‘Hail Mary’ mechanism can rescue cells with severely damaged chromosomes
Credit: Sullivan Lab, UC Santa Cruz The DNA vital to the life of a cell is packaged in chromosomes, and ...
Month: June 2017
Adding abiraterone to standard treatment improves prostate cancer survival by 40 percent
Adding abiraterone to hormone therapy at the start of treatment for prostate cancer improves survival by 37 per cent, according ...
Immunotherapy drug effective for metastatic triple negative breast cancer
The immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab--already FDA-approved for other forms of cancer-has been found to be effective in patients with metastatic triple ...
Penn effort to expand trials of olaparib leads to new treatment options for patients with advanced BRCA-related breast cancer
Credit: Penn Medicine CHICAGO -- Six years ago an international team of physician scientists known as BRCA-TAC led a charge ...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in ready-to-eat foods
New Orleans, LA - June 4, 2017 -Research presented at the ASM Microbe 2017 meeting by Bryan Sanchez of California ...
Web-based system for self-reporting symptoms helps patients live longer
ASCO Perspective "Online technologies have transformed communications in practically every aspect of our lives, and now we're seeing they're also ...
Abiraterone slows advanced prostate cancer, helps patients live longer
ASCO Perspective "This study provides strong evidence to support adding abiraterone to standard hormone therapy, primarily for men with metastatic ...
Olaparib slows growth of BRCA-related metastatic breast cancer
ASCO Perspective "These long-awaited findings show that this new class of treatment can deliver better results for women with BRCA-positive ...
New drug shows durable efficacy across diverse pediatric and adult cancers
ASCO Perspective "Though the study is small and early, it demonstrates compelling evidence that may pave the way for a ...
New technology dives deep into the cancer genome
ASCO Perspective "We continue to see promising reports about possible uses of circulating tumor DNA analysis. While this approach has ...
Cancer patients who systematically reported their symptoms lived longer
Credit: Brian Strickland/UNC Lineberger CHICAGO-Cancer patients who reported their symptoms to their cancer care providers using a web-based survey lived ...
Routine genomic testing is feasible, but only a subset of patients benefit
ASCO Perspective "This study gives more validation for the use of genomics in clinical practice and shows it could very ...
Steady decrease in severe health problems for childhood cancer survivors
ASCO Perspective "Perhaps no other area of oncology has seen such dramatic progress in treatment over the past decades as ...
Two combination therapies shrink melanoma brain metastases in more than half of patients
CHICAGO - High response rates to a pair of combination therapies point to potentially new options for a group of ...
Increasing susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus in the United States
New Orleans, LA - June 4, 2017 - Findings from a study that looked at susceptibility trends of Staphylococcus aureus ...
Zika virus successfully diagnosed from semen
New Orleans, LA - June 4, 2017 -Research presented at ASM Microbe 2017 by experts at the Fertility and Cryogenics ...
Development of a novel vaccine for Zika
New Orleans, LA - June 4, 2017 - Research presented by Farshad Guirakhoo, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, GeoVax, Inc., at ...
Global study sets new risk-based standard to personalize chemotherapy for colon cancer
ASCO Perspective "In this case, less is more. We're now able to spare many patients with colon cancer unnecessary side ...
Pregnancy after breast cancer does not increase chance of recurrence
ASCO Perspective "These data provide reassurance to breast cancer survivors that having a baby after a breast cancer diagnosis may ...
Vapor from novel tobacco hybrid device minimally impacts human cells
New laboratory data reveal that vapour from a novel hybrid tobacco heating product (THP) iFuse and two standard THPs produced ...
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