Doctors have successfully saved the life of an advanced skin cancer patient by treating him with clones of his own immune cells. The 52-year-old man from a small town in Oregon was declared free of melanoma two years after treatment.

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who treated the dying patient extracted white blood cells, the key component of the immune system, and grew the infection-fighting T cells in the laboratory. The cloned T cells, which had been vastly expanded, were then reinfused to the patient to fight the cancer

Inadequate exposure to the sun, the main source of Vitamin D, was linked by a Mount Sinai Hospital study to breast cancer. Data used by researchers included a study on 512 Canadian women with an average age of 50 undergoing breast cancer treatment at three University of Toronto hospitals from 1989 to 1995.

Findings showed that 94 percent of women had higher chances of having breast cancer if they lacked sufficient exposure to sunshine. But getting Vitamin D is linked with geography. In cold countries like Canada, the strong ultraviolet rays from the sun is only available on certain months

new virus called Merkel cell polyomavirus or MCV, which is linked to a rare but lethal type of skin cancer, has been discovered by an American researcher. MCV, according to a study by the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute published Thursday, is the first virus to be associated with a specific type of cancer.

The cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), mainly affects people with weak immune systems including AIDS patients and those who recently underwent transplant procedures. Nearly 1,500 cases of Merkel cancer are reported annually. Around 50 percent of the patients with advanced stages of the cancer survive for nine months only

Broccoli sprouts contain a chemical which stimulates the body's natural cancer fighting ability and may help prevent cancer when applied directly to the skin, a new research shows.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University who worked on the study say broccoli contains a chemical called sulphoraphane which activates cancer fighting enzymes in the cells. The highest concentration of sulphoraphane is to be found in broccoli sprouts

Good news for women and people who love them: breast cancer has claimed less American lives every year since 1990, according to new report from the American Cancer Society.

"While many women live in fear of breast cancer, this report shows a woman today has a lower chance of dying from breast cancer than she's had in decades," said Harmon J. Eyre, M.D., chief medical officer of the ACS