Cancer
Men and women are different: Why medical oncology needs to restate the obvious
LUGANO, 28 August 2018 - Gender-based approaches to studying and treating disease have remained largely unexplored in medical oncology, despite...
Study defines mechanisms behind focused-ultrasound-assisted treatment of brain tumors
A study led by a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has analyzed, for the first time, the mechanisms...
Researchers to test novel drug combination against toughest breast cancers
Credit: Image courtesy of Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have launched a phase Ib clinical...
UTSA enters Guinness World Records with smallest medical robot
Credit: The University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Aug. 27, 2018) -- It can't be seen with a...
Epigenetic analysis of aggressive brain tumors
Credit: Karl-Heinz Nenning (Vienna, August 27, 2018) Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive brain cancer that predominantly affects people in their...
Breast cancer breakthrough: Some tumors can stop their own spread
The findings, uncovered in mice and patient tumours, are published in Nature Cell Biology today. They reveal a previously unseen...
Predicting the response to immunotherapy using artificial intelligence
A study published in The Lancet Oncology establishes for the first time that artificial intelligence can process medical images to...
How do fruit flies grow legs? Solving a molecular mystery
Credit: Roumen Voutev/Mann Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- What do cancer and the growing legs of a fruit fly...
Cellular pumps protect the gut from toxins
The master regulators of gut stem cells, called intestinal myofibroblasts, have pumps that protect them, and thus the gut, from...
The youngest smoke more
Credit: Eivind Senneset "Since 1970, campaigns against smoking seem to have been largely successful, but the message has not been...
New online tool for clinicians could predict long-term risk of breast cancer returning
A new, simple web-based calculator that could better predict the long term risk of breast cancer returning in other areas...
New scientific study: no safe level of alcohol
SEATTLE - A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol. The study, published today in...
The Lancet: Alcohol is associated with 2.8 million deaths each year worldwide
Globally, one in three people drink alcohol (equivalent to 2.4 billion people), and 2.2% of women and 6.8% of men...
3D cell environment key for divvying up chromosomes — find could explain cancer hallmark
Credit: K. Knouse et al./Cell 2018 For some cells, context is everything. Cells plucked out of their native environs have...
Keeping cancer out of breath blocks drug resistance
Credit: University of Texas at Austin A new combination of existing drugs shows promise that it could reduce the size...
How not saying ‘cancer’ for low-risk thyroid cancer may affect treatment preferences, patient anxiety
Bottom Line: Could removing "cancer" from the terminology for low-risk small papillary thyroid cancers (PTCs) reduce patients' anxiety so they...
Integrated analysis finds vulnerabilities to target in a high-risk pediatric tumor
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (MEMPHIS, Tenn. - AUG. 23, 2018) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have completed...
Friends who are former smokers are key to helping people with serious mental illness quit
Credit: Dartmouth Institute People with serious mental illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of up to 25 years compared...
Polymer antibodies efficiently target and eliminate cancer cells
Credit: F. Canfarotto et al./Nano Letters A joint research team from Russia and the U.K. has demonstrated the possibility of...
Combination immunotherapy shrinks melanoma brain metastases
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Combination immunotherapy shrank melanoma that has spread to the brain in more than half of...
