Drug ‘attacks cancer stem cells’
A compound that appears to target the master cells which help breast cancers grow and spread has been discovered by US scientists.
In tests in mice, salinomycin killed breast cancer stem cells far more effectively than some existing drugs, and slowed tumour growth.
The drug, a farm antibiotic, has yet to be tested [...]

Blood Type May Boost Pancreatic Cancer Risk
Common variants of a gene that determines blood type are associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, according to U.S. researchers.
They studied the genomes of more than 4,300 pancreatic cancer patients and more than 4,500 people without the disease. This analysis found that people with variants of the [...]