Anne Li 1/29/17 NCI recently released The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control, the latest in a series of monographs on tobacco use and tobacco control. Produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization, the…...
Anne Li 1/29/17 The National Cancer Institute (NCI) today launched a new drug formulary (the “NCI Formulary”) that will enable investigators at NCI-designated Cancer Centers to have quicker access to approved and investigational agents for use in…...
Anne Li 1/15/17 Estrogen is an important female hormone that signals the breasts to form during puberty. It's a necessity for normal mammary gland development. Yet, in some cases, the hormone also…...
Anne Li 1/15/17 The type of cancer a person has – and how it gets treated – is no longer just about where in the body the cancer started, such as in the breast…...
Anne Li 1/15/17 New research published by Worldwide Cancer Research scientist Professor Adrian Whitehouse and his team points to a potential new way to prevent the rare cancer Kaposi’s sarcoma. Their work is published in…...
Anne LI 1/15/17 A study partly funded by UK charity Worldwide Cancer Research and headed by Professor Salvador Aznar Benitah, at the Institute for Research in Barcelona (IRB) have identified for the first time a specific…...
Anne Li 1/15/17 A drug most commonly used to treat depression may also reduce joint pain in some women being treated for early-stage breast cancer, according to the results of a randomized clinical…...
Anne Li 1/15/17 The National Cancer Institute (NCI) today launched a new drug formulary (the “NCI Formulary”) that will enable investigators at NCI-designated Cancer Centers to have quicker access to approved and investigational agents for use in preclinical…...
Anne Li 1/15/17 The targeted cancer therapy ibrutinib (Imbruvica®) can effectively treat a common and serious complication of a type of stem cell transplant, findings from a small clinical trial show. Patients in the trial had blood…...
Anne Li 1/15/17 Scientists have uncovered how tumours are able to grow despite significant damage to the structure and number of their chromosomes – the storage units of DNA – according to two new…...