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It is still not known if the child is doing better after her diagnosis started (Photo: AFP)

Child diagnosed with nasal cancer after doctors dismiss runny nose as...

Scans found a tumour in her nasal cavity which had invaded the bone in her nose along with her skull and muscles used...

16 Oct 2018 1:58 PM

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Sugar supplement mannose may help fight cancer: Study

Study found dosage of mannose could block enough glucose to slow tumour growth in mice, but not so much that normal...

23 Nov 2018 10:49 AM

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Tumour immune cells can aid cancer therapies: Study

It could help identify which tumours are likely to respond to a particular therapy.

8 Nov 2018 8:50 AM

When he was supposed to move aside he spotted a mass in the pelvis and declared an emergency (Photo: AFP)

Doctor removes woman's kidney during surgery after mistaking it for a...

The reason for this was that Dr Vasquez hadn't seen scans that showed Pacheco as having a pelvic kidney due to a birth...

2 Nov 2018 7:22 AM

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Butter, sausages may cause tumours to form 100 times faster

Here is what a new study has found.

26 Jan 2018 1:08 PM

Studies should examine parallel biological pathways linking depression to cancer survival. (Photo: Pixabay)

Researchers say flu virus could be used to treat pancreatic cancer

Study says modified form of common flu virus will hunt down and attack pancreatic cancer tumours but leave healthy cells...

25 Jan 2018 4:48 AM

This could possibly cause cancer to metastasize, or spread, even before a tumour has developed. (Photo: Pixabay)

Immune cells linked to very early spread of breast cancer

Future work will involve identifying the type of macrophages involved in early dissemination and exactly how the process...

3 Jan 2018 5:52 AM

For tumours to grow and spread, cancer cells must make larger than normal amounts of nucleic acids and protein, so they can multiply. (Photo: Pixabay)

Cancer overrides body clock to survive: study

Cancer cells alter the body clock to boost tumour growth.

1 Jan 2018 5:17 AM

Chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells, but they also affect the vasculature inside the tumour. (Photo: Pixabay)

Here's a protein that helps in cancer growth

Researchers at the University of Illinois have been able to study precisely how Ras proteins interact with cell membrane...

21 Feb 2018 4:34 AM

Humans need the chemical element selenium for good health. (Photo: Pixabay)

New molecule that can fight cancer identified

Selenium intake has long been connected with cancer, although the correlation between selenium and cancer growth is...

15 Feb 2018 6:31 AM

For tumours to grow and spread, cancer cells must make larger than normal amounts of nucleic acids and protein, so they can multiply. (Photo: Pixabay)

Doctors create way to kill liver cancer cells

According to researchers at the University of Delaware, this research could accelerate the development of new treatments...

8 Feb 2018 2:47 AM

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High levels of cellphone radiation linked to tumours in male rats

The concern with this type of radiation is that it produces energy in the form of heat.

4 Feb 2018 11:03 AM