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November 7, 2017

SEATTLE -- Nov. 7, 2017 -- A new category of immunotherapies called checkpoint inhibitors that has been highly effective against ...

Circulating tumor cells associated with relapse in late-stage melanoma patients

November 7, 2017

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A study revealing a connection between circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and relapse in stage IV ...

Subset of carbon nanotubes poses cancer risk similar to asbestos in mice

Nanotechnology, the science of developing materials containing very small fibers, is having a growing influence on daily life. Now researchers ...

Deadly lung cancers are driven by multiple genetic changes

A new UC San Francisco-led study challenges the dogma in oncology that most cancers are caused by one dominant "driver" ...

Ludwig scientists share research at The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting

NOVEMBER 6, 2017, NEW YORK - Ludwig Cancer Research has released the scope of its participation at the 2017 Society ...

Novel Nano-CT device creates high-resolution 3D-X-rays of tiny velvet worm legs

Credit: Mueller / TUM Computer Tomography (CT) is a standard procedure in hospitals, but so far, the technology has not ...

FDG PET shows tumor DNA levels in blood are linked to NSCLC aggressiveness

Credit: Silvia Morbelli, et al., San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Italy. RESTON, VA - Italian researches have demonstrated a ...

ESMO Asia 2017 Congress

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Nov. 6, 2017 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, is ...

New techniques give blood biopsies greater promise

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Koch Institute at MIT, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital ...

Can environmental toxins disrupt the biological ‘clock’?

Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. - Can environmental toxins disrupt circadian rhythms - the biological "clock" whose disturbance is linked to ...

Mini cancer tumors grown in first-of-kind pioneering research

Credit: University of Birmingham Charity Cancer Research UK has awarded the University of Birmingham £1.5 million to fund a five-year ...

Nano-sized gold particles have been shaped to behave as clones in biomedicine

Credit: Guillermo González Rubio. Shaping nanometric gold particles - of the size of millionths of a millimeter - to improve ...

Queen’s University Belfast research could see exercise as a prescribed medicine

Queen's University Belfast are taking part in a global trial to test whether exercise should be prescribed to treat patients ...

ESMO media alert: Cancer research to be presented at ESMO Asia Congress in Singapore