DNA-level biomarker can predict overall survival for rare brain tumors
COLUMBUS, Ohio - MGMT promoter methylation status -- information gathered at a DNA-level -- can help predict overall survival for ...
Month: September 2017
UA Cancer Center team identifies a switch that may help target dormant cancer cells
Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute TUCSON, Ariz. - A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and ...
Uninsured cancer patients saw increased coverage for care following Medicaid expansion
Credit: Fumiko Chino, M.D. SAN DIEGO, September 26, 2017 - A new study finds that Medicaid expansion enacted as part ...
ACA Medicaid expansion cut disparities in cancer care for minorities, poor
Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- States that fully expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act cut their ...
New system proposed for logging physician experience in robotic surgeries
MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine physicians have proposed a simple new system to improve the reporting of robotic surgeries performed ...
The Children’s Tumor Foundation and PLOS ONE are pleased to announce partnership
The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) and PLOS ONE are collaborating on a new funding program in the area of neurofibromatosis ...
Drug combo gangs up to take on triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Society of Surgical Oncology, National Institutes of Health, A Sister's Hope Foundation, Saslow ...
OUP offers free journals access through EAI in response to hurricanes, earthquake
New York, NY (September 22, 2017) - Oxford University Press (OUP) is partnering with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) ...
BU researcher honored for work on reducing cancer health disparities
(Boston)--Julie Palmer, ScD, associate director of Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center, professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public ...
Doctors gain a greater understanding of skin cancer using tattoos
Credit: University of Huddersfield CANCER is on the rise and the need to be empathetic when giving a patient their ...
New approaches in targeted cancer therapy
Precision medicine, which custom-tailors therapies to the needs of individual patients, is becoming more and more important in cancer therapy. ...
Photoacoustic imaging and photothermal cancer therapy using BR nanoparticles
Credit: KAIST Sangyong Jon, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST, and his team developed combined photoacoustic ...
TMIST breast cancer screening trial begins to enroll nearly 165,000 women
The Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), the first randomized trial to compare two types of digital mammography for breast ...
SBP scientist receives $10.8 million grant to advance potential drug for substance abuse
Credit: Kristen Cusato La Jolla, Calif., September 26, 2017 - Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) is pleased to ...
Focus screening efforts to ‘save thousands of lives’ from digestive cancers — say experts
Credit: UEG (Prague, 26 September, 2017) Experts from United European Gastroenterology (UEG), presenting at the European Digestive Cancer Days (EDCD) ...
Caribbean praying mantises have ancient African origin
Credit: Gavin Svenson, Ph.D. Three seemingly unrelated praying mantis groups inhabiting Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles actually ...
New study funded points to unexpected benefits of rabies vaccination in dogs
The rabies vaccine is extremely effective at preventing this fatal disease in dogs, but new research, funded by Morris Animal ...
Illinois researchers develop gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Bioengineering. Over the last 17 years, scientists and engineers have developed synthetic gene circuits ...
Portland State study links cancerous toxins to cannabis extract
(Portland, Ore.) Sept. 25, 2017 - Researchers at Portland State University found benzene and other potentially cancer-causing chemicals in the ...
Amount of water in stem cells can determine its fate as fat or bone
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Adding or removing water from a stem cell can change the destiny ...
