Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK; affecting 250,000 men. Risk factors for prostate cancer include age (average age at diagnosis is 70), a family history and a Caribbean or...

Skin

What is Cancer?

  Cancer is not just one disease but many diseases. There are more than 100 different types of cancer. Most cancers are named for the organ or type of cell in which they start - for example,...

Eczema

Eczema is a common itchy skin disease characterized by reddening and vesicle formation, which may lead to weeping and crusting. It is endogenous, or constitutional. There are five main types; atopic...

Skin Integra

Killing Cancer Cells With Weed Plant Anti-Cancer Drug

A new anticancer drug made from a weed-like plant that grows naturally in the Mediterranean region has been shown to effectively destroy cancer cells in mice, according to a study published in the jou...

The Problem-Oriented Medical Record

By Leslie Kernisan, MD [This post is Part 2 of a commentary on “Medicine in Denial,”(2011) by Dr. Lawrence Weed and Lincoln Weed. You can read Part 1 here.] An excellent chapter in “Medicine in...

Skin cancer does not discriminate between skin colors

Do you have darker skin? If so, skin cancer might not be top of mind as a significant health threat, but beware – just because your skin is darker does not mean you are immune to skin cancer.

Drug from Mediterranean weed kills tumor cells in mice

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, working with Danish researchers, have developed a novel anticancer drug designed to travel -- undetected by n...

Tips for prevention and early detection of skin cancer

According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 82,770 Americans will be diagnosed this year with skin cancer, including melanoma. When left untreated, melanoma is the most dangerous and aggres...

How to check your skin for skin cancer

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States and finding spots that could be cancerous is as simple as looking at your skin. Now a new video, “Skin Self-Exam: How to Do,” from the Am...

New Video Demonstrates Skin Cancer Self-Exam

SATURDAY, Nov. 3 -- A new video that instructs people how to do a self-examination for skin cancer has been released by the American Academy of Dermatology. "Checking your skin for skin cancer only re...

Double the pain: RUB biologists find the cause of pain in the treatment of fair skin cancer

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Apply the ointment, light on, light off - that's how easy it is to cure various forms of non-melanoma skin cancer. However, the majority of patients suffer severe pain during...

Benchmark study on glyphosate-resistant cropping systems in the United States. Part 4: Weed management practices and effects on weed populations and soil seedbanks.

BACKGROUND: Weed management in glyphosate-resistant (GR) maize, cotton and soybean in the United States relies almost exclusively on glyphosate, which raises criticism for facilitating shifts in weed...

The speculator's bread: what is behind rising food prices?

An extended cure model and model selection.

We propose a novel interpretation for a recently proposed Box-Cox transformation cure model, which leads to a natural extension of the cure model. Based on the extended model, we consider an important...

Breeding Cereal Crops for Enhanced Weed Suppression: Optimizing Allelopathy and Competitive Ability.

Interest in breeding grain crops with improved weed suppressive ability is growing in response to the evolution and rapid expansion of herbicide resistant populations in major weeds of economic import...

Variable selection in semiparametric cure models based on penalized likelihood, with application to breast cancer clinical trials.

Survival data with a sizable cure fraction are commonly encountered in cancer research. The semiparametric proportional hazards cure model has been recently used to analyze such data. As seen in the a...