New research shows that a new cancer vaccine may be effective for treating a range of HER2-positive cancers, including the more aggressive HER2-positive breast cancer. In HER2’s role as a growth factor, normal levels of it help regulate the growth of cells. That being said, excess amounts of the protein help cancer cells multiply and […]
Smoking wreaks genetic damage to different organs of the body and causes mutations in the DNA. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as King’s College London, said that on average, smokers accumulate at least 150 extra mutations in every lung cell for each year that they […]