IKSAN, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The appearance of an otter, a sign of a healthy environment, served as welcome news on Thursday to the residents of the small village of Jangjeom in Iksan, North Jeolla Province. Jangjeom has been stigmatized as a ‘cancer village’ after a cluster of cancer patients emerged following the opening [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC San Diego have mapped out how hundreds of mutations involved in two types of cancer affect the activity of proteins that are the ultimate actors behind the disease. The work points the way to identifying new precision treatments that may skirt [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Cancer remained the top cause of death in South Korea, with the number of deaths hitting a record high last year, a government report showed Tuesday. In 2020, 304,948 deaths were reported in South Korea, up 3.3 percent from a year earlier. It marked the highest annual number since [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean research team has discovered a useful ingredient in a poisonous mushroom that suppresses the growth of lung cancer cells. A joint research team from the National Institute of Forest Science and Sungkyunkwan University separated six kinds of natural ingredients from Amanita spissacea, a known poisonous mushroom. [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has announced the launch of a ‘K-Cancer’ initiative to build big data records on the clinical information of the most common cancers for Koreans, including stomach cancer, colon cancer and lung cancer. The Ministry of Health nd Welfare gave a briefing about its public health data and [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A mutation occurring in a BRCA1/2 gene is seen as a primary factor that raises the risk of breast and ovarian cancer among women, and prostate cancer among men. What would you do if your fiance had a DNA mutation that could cause breast cancer? According to a survey [...]
DAEJEON, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Basic Science Institute announced on Tuesday that it had developed a molecular compound ‘probe’ that creates fluorescent signals by reacting specifically to cancer tissue. The oxygen density of cancer tissue areas increases along with the proliferation of cancer cells in the human body. Research is actively underway [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced a plan to establish a national cancer data library by collecting a comprehensive range of medical information on domestic cancer patients, including records of their medical treatment and examination before being diagnosed with cancer and their prognosis after being diagnosed with cancer. The national cancer data [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The risk of breast and colon cancer increases after menopause if weight exceeds an optimal level, research showed Wednesday. Researchers from Samsung Medical Center had arrived at this conclusion following an analysis of the correlation between obesity and breast or colon cancer for about 600 women who participated in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The results of a recent study suggest that microwave-processed red ginseng can prevent the spread of cancer cells. A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and the Asan Medical Center announced on Tuesday the development of a new red ginseng processing technology that uses [...]