Tag: cancer

Microfluidic device may help researchers better understand metastatic cancerCredit: UGA Athens, Ga. - Instead of searching for a needle in ...

Improving health outcomes with a little help from our friends — and artificial intelligence

Medical University of South Carolina researchers identified socially isolated prostate cancer patients with 90 percent accuracy by parsing physicians' notes ...

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center awarded nearly $9 million to expand access to clinical trials

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has been selected, once again, as a Lead Academic Participating Site by the National Cancer Institute. ...

Marine organisms hold promise for treating triple negative breast cancer

FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute researchers receive $801,000 from Florida Department of HealthCredit: Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute ...

The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology: Colorectal cancer incidence on the rise among young adults in several high-income countries

The incidence of colon and rectal cancer in adults younger than 50 years has increased substantially over the latest available ...

Cancer drugs promote stem cell properties of colorectal cancer

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and the Mannheim University Medical Center have now discovered that ...

CRISPR catches out critical cancer changes

Researchers reveal which gene fusions are critical for the growth of cancer cells and identify a new drug target for ...

A new approach to targeting cancer cells

UC Riverside researchers develop new drugs that target therapeutically relevant protein surfacesCredit: Pellecchia lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A ...

Growth in life expectancy in Australia slows, research finds

After 20 years of rapid increases in life expectancy at birth, the rate of growth in Australia is now falling ...

Clinicians could prescribe fitness apps to help cancer survivor’s exercise

Fitness apps could be prescribed by clinicians to help patients recovering from cancer increase their physical activity levels, new research ...

Enzyme PHLPP2 could be a viable drug target for treating prostate cancer

Credit: Trotman lab/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- An estimated 450,000 Americans are diagnosed each year with a cancer that's ...

Researchers identify new therapeutic target for metastatic prostate cancer

Study could also have implications for a wide range of other cancers that involve the critical MYC oncogeneCredit: Nowak et ...

Big data helps identify better way to research breast cancer’s spread

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Scientists are using a lot of genomic data to identify medical issues sooner in patients, but ...

Healthy habits could avoid 27% of cancer cases in Brazil

A study by Brazilian researchers in partnership with Harvard estimates the impact of five risk factors on the incidence of ...

Novel study discovers ‘metabolic fingerprint’ to help treat, diagnosis and prevent cervical cancer

Researchers at the University of Arizona have completed the first-of-its-kind study that could aid in the treatment, diagnosis and prevention ...

In cancer research, a winding road to discovery

Book by MIT professor examines the circuitous history behind the investigation of cancer as a contagious illness. In 1961, people ...

Rates of long-term opiate use rises in Medicare cancer survivors each year after diagnosis

GALVESTON, Texas - Using Medicare data, new findings from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston show for the ...

MDI biological laboratory receives $30,000 to support organoid course

Course will provide extensive laboratory training in organoid technologyCredit: Leif Oxburgh Laboratory at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute. BAR ...

Pitt study finds direct oxidative stress damage shortens telomeres

Credit: Fouquerel et al. (2019). Mol Cell. PITTSBURGH, May 14, 2019 - The same sources thought to inflict oxidative stress ...

IL-1 inhibitors may reduce radiation-induced vascular damage