Cancer
Widespread adoption of SBRT has improved survival rates for elderly patients with early stage lung cancer
Survival rates for elderly patients who received stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...
Custom-tailored strategy against glioblastomas
Glioblastomas are incurable malignant brain tumors. Usually the patients affected survive for only a few months. In addition, every tumor...
How cancer’s ‘invisibility cloak’ works
UBC researchers have discovered how cancer cells become invisible to the body’s immune system, a crucial step that allows tumours...
New Hope in Fight Against Aggressive, Often Hard to Treat Brain Tumor
Researchers from the University of Southampton have discovered a potential way of stopping one of the most aggressive types of...
Duke Team Identifies Blood Biomarkers in Drug-Resistant Cancer Tumor Cells
Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. — While searching for a non-invasive way to detect prostate cancer cells circulating in blood,...
Targeting fat to treat cancer
Salk Institute researchers and collaborators develop novel cancer treatment that halts fat synthesis in cells. Placebo-treated cells (left) have far...
Gene therapy technique may help prevent cancer metastasis
The spread of malignant cells around the body, known as metastasis, is the leading cause of mortality in women with...
Fighting Cancer with Space Research
NGC 3718, NGC 3729 and other galaxies have been analyzed using machine learning algorithms that can be “taught” to recognize...
High-capacity nanoparticle
Nanoparticles offer a promising way to deliver cancer drugs in a targeted fashion, helping to kill tumors while sparing healthy...
Cord blood transplant associated with high survival rate in high-risk leukemia patients
SEATTLE – Sept. 7, 2016 – Umbilical cord blood transplants may have advantages beyond offering an alternative stem cell source...
Computer simulation reveals p53 weak spots and opens new avenues against cancer
Cartoon representation of a complex between DNA and the protein p53 (described in Cho et al. Science 265 pp. 346,...
Scientists reveal insights into treatment resistance of metastastic breast cancer research
Dr. Daniel Haber(Bethesda, MD, Sept. 06, 2016) – A prominent physician scientist supported by the National Foundation of Cancer Research...
Research reveals artificial thyroid cancer epidemic
Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found doctors around the world are over diagnosing the most common...
Infrared light to detect early signs of esophageal cancer
Sarah Bohndiek, scientist at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge InstituteScientists have developed an endoscope that uses near-infrared light to spot...
Technique identifies chemotherapy-resistant cells within acute myeloid leukemia tumors
Although chemotherapy can sometimes cure acute myeloid leukemia and other hematologic cancers, many patients experience relapses when their tumors become...
PSA failure predicts risk of death only in healthy men
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)A new study by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has found that a rise...
Tumor microenvironment acts as a mechanism of resistance to chemotherapy
Researchers at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have published a new Oncotarget work which highlights the importance of the tumor...
Deaths from ovarian cancer decline worldwide due to oral contraceptive use
Deaths from ovarian cancer fell worldwide between 2002 and 2012 and are predicted to continue to decline in the USA,...
Microchip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells simultaneously. The advance holds promise...
New HIF-2 kidney cancer therapy more effective than current treatment, study shows
DALLAS – September 05, 2016 -A new class of drugs called HIF-2 inhibitors is more effective and better tolerated than...
