New method to determine before surgery which prostate tumors pose a lethal threat
Credit: Krasnitz lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - The facts about prostate cancer can be confusing. It's the third most common cancer type among...
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Press invitation to Europe’s largest congress on hepatology
When: 11-15 April 2018 Where: Paris expo Porte de Versailles, 1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 75015 Paris, France What is ILC 2018? The...
MD Anderson to present key drug study findings for multiple blood cancers at ASH annual meeting
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will present their latest findings involving drug treatments for blood cancers at the American Society...
Missing DNA fragments hold clue to predicting childhood leukaemia relapse
Australian researchers have developed a new risk scoring system for children with leukaemia based on missing DNA fragments or 'microdeletions'. The risk score will allow...
D’Angelo receives American Cancer Society Research Scholar grant
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute La Jolla, Calif., Dec. 1, 2017 - Maximiliano D'Angelo, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical...
Genetic link found between the immune system and lymphoma
People who inherit genetic changes which alter the function of their immune system are at increased risk of developing Hodgkin lymphoma, a major new study...
Researchers ID bacteria tied to esophageal cancer
Researchers at NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center report that at least three kinds of bacteria in the mouths of Americans may heighten or lower...
Oral microbiota indicates link between periodontal disease and esophageal cancer
To interview Jiyoung Ahn, contact Julia Gunther at [email protected] or 215-446-6896. Bottom Line: An analysis of bacteria present in the mouth showed that some types...
Lung cancers in some African-Americans and European-Americans may have biological differences
Bottom Line: Differences in the genes expressed in non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) from some African-Americans and European-Americans suggest that there are racial differences in...
Invasive cells in head and neck tumors predict cancer spread
Credit: Massachusetts Eye and Ear (BOSTON) - Head and neck tumors that contain cells undergoing a partial epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition -- which transforms them from neatly...
Scientists visualize structure of key DNA repair component with ‘near-atomic resolution’
Credit: ©University of Science & Technology of China,Illustration: Guoyan Wang and Yanbing Ma;structure based on the cryo-EM map of a yeast Mec1-Ddc2 complex (EMDB ID...
Communication between lung tumors and bones contributes to tumor progression
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have identified a way in which a type of lung cancer co-opts a portion of the immune system to increase...
Cancer drug leads to ‘drastic decrease’ in HIV infection in lung cancer patient
Doctors in France have found the first evidence that a cancer drug may be able to eradicate HIV-infected cells in humans. In a letter published...
Shifting protein networks in breast cancer may alter gene function
A given gene may perform a different function in breast cancer cells than in healthy cells due to changes in networks of interacting proteins, according...
How bone cells promote lung cancer growth
A certain type of cell in the bone marrow can help promote tumor growth in mice with early stage lung cancer, a new study finds....
