Adding a pre-ketone supplement—a component of a high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet—to a type of cancer therapy in a laboratory setting was highly effective for treating prostate cancer, resear...
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In a new analysis of genetic susceptibility to kidney cancer, an international team of researchers has identified 50 new areas across the genome that are associated with the risk of developing ki...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-analysis-genomic-regions-kidney-cancer.html
CAR T cell therapy has proven effective in treating various hematological cancers. However, not all patients respond equally well to treatment. In a clinical study, researchers from the Universit...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-biomarkers-successful-treatment-bone-marrow.html
Metabolic diseases like obesity can increase the risk of developing liver cancer, research has shown. But how one disease predisposes to the other is unclear. In a new study, Yale researchers unc...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-driver-liver-cancer-treatment.html
Medulloblastoma (the most common malignant childhood brain tumor) is separated into four molecular groups, with Group 3 bearing the worst prognosis. By studying EP300 and CBP, critical proteins i...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-specific-protein-regions-treatment-approach.html
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Aalborg University in Denmark, have found that vitamin D encour...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-vitamin-d-mouse-gut-bacteria.html
A cancer drug was found to be ineffective in preventing recurrence of kidney cancer in patients who recently underwent tumor removal surgery, according to a clinical trial published in the Journa...
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Shutting down a gene called PRMT5 stopped metastatic estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer cells from growing after they acquired resistance to a standard therapy known as CDK4/6 inhibit...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-blocking-gene-halt-growth-breast.html
University of Waterloo researchers have invented a digital medical imaging system that significantly improves the cancer detection process to deliver immediate results and enable swift, effective...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-ai-powered-digital-imaging-cancer.html
A research team from the School of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), found positive effects of tai chi and aerobic exercise on sleep quality, psychological...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-reveals-tai-chi-benefits-quality.html
Survivors of breast cancer are at significantly higher risk of developing second cancers, including endometrial and ovarian cancer for women and prostate cancer for men, according to new research...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-highlights-cancers-breast-cancer-survivors.html
When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, the dose of most drugs is calculated based on the patient's body surface area. This is estimated by plugging the patient's height and weight into an equ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-loop-drug-delivery-chemotherapy.html
Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer diagnosis for U.S. women, and the second-leading cause of female cancer deaths. In recent years, breast cancer treatments have improved significantl...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-gene-networks-aggressive-breast-cancer.html
A new paper describes the role of two RNA-binding proteins in the development of sarcoma and carcinoma cancers, highlighting the important and emerging role of RNA-binding proteins in cancer rese...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-potential-avenues-cancer-therapies-rna.html
A research team including scientists from the CNRS has discovered that cancer, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, can be caused entirely by epigenetic changes, in other words, changes ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cancers-epigenetic-dna-mutation.html
Tumors actively prevent the formation of immune responses by cytotoxic T cells, which are essential in combating cancer. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig-Max...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-newly-mechanism-tumor-cells-evade.html
In a breakthrough for cancer research, scientists at EPFL have created lab-grown mini-colons that can accurately mimic the development of colorectal tumors, offering a powerful new tool for study...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-mini-colons-advance-colorectal-cancer.html
Researchers at Texas Children's Cancer Center and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist have published results of a P...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-car-cell-therapy-her2-antigen.html
A study led by Professors Hongtae Kim and JaYil Lee from the Department of Biological Sciences, in collaboration with researchers from the Catholic University of Korea, sheds light on the pivotal...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-reveals-insights-ddx41-protein-role.html
As a malignant disease of the liver cells, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the main causes of cancer-related deaths. While the treatment options for this aggressive type of cancer remain...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-liver-cancer-molecular-pathway-tumor.html
An accurate, affordable, environmentally and user-friendly diagnostic tool for multiple cancers—including pancreatic, gastric, and colorectal cancers—is reported in a paper in Nature Sustaina...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-sustainable-diagnosis-tool-multiple-cancers.html
In the past decade, immunotherapy has emerged as the fourth pillar of cancer treatment, joining surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It is an approved treatment for 15 cancers, including melan...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cancer-immunotherapy-prolonging-cell-survival.html
Purdue University researchers are developing and validating a patent-pending treatment for incurable glioblastoma brain tumors. Glioblastomas are almost always lethal with a median survival time ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-genetically-treatment-incurable-brain-tumors.html
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have designed a synthetic compound (antigen) that can latch on to a protein in blood and hitchhike a ride to the lymph node, where it can boo...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-hitchhiking-synthetic-antigen-antibody-production.html
A large international team of medical researchers has found that people with two types of body shape are more likely to develop colorectal cancer than people with other body types. In their study...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-obese-people-tall-centrally-colorectal.html
Retinoblastoma is a rare pediatric cancer, with approximately 250–300 new cases per year in the United States and 8,000 worldwide. The cancer grows within the retina, a thin layer of cells at t...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-expert-current-state-retinoblastoma.html
Last year alone, more than 600,000 people in the United States died from cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. The relentless pursuit of understanding this complex disease has shaped ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-safely-boost-immune-cells-cancer.html
A large team of cancer researchers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a pair of colleagues in the U.S., has found that artificial intelligence applications can be used to...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-ai-metastatic-cancer-cells.html
Liver inflammation, a common side-effect of cancers elsewhere in the body, has long been associated with worse cancer outcomes and more recently associated with poor response to immunotherapy. No...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cancer-liver-inflammation-therapeutic.html
Non-small cell lung cancer accounts for nearly 85% of all lung cancer cases. Targeted immunotherapy is a common treatment, but it does not work for everyone. However, a new Moffitt Cancer Center ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-therapeutic-small-cell-lung-cancer.html