New Early Stage Ovarian Cancer Test: 99 Percent Accurate?

A blood test that has enough sensitivity and specificity to detect early stage ovarian cancer (cancer of the ovary) with 99 percent accuracy has been developed by Yale School of Medicine...

Breast Cancer Tests and Patients

What if you submitted yourself to various cancer tests and you are asked to undergo the same thing again because the hospital screwed up the samples? I bet you’ll be angry! I will be too. Like what...

Your Morning Gargle Can Be Used to Accurately Detect Head and Neck Cancer

Such were the findings of scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center who were able to capture genetic signatures common to head and neck cancer. The researchers collected the rinsed...

Cryoablation for Pain Management?

While cryoablation is working wonders in kidney cancer patients will unoperable tumors, the procedure has been found to offer durable pain relief of cancer that has spread to the bone – according to...

New Biomarker Osteopontin-c, Possible Early Predictor of Advanced Breast Cancer

A more accurate biomarker - osteopontin-c - has been identified by researchers  at University of Cincinnati that will predict if breast cancers will develop into an advanced form. Currently,...