For leukemia patients, transfusion needs may delay hospice care
Toward the end of life, some leukemia patients depend on blood transfusions to ease their suffering. Unfortunately, the likelihood that transfusions won't be accessible through...
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Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE - Dec. 9, 2017 - Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's Research Institute at the 59th...
Study results offer another boon for PARP inhibitors in treatment of advanced breast cancer
SAN ANTONIO - Patients with certain advanced hereditary breast cancers may have new treatments options on the horizon, according to two studies presented this week...
For women with genetic risk, bi-annual MRI beats mammograms
Intensive surveillance including a dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) exam every six months was far more effective in detecting breast cancer in younger women...
Lymph node surgery may raise risk of arm morbidity in younger women
SAN ANTONIO -- Younger breast cancer patients who underwent axillary lymph node dissection were more likely to experience arm swelling and decreased range of arm...
Family members without inherited mutation have increased risk of melanoma
In families who carry certain inherited mutations that increase the risk for melanoma, members who do not carry the mutation also have an increased risk...
Molecular beacon signals low oxygen with ultrasound
Credit: Video courtesy of Jefferson Chan, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Areas of hypoxia, or low oxygen in tissue, are hallmarks of fast-growing cancers...
ERC grant: €2 million for synthetic biology at TU Darmstadt
Darmstadt, December 8, 2017. The European Research Council awards an ERC Consolidator Grant to professor Heinz Koeppl and supports him for a period of five...
PARP inhibitor improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced breast cancers and BRCA
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center In a randomized, Phase III trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the PARP...
ECOG-ACRIN discovers a simple blood test may predict recurrence of breast cancer
A simple blood test that detects tumor cells circulating in the blood shows promise as a new way to predict high or low risk of...
Including diagnosis related costs, 3-D mammography costs less than digital mammography
SAN ANTONIO - Although digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or 3-D mammography, costs more than a digital mammography (DM) screening, it actually may help rein in...
Novel compound restores immune response in patients with melanoma
Credit: © ESMO LUGANO-GENEVA, Dec. 8, 2017 - A novel compound may restore immune response in patients with melanoma, according to a study presented at...
Researchers discover resistance mechanism to checkpoint inhibitors and how to reverse it
LUGANO-GENEVA, Dec. 8, 2017 - Researchers have discovered a mechanism of resistance to checkpoint inhibitors and how to reverse it. The biomarker results from the...
New assay may help predict which pancreatic lesions may become cancerous
Philadelphia, Dec. 8, 2017 -A report in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, describes a new simple molecular test to detect chromosomal abnormalities -- biomarkers known...
SABCS: I-SPY 3-year pCR results are powerful predictor for breast cancer survival
Credit: Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative SAN FRANCISCO, C.A., December 7, 2017 - Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative, sponsor and manager of the I-SPY TRIALs for Breast...
