Forty percent of the 12 million people diagnosed with cancer worldwide each year could avert the killer disease by protecting themselves against infections and changing their lifestyles, experts said Tuesday.
A report by the Geneva-based International Union Against Cancer (UICC) highlighted nine infections that can lead to cancer and urged health officials to drive home the [...]

Recent media stories have reported isolated cases of cancer patients who were injured by incorrect doses from intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).
Despite such reports, IMRT remains one the most powerful cancer treatments, and extensive safety measures can ensure patients receive the proper doses, said radiation oncologist Dr. Kevin Albuquerque of Loyola University Health System.
IMRT uses computer-controlled [...]

Many human tumors express indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an enzyme which mediates an immune-escape in several cancer types. Researchers in the Molecular Modeling group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and Dr. Benoît J. Van den Eynde’s group at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd (LICR) Brussels Branch developed an approach for creating new [...]