Report: New system for more accurate cancer staging to aid precision medicine
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Dec. 11, 2017 - Adding a blood test called liquid biopsy to a standard tissue biopsy could significantly improve the accuracy of...
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Immunotherapy for Merkel cell carcinoma — novel research highlights quality of life benefits
11th December 2017 Future Science Group (FSG) today announced the publication of an article in Future Oncology that has demonstrated in patients with metastatic Merkel...
Health warnings on cigarettes could deter young people
Credit: Cancer Research UK Young people are less likely to try cigarettes with the printed health warning 'Smoking kills' on each stick than standard cigarettes,...
National lung cancer roundtable brings together patients, clinicians, others
December 11, 2017- The National Lung Cancer Roundtable holds its inaugural meeting on December 11-12, 2017 in Bethesda, Md., the first major meeting for a...
New therapies improve outlook for bleeding and clotting disorders
Credit: American Society of Hematology (Atlanta, December 9, 2017) -- In three studies being presented today during the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual...
Using software, researchers predict tumor markers that could be immune targets
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have developed a software program that can accurately predict which tumor-specific markers will show up on...
WSU chemists develop novel Washington Red dye for bio-imaging
Credit: WSU Washington State University scientists have created an injectable dye that illuminates molecules with near infrared light, making it easier to see what is...
Yeast can be engineered to create protein pharmaceuticals
Credit: Mingtao Huang/Chalmers It took several years, but a research team headed by Professor Jens Nielsen at Chalmers University of Technology has finally succeeded in...
‘Black box’ recorder puts surgeons’ robotic surgery skills under the microscope
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES - You may know that your surgeon is using the latest minimally invasive technology for your surgery, but how...
E-cig use increases risk of beginning tobacco cigarette use in young adults
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 11, 2017 - Young adults who use electronic cigarettes are more than four times as likely to begin smoking tobacco cigarettes within 18...
Soy, cruciferous vegetables associated with fewer common breast cancer treatment side effects
WASHINGTON -- Consuming soy foods (such as soy milk, tofu and edamame) and cruciferous vegetables (such as cabbages, kale, collard greens, bok choy, Brussels sprouts,...
Low-dose treatment with Il2 across studies shows benefits in chronic graft-versus host
ATLANTA - Daily low doses of the immune signaling protein interleukin-2 (IL-2) can safely benefit patients who develop chronic graft-versus-host disease following stem cell transplants,...
Study shows combining chemotherapy with targeted drug boosts response in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
ATLANTA - Among younger patients newly diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), treatment with a combination of chemotherapy and a molecularly targeted drug significantly improves...
CAR T, immunotherapy bring new hope for multiple myeloma patients
PHILADELPHIA - Two investigational immunotherapy approaches, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, have shown encouraging results in the treatment of multiple myeloma patients...
Phase 2 CAR-T study reports significant remission rates at 15-month follow up
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A study involving the recently approved CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy shows that 42 percent of patients...
