Worldwide Cancer Research-funded scientists in Brisbane, Australia have found a way to grow human bone ‘organs’ in mice to improve the study of cancer spread (metastasis) to the bone. The study, published in the journal Nature Protocols, could help researchers to better understand the biology th...

A study partly funded by UK charity Worldwide Cancer Research and headed by Professor Salvador Aznar Benitah, at the Institute for Research in Barcelona (IRB) have identified for the first time a specific protein called CD36 on cancer cells which have the ability to metastasize (spread). CD36, foun...

Obesity and cancer is in the news again. Two major reports linking obesity to cancer have appeared in the last month, and they make for scary reading. One report says excess weight could bring an increased risk of developing up to 13 different types of cancer, while the other suggests the longer you...