |  Cancer and Blood Disorders, Philanthropy Author: Anna Altavas Post Comment Christine O’Connell knows the walls of Seattle Children’s all too well. In 2017, the O’Connell’s 3-year-old daughter Jane was diagnosed with stage IV Wilms, a pediatric kidney cancer. The cancer […]