Simple Ratio of Cancerous Lymph Nodes Predicts Bladder Cancer Survival, Massive Analysis Finds
For patients undergoing the most aggressive surgery that bladder cancer medicine has to offer, a single, deceptively simple number may ...
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Splitting Radiation Into Multiple Sessions Cuts Recurrence After Brain Metastasis Surgery
The first randomized phase 3 trial comparing postoperative radiation schedules for large brain metastases found that fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery over ...
Virtual Reality Helps Family Caregivers Face Death With Greater Confidence
A Taiwanese experimental study found that a 25-minute virtual reality education program significantly improved death literacy among family caregivers of ...
Simple 17-Point Geriatric Score Predicts Death Risk in Older Cancer Patients
French researchers have developed and externally validated a 17-point score based on the standardised Geriatric Core Dataset that predicts six-, ...
Heavy Drinking Raises Death Risk Even in Old Age, Landmark UK Study Finds
A decades-long follow-up of London civil servants shows heavy drinking raises mortality risk in men over 70, while the apparent ...
Diabetes and Cancer Feed Each Other: How Epigenetics Explains the Deadly Two-Way Street
A comprehensive review in Diabetes Therapy maps the bidirectional relationship between diabetes and cancer, positioning epigenetic dysregulation as the molecular ...
Resilience Training Shows Real Promise for Easing Stress in Cancer Patients, Major Review Finds
A systematic review of 33 randomized controlled trials covering 3,614 cancer patients finds that resilience interventions significantly reduce depression, anxiety, ...
Cancer Patients and Caregivers Back Biobank Research but Still Want Paper Consent
A survey of 965 people with cancer and caregivers in Türkiye found strong support for biospecimen research, with most favoring ...
Gut Microbiome Signatures Distinguish Five Cancer Types and Early-Onset Disease
A Mayo Clinic analysis of 1,364 cancer patients links distinct gut microbiome patterns to five cancer groups, early-onset colorectal and ...
How Widowed Men and Women Tell the Story of a Death: Grief Has a Grammar
A longitudinal French study of 22 spouses bereaved by cancer found that men and women narrate the end of life ...
When a Parent Is Dying: Global Study Reveals How Deprivation Reshapes Cancer Care for Families
A global qualitative study of 44 professionals in 23 countries finds that deprivation must be addressed through food, housing and ...
Patient Education Emerges as a Lifeline for Cancer Treatment Adherence Across Africa
A scoping review of 11 studies across eight African countries finds that structured, culturally tailored patient education, including SMS and ...
AI Reads Tissue Maps to Forecast Cancer Survival, Cell by Cell
An explainable graph neural network called SpaCEy identifies the spatial tissue patterns and protein markers that predict cancer survival and ...
Why Cancer Patients Fall for Online Misinformation: New Interview Study Reveals the Triggers
A qualitative interview study of cancer patients and caregivers in Saudi Arabia reveals that superficial search habits, trust in peer ...
New 18-Item Scale Brings Financial Toxicity of Cancer Into Focus for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Researchers in Nepal have developed and refined an 18-item scale, called FT-LM, to measure the financial toxicity experienced by cancer ...
Mapping a Way Out of Cancer Suffering: Scientists Build a Roadmap for Palliative Care in Poorer Nations
An international team of researchers has used a theory of change approach with 21 stakeholders from 12 countries to build ...
Diabetes Drug Metformin Surprisingly Blocks Ferroptotic Cell Death in Cancer Cells
New research shows that metformin and phenformin suppress cysteine deprivation-induced ferroptosis in cancer cells by dampening mitochondrial hyperpolarization, oxygen consumption, ...
Snail2 Emerges as the Master Switch Behind Partial EMT, Metastasis and Development
A comprehensive review in Cell Death Discovery maps how the transcription factor Snail2 governs partial epithelial-mesenchymal transition, driving both embryonic ...
RNA-Binding RBM Proteins Emerge as Double-Edged Players in Cancer
A new review in Medical Oncology details how the RBM family of RNA-binding proteins acts as both tumor suppressors and ...
Insulin Receptor Signaling Is Not One Pathway: Engineered Mimetics Reveal a Programmable Network
A new review argues that insulin receptor signaling is a programmable, context-dependent network that engineered mimetics can selectively retune across ...
