Posts by: Alice Melao

The presence of immune cells within tumors can predict how well cancer patients are likely to fare, according to a recent study. Researchers at New Zealand’s University of Otagov found that ... Read more

February 14, 2017

Study Shows Link Between Smoking, Higher Death Risk for Colon Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery

Colon cancer patients who smoked at the time of diagnosis were more likely to die of cancer within five years than patients who never smoked, according to the results of ... Read more

January 19, 2017

‘Collateral Lethality’ Offers New Therapeutic Target for Colon, Other Cancers

During the transformation of cells into a malignant cancerous form, some tumor suppressor genes that are responsible for blocking this process are deleted. At times, this genomic editing process can also ... Read more