A new tool will help researchers identify the minute changes in DNA patterns that lead to cancer, Huntington's disease and a host of other genetic disorders. The tool was developed at North Carolina State University and translates DNA sequences into graphic images, which allows researchers to distinguish genetic patterns more quickly and efficiently than was historically possible using computers.

A research team at Northwestern University has demonstrated a new tool for cancer treatment. It can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells. It could be a tool for next-generation cancer treatments.

In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have developed an efficient system for delivering siRNA into primary cells. The work on Personalized Cancer treatment new way will be published in the May 17 in the advance on-line edition of Nature Biotechnology.

NBC sent out a press release Saturday about a major ratings score on Friday night. As Friday is known as the "dead zone" of the TV viewing week, it was quite remarkable, but it was all about Farrah Fawcett, her story, her life, and her impending death.

The Farrah Fawcett poster pictured with the story is opne of the iconic images of the 70's. Yet as this former Charlie's Angel approaches death due to terminal anal cancer, she still took the time, bravely, to air her own story on NBC tonight.

Wayman Tisdale was a star basketball player in the NBA and at Oklahoma in college, but he was also an accomplished musician and many would say "a class act." He died Friday morning after a long struggle with cancer, at 44.

On Friday, May 15th, NBC News will air Farrah's Story, a two-hour special chronicling actress Farrah Fawcett's battle against anal cancer, from 9-11 p.m. EDT. Billed as "an extremely personal look at her battle with cancer," the show will be narrated by Fawcett herself.

People who live in urban areas are more likely to develop late-stage cancer than those who live in suburban and rural areas. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the June 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results indicate a need for more effective urban-based late-stage cancer screening and awareness programs.

Nearly one-third of cancer studies published in high-impact journals disclosed a conflict of interest, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smoking tobacco, according to new results reported this week at the European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic Oncology (EMCTO), Lugano, Switzerland.

Survival rates for cancer are continuing to rise even though the number of cases being diagnosed is increasing, an all-Ireland report launched today reveals.

A protein called Mcl-1 plays a critical role in melanoma cell resistance to a form of apoptosis called anoikis, according to research published this week in Molecular Cancer Research.