Cell mechanism discovery could lead to ‘fundamental’ change in leukemia treatment
Researchers have identified a new cell mechanism that could lead to a fundamental change in the diagnosis and treatment of leukaemia. A team in the...
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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty receives funding
In the United States, more children are lost to cancer than any other disease, and one in 285 children will be diagnosed before they turn...
Errors made by ‘DNA spellchecker’ revealed as important cause of cancer
Cancer is mostly caused by changes in the DNA of our cells that occur during our lifetime rather than those that we inherit from our...
Long-sought mechanism of metastasis is discovered in pancreatic cancer
Credit: Vakoc Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Cells, just like people, have memories. They retain molecular markers that at the beginning of their...
Cancer-death button gets jammed by gut bacterium
ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Researchers at Michigan Medicine and in China showed that a type of bacterium is associated with the recurrence of colorectal cancer...
Researchers release first draft of a genome-wide cancer ‘dependency map’
Credit: Tom Ulrich In one of the largest efforts to build a comprehensive catalog of genetic vulnerabilities in cancer, researchers from the Broad Institute of...
Glowing tumor technology helps surgeons remove hidden cancer cells
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Surgeons were able to identify and remove a greater number of cancerous nodules from lung cancer patients when combining intraoperative...
New SU2C-Lustgarten Foundation team aims to apply CAR T-cell therapy to pancreatic cancer
PHILADELPHIA - July 27, 2017 - Stand Up To Cancer is supporting a new translational research team to explore how a type of immunotherapy that...
Blocking the back-door that cancer cells use to escape death by radiotherapy
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio (Edmonton) A natural healing mechanism of the body may be reducing the efficiency of radiotherapy in breast cancer patients, according to a...
Study finds breast cancer driver, HER2, in 3 percent of lung cancers
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium at the University of Colorado Cancer Center reports this week in the journal Cancer...
Large gaps remain in colorectal cancer screening rates, study finds
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, July 27, 2017-- Large gaps remain in colorectal cancer screening rates between poorer immigrants and wealthier long-term residents,...
Manmade peptides reduce breast cancer’s spread
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 27, 2017) - Manmade peptides that directly disrupt the inner workings of a gene known to support cancer's spread...
In assessing risk of hormone therapy for menopause, dose — not form — matters
Credit: UCLA Health FINDINGS When it comes to assessing the risk of estrogen therapy for menopause, how the therapy is delivered -- taking a pill...
Seattle Children’s opens CD22 CAR T-cell immunotherapy trial for children and young adults
SEATTLE - July 27, 2017 - After seeing promising results in phase 1 of the Pediatric Leukemia Adoptive Therapy (PLAT-02) trial with 93 percent of...
E-cigarette use may encourage experimentation with tobacco, study finds
Credit: University of Stirling Young people who have tried an e-cigarette may be more likely to go on to smoke cigarettes compared with those who...
