Washington, January 17: An autonomous institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore has announced the discovery of a human protein called Bax-beta (Baxa), which can potentially cause the death of cancer cells and lead to new approaches in cancer treatment.

London, Jan 12: Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Centre have identified a series of gene fusions that might one day serve as a marker for detecting cancer.

Recurrent gene fusions are believed to be the mechanism that leads to cancer development.

The research team claim that they have discovered several gene fusions in prostate cancer cells.

These fusions occur when chromosomes, the packages of DNA that contain genes, switch places with each other.

Washington, Jan 8 : Researchers at the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center have revealed that a component of black raspberries can effectively help in cancer prevention.

They found that anthocyanins, a class of flavonoids in black raspberries, inhibited growth and stimulated apoptosis in the esophagus of rats treated with an esophageal carcinogen.

Washington, Jan 8 : A new study has shown that hormone replacement therapy can significantly reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women.

The researchers found that women who had completed use of estrogen plus progestin five or more years previously were 45 pct less likely to develop colorectal cancer

London, Jan 8: Patients treated for melanoma are more than twice as likely to develop other, unrelated cancers than the general population, a new research suggests.

According to the research, which was led by Queen''s University Belfast, the risk was also elevated - although not as much - for patients with other forms of skin cancer.

The study has been published in the British Journal of Cancer.

Washington, Jan 6: A new study from University of Wurzburg in Germany has found vital clues that may lead to development of new treatments for aggressive childhood cancer.

Previous studies have shown that amplification of the MYCN gene, which disrupts control of cell division and differentiation, is a strong predictor of poor prognosis in neuroblastoma, the most common cancer in young children.

Washington, Jan 1 : Researchers claim to have identified the reason why prostate cancer patients fail hormone deprivation therapy.

Prostate cancer cells rely on androgens, male hormones that include testosterone, to survive and grow.

This hormone deprivation therapy causes tumours to shrink, however, it''s never a cure. They tumours eventually regrow into a stronger form, becoming resistant to treatment.

London, Dec 31: If you're frying a steak and are mindful of your wellbeing, then marinate it in either red wine or beer, for the alcoholic beverages dramatically reduce levels of chemicals that can cause cancer, according to a new study.

Researchers found that steeping the meat in alcohol for several hours cut the high levels of carcinogenic compounds triggered by frying it.

Washington, Dec 18: Extra-virgin olive oil contains health-relevant chemicals, ''phytochemicals'', that can trigger cancer cell death, says a new research.

The study published in the open access journal BMC Cancer sheds more light on the suspected association between olive oil-rich Mediterranean diets and reductions in breast cancer risk.

Washington, December 15: Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that they have created nano-scale carbon tubes that can act like a sensor to detect cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.

The researchers say that such sensors can prove helpful in detecting chemotherapy drugs as well as environmental toxins and free radicals that damage DNA.