Overlooked immune cells hold breakthrough for treating aggressive cancers
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina The latest generation of cancer treatments spring from the discovery that the human immune system is able to beat...
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NIH study uncovers clues about why common cancer drug causes hearing loss
Scientists have found a new way to explain the hearing loss caused by cisplatin, a powerful drug used to treat many forms of cancer. Using...
Ludwig researchers uncover mechanism behind metabolic vulnerability of some breast cancers
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research DECEMBER 19, 2017, New York -- Scientists have known since the 1980s that many cancer cells are relatively sensitive to the...
DNA annotations predict patient outcomes in childhood leukemia
UC San Francisco physician-scientists have developed a test that can predict how patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) will respond to treatment, and may also...
Novel combination therapy shown to be effective in ovarian cancer
PHILADELPHIA -- (Dec. 19, 2017) -- Researchers at The Wistar Institute have found that combining PARP inhibitors, recently approved for the treatment of BRCA-mutant ovarian...
Monocytes have many faces
Credit: © Foto: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn When the immune system mobilizes its troops, antigen-presenting cells play an important role. They can emerge from white blood...
Discovery of unsuspected flexibility offers new pathway to cancer drug development
Credit: Kathryn Faith Blood vessels are the supply lines of the human body, bringing nutrients and oxygen to cells and carrying away waste. Controlling the...
Researchers find possible markers for earlier diagnosis of aggressive tongue cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, also known as oral tongue cancer, is an aggressive form of cancer that generally affects older people. Patients with...
New measurements to guide radiation therapy
Credit: Vincent Lemelin, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2017 -- When ionizing radiation passes through living tissue, it interacts with molecules...
New $10.8 NIH grant supports KU research into cancer, neurological disorders, lung and heart disease
Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas' Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways, a National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical...
The not so sweet side of Christmas
A new video by the University of Warwick highlights a bitter side to our sugar consumption at Christmas. Available to view online https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=IDKj-0vvFeg the shor..
Arthritis drug could help treat advanced skin cancer
Treatment for the most deadly form of skin cancer could be more effective if combined with a well-known drug for rheumatoid arthritis, new research has...
Cervical cancer diagnoses and deaths to rocket in older women
Incidence of cervical cancer in young women is set to decline 75 per cent by 2040 with deaths close to eradicated, however older women will...
UNC Lineberger awarded $11.9 million grant to study radiation treatments for prostate cancer
Credit: UNC Lineberger CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina--The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, a..
Mutational signatures may ID pts with Br Ca most likely to benefit from platinum-based chemo
Bottom Line: The presence in advanced breast cancer of mutational signatures characteristic of homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) was associated with improved clinical outcomes to treatment...
