The latest cancer news and updates from around the world.
On World Cancer Day, February 4th, the international cancer community united to send a clear message: we must act now to prevent, detect, and treat cancer. To empower individuals and communities, Global Oncology and 1,472 advocates came together under the slogan “I Can. We Can.” This rallying cal...
Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, pictured here during a TED presentation Thursday in Rochester, MN, is chair of Neurologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic complex in Jacksonville, Fl. His journey from undocumented migrant worker to Harvard graduate and brain surgeon is being made into a movie. (Cour...
Yanin Chávarri Guerra, MD, MSc, of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, in Mexico, was the principal investigator of a study funded by a 2015 International Innovation Grant. Mexican women with breast cancer present with more advanced stages of the disease t...
Mexico’s COFEPRIS health authority has authorized the use of an early-stage prostate cancer drug and laser therapy developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, (about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tel Aviv) in collaboration with Luxembourg’s Steba Biotech. http://www.they...