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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Some genes are known to drive cancer, and astonishing new research shows why: Mutations in the noncoding regions become functional, altering the abundance of messenger RNA, or mRNA, and potential...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-mutations-noncoding-dna-functional-cancer.html
Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have developed a new urine-based test that addresses a major problem in prostate cancer: how to separate the slow-growing form of the...
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Scientists have found a potential treatment strategy for an aggressive type of leukemia by targeting enzymes used by cells to sense and adapt to oxygen levels.
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Using spatial analysis of tissue samples, Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified patterns that could predict whether patients with the most common type of ovarian cancer will experience early...
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With more than 200 types of cancer and every cancer individually unique, ongoing efforts to develop precision oncology treatments remain daunting. Most of the focus has been on developing genetic...
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Women with triple-negative breast cancer, and high levels of immune cells in the tumors, have a lower relapse risk after surgery, even without chemotherapy, according to a recent study published ...
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Through millions of years of evolutionary refinement, the human body has developed a sophisticated surveillance mechanism—the immune system. This intricate network is constantly scanning the bo...
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Cancer cells can change shape to travel around the body and spread (metastasize), but how they know when to do this has remained elusive.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-shifting-cancer-cell-discovery-reveals.html
Cancer cells grow and spread by hiding from the body's immune system. Immunotherapy allows the immune system to find and attack hidden cancer cells, helping cancer patients live longer lives. How...
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Researchers from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have created a urine-based test that detects pieces of DNA fragments released by head and neck tumors. The test could potent...
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Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are next-generation drugs that can treat disease by blocking the transfer of harmful messages from our genes. In people with cancer, ASOs have the potential to b...
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New research from the University of Pittsburgh explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient's T c...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-insights-immunotherapy-rare-deadly-eye.html
Breast cancer is now the world's most common cancer; at the end of 2020, 7.8 million women were alive after having been diagnosed in the previous five years. In the same year, 685,000 women died ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-people-breast-cancer-systematically-left.html
A drug used to treat children with epilepsy prevents brain tumor formation and growth in two mouse models of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), according to a study by researchers at Washington Univ...
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Researchers at Peter Mac have found a new way to treat a form of leukemia that stops the disease in its tracks to prolong remission.
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Researchers at the University of Nottingham have created an endoscopic device that can 3D image the stiffness of individual biological cells and complex organisms, a discovery that could help doc...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-world-microscopic-stiffness-probe-advance.html
Drug-loaded 3D printed films could change cancer treatments forever as world first research from the University of South Australia shows that new films not only kill more than 80% of liver cancer...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-liver-cancer-treatment-cells-chemo.html
Researchers from the University of Liverpool and the University of Edinburgh have found evidence that shows that people with cancer face a higher risk of mortality from COVID-19 compared with tho...
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New research from the University of Oklahoma reveals a previously unknown chain of events sparking the development of cancer cachexia, a debilitating muscle-wasting condition that almost always o...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cell-crosstalk-triggers-cancer-cachexia.html
A new study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine finds that computer algorithms powered by artificial intelligence based on deep learning can help health care practitioners to diagnose skin ca...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-ai-accuracy-skin-cancer.html
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. With global incidence rates rising, new, more effective treatments are necessary to alleviate the health burden of the disease. Important advances i...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-genomic-deletions-melanoma-resist-therapies.html
Researchers have discovered how the mechanical properties of tumors can prime cancer cells to better survive their spread to other organs.
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Metformin is a widely prescribed drug for managing type 2 diabetes. In recent years, indications of its potential anticancer properties have emerged in research. A study conducted at the Universi...
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A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has unearthed new findings that may help explain the connection between cancer risk and poor diet, as well as common diseases like ...
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Understanding the nature of malignant effusions, teeming with tumor cells and clusters, is critical in comprehending the breadth of cancer's impact. The significant role of tumor clusters, with t...
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Researchers at Peter Mac have overcome a major barrier that could see a revolutionary immunotherapy treatment becoming successful on patients with solid cancer types.
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