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Inspired by Sister’s Death, Girl Helps Young Brain Tumor Patients Make Films
Angelight Films is a non-profit production company that gives children with brain and spinal cord tumors the opportunity to express themselves by creating and...
Seaweed Extract Outperforms Chemo Drug in Shrinking Breast Tumors
The extract of an edible red seaweed was found to be 27 percent more effective than standard chemo in shrinking breast tumors in rats...
Pioneering Breast Cancer Treatment Freezes Tumors, Killing Harmful Tissue
Surgery may soon be a thing of the past for breast cancer patients, thanks to a new technique that destroys tumors by freezing them.
A...
Twin-Tuition: Man’s Sixth Sense Helps Find Brain Tumor in Brother
When an Australian identical twin with persistent headaches got an MRI scan, nothing unusual was found. But he had a notion that his brother...
New Cancer Treatment Destroys Non Targeted Tumors Using Immune System
For more than a century, scientists have been attempting to harness the immune system to fight cancer -- trying to get the antibodies and...
Man With 10 Brain Tumors Gets Cancer Treatment Paid By Good Samaritan
The family of a British man with 10 brain tumours say their prayers have been answered after a generous stranger agreed to pay for...
Tumor-Attacking Virus: A Promising Cancer Treatment
An experimental, made-in-Ottawa virus that attacks tumors has been shown to be a safe and potentially useful drug against hard-to-treat cancers, justifying further trials...
First Time Ever, Stem Cells Trained on Deadliest Brain Tumor
In a pioneering experiment, a California woman became the first person to have embryonic stem cells injected into her brain to try and cure...
Tumors Stalled in Women with Advanced Breast Cancer
A new drug stalls the growth of tumors in women with advanced breast cancer. Testing was stopped after noting the drug's effectiveness, so that...
Healing on Her Mind; Surviving a Brain Tumor
As Cheryl Clark began a weekend horseback ride one sunny October afternoon in 1997, a time bomb went off. A violent seizure threw the...
A Brain Tumor, the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
It appeared suddenly. Blackness blotted out my vision. A moment before, I'd focused on the cards that I held. Now I was blind. Then--like...
Hope for Patients with Aggressive Breast Cancer: Vaccine Trial Results in 88% Survival Rate After 3 Years
Breast cancer patients have been given fresh hope after a new vaccine showed "promise" in treating an aggressive form of the disease.
The results came...
Man Labeled ‘Brain Dead’ May Be First to Recover from Extreme Locked-in Syndrome
A man labeled "brain dead" has become the first ever to recover from an extreme form of locked-in syndrome, which paralyzed him so completely...
Study Raises Hopes of Treating Aggressive Cancers by Identifying Fragments of Rogue DNA
A breakthrough in understanding how and why some cancer tumors are particularly aggressive and non-responsive to treatments has placed blame on breakaway strands of...
Good News in History, October 22
49 years ago today, Venera 9, the Soviet Union orbiter-lander spacecraft, became the first mission to enter orbit around Venus, and to return images...
The Medicinal Value of Chaga Mushrooms as a Nutraceutical for Good Health
In an updated review of the medicinal value of the Siberian native fungus called chaga, international researchers underscored the almost unbelievable value of this...
New Cervical Cancer Treatment Regime Shows ‘Biggest Gain in Survival Since 1999’
Targeting the fourth most common cancer in women globally, a new treatment regime combining chemo and chemoradiation therapy has reduced the rates of death...
Chinese Couple Created ‘Cancer Kitchen’ in Their Alley to Let Family Members Cook for Loved Ones in Nearby Hospital
In the city of Nanchang, in an alleyway near a cancer hospital, two senior citizens run a "community cancer kitchen" to support those caring...
Mystery of Nazca Lines Deepens as AI Survey Doubles Number of Geoglyphs and Alters Their Meaning
It took nearly a century to locate the 430 geoglyphs hidden in the Nazca Desert of Peru, but archaeologists surveying almost the entire region...
Watch This Mushroom Propel a Robot Across the Ground—We’re Not Joking
There's no question that when most people think of robotics, they imagine a field of metal, mechanisms, and wires.
Yet today, in the growing field...