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Patients with high risk prostate cancer may benefit ‘equally’ from two new treatments
LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - Patients with high risk prostate cancer starting long-term hormone therapy may benefit from two new...
New data confirms superiority of docetaxel based triplet therapy in gastric cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - The superiority of docetaxel based triplet therapy over standard care in patients with resectable oesophago-gastric...
Pembrolizumab: promising response rate in pretreated metastatic gastric cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - Pembrolizumab has shown a promising response rate in patients with pretreated metastatic gastric cancer, according...
Penn Cancer biologist given National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award
Credit: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA--M. Celeste Simon, PhD, who studies cancer cell metabolism, tumor immunology, and...
LORELEI: Taselisib boosts breast tumor shrinkage
LUGANO-MADRID, 08 September, 2017 - Adding taselisib to letrozole before surgery significantly improved outcomes for patients with early breast cancer...
Internal mechanism found to be responsible for the limitless growth potential of epithelial tumors
Credit: Image: Mariana Muzzopappa, IRB Barcelona Researchers from the Development and Growth Control Laboratory at IRB Barcelona have identified the...
Hepatocellular carcinoma: Resection vs. transplantation
COLOGNE. Liver transplantation is the gold standard for treating early hepatocellular cancers. Because of the lack of donors, this option...
Lung cancer: Scientists find answer to resistance
Credit: University of Southern Denmark Research at the University of Southern Denmark has revealed that a new combination of clinically...
What mediates the beneficial effects of exercise on breast cancer outcomes?
Bottom Line: The ability of serum obtained from women with breast cancer immediately after finishing two hours of moderate to...
Comprehensive study of chronic disease reveals vulnerability of childhood cancer survivors
Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital The most complete assessment yet of chronic disease in adult survivors...
DNA sequencing could open up new drug indications for patients with rare cancers
LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - Thanks to DNA sequencing, patients with rare cancers for which no standard treatment is available...
New book on The Biology of the TGF-β Family from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Cover art created by Masato Morikawa, The University of Tokyo. Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
Lazy ants make themselves useful in unexpected ways
Credit: Matt Velazquez If the first thing that comes to mind when you think about ants is "industrious," you might...
U of U Health and Janssen Research & Development investigate genetics of suicide
Credit: CDC Data and Statistics Fatal Injury Report 2015 and University of Utah Health Even today, suicide is a taboo...
Meeting a microbe in the morning or in the evening: Is it all the same?
Does the time of day matter when our body is infected by a parasite? According to new research from McGill...
2017 Science in Society Awards winners announced
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Science in Society Journalism Awards, sponsored by the National Association...
Researcher at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown receives ERC grant
Credit: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown Eugenia Chiappe, an argentinian neuroscientist, principal investigator of the Sensorimotor Integration Lab at the...
How to draw electricity from the bloodstream
Men build dams and huge turbines to turn the energy of waterfalls and tides into electricity. To produce hydropower on...
Why it’s difficult to predict evolutionary fate of a new trait
Credit: Weinreich et. al. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The phrase "survival of the fittest" makes the principle of evolution by natural...
The Dead Sea: Environmental research on the edge of extremes
The water level of the Dead Sea drops by more than one meter per year. Thousands of sinkholes, sudden strong...
