Cancer
Media registration: Cancer Immunotherapy Conference in New York
The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT), the European Academy of Tumor Immunology (EATI), and the...
AI model ‘learns’ from patient data to make cancer treatment less toxic
MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and...
Palliative care may reduce suicide risk in veterans with lung cancer
Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff Results from a large-scale patient population study, recently published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society,...
Late effects of treatment hinder independence of adult survivors of childhood brain tumors
Credit: Peter Barta / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital In the first study of its kind, St. Jude Children's Research...
Kidney cancer’s developmental source revealed
In the first experiment of its kind, scientists have revealed the precise identity of cancer cells of the most common...
Nuclear gatekeeper could block undruggable prostate cancer targets
(PHILADELPHIA) - Certain molecular drivers of cancer growth are "undruggable" - it's been nearly impossible to develop chemicals that would...
Scientists identify genetic marker for gastric cancer prognosis
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - August 9, 2018 - Although immunotherapy is seen as a very promising treatment for cancer, currently only...
Discovery could lead to better treatment for leukemia
Previous research has revealed that patients with acute myeloid leukemia who also have a particular mutation in a gene called...
Common skin cancer can signal increased risk of other cancers, Stanford researchers say
People who develop abnormally frequent cases of a skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma appear to be at significantly...
Finally, a potential new approach against KRAS-driven lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The previous decade has seen dramatic advances in the treatment of non-small cell lung...
Computational platform optimizes multiple myeloma treatments
Masturah Bte Mohd Abdul Rashid and colleagues have developed a new platform that optimizes drug combinations for the treatment of...
Cancer cells send out ‘drones’ to battle immune system from afar
Credit: The labs of Wei Guo, PhD, and Xiaowei Xu, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA - Cancer cells are...
Could edible chemotherapy encased in milk particles someday end infusions?
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences You can't eat chemotherapy. That's because your...
New NYUAD research finds 3D printers offer alternate method to create microfluidic probes
Credit: NYU Abu Dhabi August 8, 2018, Abu Dhabi: NYU Abu Dhabi Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Mohammad...
Is your lung cancer really ROS1-negative?
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Drugs like crizotinib are used to treat patients with ROS1-positive lung cancer. But which...
SwRI, UTSA researchers design minimally invasive medicinal implant
SAN ANTONIO -- Aug.8, 2018 -- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are...
Cleveland Clinic researchers receive $4.7 million NIH grant to prevent cancer-associated thrombosis
Credit: Cleveland Clinic Aug. 8, 2018, Cleveland: The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes...
Observing the mechanism of metastasis for the first time
Credit: Gabriel Jacobs, Tanner McArdle and Brian T. Freeman WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2018 -- Metastasis, or the formation of...
Discovery of a new tumor suppressor previously thought to be an oncogene
Credit: CNIO A gene that has for decades been considered a tumour promoter, the PLK1 gene, can also perform the...
Mayo research team identifies genes that increase risk for triple-negative breast cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. - A research team led by Fergus Couch, Ph.D., a geneticist at Mayo Clinic, has identified specific genes...