Sperm quality unaffected by one course of chemotherapy for early testicular cancer
First study to investigate long-term effect of postoperative chemotherapy or radiotherapy on sperm count and concentration Men with early stage ...
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Illinois researchers are first to count growth factors in single cells
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Bioengineering Whether healthy or diseased, human cells exhibit behaviors and processes that are largely ...
Medicaid expansion led to increase in screening for colorectal cancer patients in Kentucky
Credit: American College of Surgeons CHICAGO (February 22, 2019): Kentucky is one of the poorest states in the U.S.1 However, ...
Older biologic age linked to elevated breast cancer risk
NIH scientists use epigenetics to help predict disease developmentCredit: NIEHS Biologic age, a DNA-based estimate of a person's age, is ...
Outfitting T cell receptors to combat a widespread and sometimes deadly virus
Credit: Jennifer Maynard/Ellen Wagner/University of Texas Researchers have engineered "antibody-like" T cell receptors that can specifically stick to cells infected ...
A ‘joint’ problem: Investigating marijuana and tobacco co-use
A survey of marijuana and tobacco co-users by Medical University of South Carolina researchers found that co-users with a close ...
New research prize for best doctoral thesis on cancer
In memory of Professor Dan Grandér This year, the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet for the forst time awards a ...
Breast cancer study confirms importance of multigenerational family data to assess risk
A team of researchers led by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Professor Mary Beth Terry, PhD, evaluated four ...
Treatment to a T? Taking a ‘BiTE’ out of lung cancer
Researchers at Osaka University reveal a correlation between the activity of T cells in lung cancer tumors and equivalent activity ...
Nearly $20 million awarded by CPRIT to MD Anderson
Funds support research, recruitment and prevention in medically underserved areas HOUSTON -- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ...
Salk scientists uncover how high-fat diet drives colorectal cancer growth
Experimental drug candidate slows cancer progression in mouse modelCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(February 21, 2018) As cancer death rates drop ...
PET scans show biomarkers could spare some breast cancer patients from chemotherapy
De-escalation of treatment strategies aims to minimize toxicity while maintaining efficacyCredit: Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center In an effort to ...
New mechanisms regulating neural stem cells
Credit: Source: Helmholtz Zentrum München The use of stem cells to repair organs is one of the foremost goals of ...
MTHFD2 mitochondrial metabolic enzyme maintains cancer stem-like cells
Credit: Kanazawa University An increase in the incidence and mortality rate of cancer has been noted worldwide, especially for lung ...
Being overweight in adolescence may increase kidney cancer risk later in life
Being overweight has been linked with a higher risk of developing a form of kidney cancer called renal cell carcinoma ...
Consuming garlic and onions may lower colorectal cancer risk
Consumption of allium vegetables--which include garlic, leeks, and onions--was linked with a reduced risk of in colorectal cancer in a ...
Two types of HPV linked to cervical cancer have declined since the advent of the HPV vaccine
Bottom Line: An analysis of cervical precancers over a period of seven years showed that two strains of human papillomavirus ...
The Mark Foundation funds 14 new cancer innovation projects
$3.4 million in ASPIRE awards announced to support cancer research NEW YORK, NY -- The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research ...
New AI able to identify and predict the development of cancer symptom clusters
Cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy could soon benefit from a new AI that is able to identify and predict the ...
Antibody therapy training phagocytes to destroy tumors now tested on patients
Developed by researchers at the University of Turku in Finland, an immunotherapeutic antibody therapy re-educates macrophages to activate passivated cytotoxic ...
