Cancer Fight Goes Nuclear, With Heavy Price Tag
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A push by medical centers to turn nuclear particle accelerators into weapons against cancer reflects the best and worst of Americaâs health system, experts say.
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Rising rates of cancer diagnosis will increase the strain on European health care systems,  experts warn.
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Politicians are pushing an idea to fight high health costs by shielding employers from the most expensive medical cases.
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Uninsured cancer patients are nearly twice as likely to die within five years as those with private coverage, according to the first national study of its kind and one that sheds light on troubling health care obstacles.
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Cancer is killing millions in Europe - and more must be done to prevent its most common forms, experts warn.
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Immune cells taken from one person may be able to join the battle against cancer in another, says a researcher.
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People facing the prospect of cancer treatment typically expect to suffer numerous side effects -- often more than is actually likely -- a study suggests.
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A debate over a hypothesis that cancers are fed by cancerous stem cells could affect the path of research.
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US cancer specialists issued an urgent appeal this weekend for more budget allocations for cancer research, which have been decreasing in the country for four years threatening to delay introduction of new treatments.
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Given the enormous physical, emotional and financial toll of cancer, one might expect researchers to promote the free and open exchange of information. They donât.
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Rapidly growing number of cancer patients may in fact be the Chernobyl&#39;s aftereffect, scientists claim. A new study suggests more than 800 people in northern Sweden developed cancer as a result of the radioactive
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Does access to fuel ease nations toward nuclear weapons? Rising demand has nonproliferation experts unsettled.
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The Canadian government is rushing through legislation to reopen a nuclear reactor that produces most of the worldâs supply of a medically important diagnostic isotope.
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WASHINGTON  - The US government will spend a whopping 144.3 million dollars to apply nanotechnology to the fight against cancer, the National Cancer Institute (news - web sites) announced.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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Some critics question proposed federal spending hikes for nuclear research.
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The need to reduce carbon emissions has even environmentalists rethinking nuclear energy, but high costs could prove a deal-breaker.