Abiraterone, an experimental cancer drug under trial, has potential for shrinking prostate tumors at a fast rate and giving cancer patients double the chance of survival in 70 to 80 percent of patients with aggressive cancers.

The study has a small trial sample of 21 patients, although the medication was first tested in over 250 men with similar positive results

The risk of young women getting melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, increased over the last 25 years and researchers blame it on the growing trend of tanning.

A team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health looked at data from women aged 15 to 39 from a network of cancer registries across the U.S. in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program from 1973 to 2004

Cuban health authorities have approved the use of what is believed to be the world's first registered therapeutic lung cancer vaccine.

Unlike chemotherapy, the prevalent treatment for cancer, the new vaccine CimaVax EGF has no side effects. Though the vaccine does not prevent lung cancer, it has been shown to boost survival rates by an average of four to five months, and in some cases much longer

Using laser light to destroy cancer cells has been found to be safer in treating throat cancers than surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Dr. H. Steven Sims, assistant professor of otolaryngology and director of University of Illinois-Chicago's Chicago Institute for Voice Care, used photodynamic therapy to completely removed the cancer from around the vocal folds of patient Sammie Bush without affecting his voice. The procedure was done on May 15

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent a successful surgery on Monday to treat his cancerous brain tumor, doctors at Duke University Medical Center here said.

Dr. Allan Friedman, the top neurosurgeon at Duke, removed the tumor, while weighing the risk of harming healthy brain tissue that affects movement and speech