The latest in Cancer Research News

• The Smithsonian.com recently reported on the discovery of the oldest cancer case in Central America. The bones of the young teen, who died 700 years ago, were excavated in the province of Bocas Del Toro in Panama in 1970.  Recently, a bioarchaeologist and a postdoctoral fellow took a closer look at the bones and noticed a lumpy calcified mass.  See the featured story here.
• Researchers at the Australian National University are working on a new treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) that outperforms standard chemotherapies. The compound under observation is CX-546. The full report has been published in the journal Blood.
• A study conducted by researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas concludes that human missions to Mars poses a risk of cancer to astronauts exposed to cosmic rays. Read more on their findings in Scientific Reports.
• New research coming out of Ohio State University found that changes among proteins that relay information from one immune cell to another are weakened in the blood of brain cancer patients within five years before the cancer is diagnosed. That information could one day lead to earlier diagnosis of brain cancer. Read more about this in ScienceDaily.