Immunotherapy research for head and neck cancers gets boost from V Foundation grant
Credit: UC San Diego Health A team of University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center researchers studying new drugs designed...
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Stem cells in intestinal lining may shed light on behavior of cancer cells
URBANA, Ill. - The lining of the intestines - the epithelium - does more than absorb nutrients from your lunch. It grows, shrinks, and adjusts...
Drug-delivering nanoparticles seek and destroy elusive cancer stem cells
Credit: Image courtesy of Dipanjan Pan CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- University of Illinois researchers are sending tiny drug-laden nanoparticles on a mission to seek and destroy...
Mount Sinai scientists identify novel therapeutic targets for metastatic melanoma
(New York, NY - November 27, 2017) - Mount Sinai researchers have identified novel therapeutic targets for metastatic melanoma, according to a study published in...
Increased oral pathogens, decreased bacterial diversity predict precancerous stomach cancer lesions
Elevated pathogen colonization and a lack of bacterial diversity in the mouth were identified in people with precancerous lesions that could precede stomach cancer, finds...
Cancer drug starts clinical trials in human brain-cancer patients
Credit: Photo courtesy Tim Fan CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct has been cleared for use in a clinical trial...
Cells bulge to squeeze through barriers
Credit: Video by Kaleb Naegeli, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- Invasive cells deploy a trick to break through tissues and spread to other parts of...
New strategy for multiple myeloma immunotherapy
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - In recent decades monoclonal antibody-based treatment of cancer has been established as one of the most successful therapeutic strategies for...
ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress in Europe to answer to open questions in cancer immunotherapy
LUGANO, 24 November 2017 - You are still on time to register as Press representative for the ESMO Immuno Oncology Congress 2017 to be held...
Biologists studied cellular cannibalism in cancerous growths
Credit: Anastasiia Garanina Researchers from Lomonosov MSU Faculty of Biology have studied the stages of entosis, a process of cell death when one cell invades...
Promising new treatment for rare pregnancy cancer leads to remission in patients
Three out of four patients with the cancerous forms of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) went into remission after receiving the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab in a...
Researchers show stress suppresses response to cancer treatments
Credit: The University of Queensland New research shows that chronic stress suppresses the immune system's response to cancer, reducing the effectiveness of immunotherapy treatments. Universi..
High levels of natural immune suppressor correlate with poor survival in the most common leukemia
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 27, 2017) - Patients diagnosed with the most common form of leukemia who also have...
Tumor-associated bacteria hitches a ride to metastatic sites
The same bacteria present in primary tumors of patients with colorectal cancer are also present in liver metastases, a new study finds. What's more, presence...
Antimalarial drugs could support existing cancer treatments in two-pronged attack
Antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could find another use as cancer treatments, according to a new clinical study published in ecancermedicalscience. Researchers from the Repurpos..
