Cancer
Computational advances in the label-free quantification of cancer proteomics data
This article by Dr. Feng Zhu et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2018 In recent years, proteomics research...
Breast cancer drugs could help treat resistant lung cancers
A class of drugs used to treat certain breast cancers could help to tackle lung cancers that have become resistant...
Medical scientists describe optimal immune therapeutic strategies for liver cancer
KAIST team presents a novel pathways involving T immune cell exhaustion, providing evidence and rationale for designing optimal strategies for...
Past and present of imaging modalities used for prostate cancer diagnosis
This article by Dr. Ghulam Murtaza et al. is published in Current Medical Imaging Reviews, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2018Credit:...
CWRU researcher awarded nearly $1 million from the DOD to study prostate cancer drug resistance
Sanjay Gupta, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center will receive $962,000...
Study: Increased risk of heart attack, stroke in months leading up to a cancer diagnosis
Risk greatest in people with later-stage cancers and lung and colon cancers (WASHINGTON, December 21, 2018) -- Older adults with...
Columbia professor uses data science to create personalized cancer therapies
Columbia's Andrea Califano has developed a highly-predictive computer platform that can analyze all tumor types and predict which drug or...
Bacteria-based drug delivery system that outperforms conventional methods
Credit: Virginia Tech An interdisciplinary team of three Virginia Tech faculty members affiliated with the Macromolecules Innovation Institute has created...
Novel imaging technique brings diagnostic potential into operating room
Boppart's custom optical imaging system provides molecular features of breast cancer tissue in real-timeCredit: Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for...
Study finds elevated risk of rare blood cancers after chemotherapy for most solid tumors
Findings from a new study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) show that patients treated with chemotherapy for...
Yale Cancer Center scientists advise caution in immunotherapy research
New Haven, Conn. -- In a new study, Yale Cancer Center (YCC) scientists suggest that as the number of clinical...
Researchers from the CNIO and the Hospital 12 de Octubre make sense out of the chaos of melanoma
Credit: CNIO Unlike other skin cancers - and without knowing really why - melanoma is one of the most aggressive...
Genome offers clues to esophageal cancer disparity
A genomic duplication may help explain why esophageal adenocarcinoma is much more common in Caucasians and presents a potential target...
Scientists find nanoparticles with peculiar chemical composition
Credit: MIPT Press Office Scientists from Russia and China discovered a host of new and unexpected nanoparticles and found a...
Current concepts and perspectives on connexin43: A mini review
This article by Dr. Baozhong Shen et al. is published in Current Protein & Peptide Science, Volume 19, Issue 11,...
Time to biochemical failure could be used as surrogate endpoint in treatment: LA prostate cancer
An analysis of the NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-RTOG 9202 showed that the interval of time to biochemical failure (IBF),...
A new way to cut the power of tumors
An international group of researchers managed to control the vascularization of tumors by acting on a gene that is overexpressed...
Higher radiation dose needed to X-ray obese patients increases cancer risk
Extremely obese people are needing a far higher dose of radiation during x-ray examinations than people of normal weight, increasing...
Targeted treatment slows progression of rare connective tissue tumor
In a phase three clinical trial, sorafenib stopped progression of desmoid tumors for two years in 80 percent of patients...
IASLC successfully pilots early lung imaging confederation project
Global lung cancer leader explores capabilities of deep learning and AI to improve screening and save lives DENVER - Evidence...