Tag: cancer

Drs. Silvia Formenti and Heather McArthur to collaborateCredit: Stand Up To Cancer LOS ANGELES - (January 29, 2019) - Stand ...

Intermountain Healthcare, MDClone collaborate to transform patient data into actionable insight

Intermountain Healthcare has announced a new collaboration with Israeli healthcare IT company MDClone to increase caregivers' ability to transform data ...

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation grants over $4.7 million in awards to 24 top young scientists

Grants totaling over $4.7 million give early career investigators independence to pursue cutting-edge cancer research New York, NY (January 29, ...

Engineering a cancer-fighting virus

Credit: Yanagawa-Matsuda, et. al, Oncology Reports, November 12, 2018 An engineered virus kills cancer cells more effectively than another virus ...

Cardiff University researchers shed light on development of gastric cancer

New target for gastric cancer therapies Cardiff University researchers have uncovered new information about the underlying mechanisms for gastric cancer, ...

Lung-MAP precision medicine trial expands to include more patients

Credit: SWOG Cancer Research Network The Lung Cancer Master Protocol (Lung-MAP), the first precision medicine trial in lung cancer supported ...

Tongue microbiome could help identify patients with early-stage pancreatic cancer

Credit: Oleg Magni from Pexels Differences in the abundance of certain bacteria living on the tongue can distinguish patients with ...

Persistent sore throat could be larynx cancer warning

GPs should consider larynx cancer when patients report a persistent sore throat, particularly when combined with other seemingly low-level symptoms. ...

New precision medicine procedure fights cancer, advances treatment for pets and humans

MU veterinary oncologists develop a vaccine treatment for osteosarcoma, a common type of bone cancer in dogs, avoiding chemotherapy and ...

Mechanism explains breast cancer cell plasticity

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine One of the main obstacles to successfully treating breast cancer is the cells' ability to ...

Blocking pro-fibrosis pathway may improve immunotherapy of metastatic breast cancer

Drug approved for lymphoma and multiple myeloma may reduce fibrosis and immunosuppression A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has ...

Stand Up To Cancer dream team tackles t-cell lymphoma, focused on CAR-based strategies

Credit: Stand Up To Cancer SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Jan. 28, 2019 - Stand Up To Cancer announced here today ...

Making 'sense' of the 'cart before the horse' in mammalian cells.

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A fusion gene is a new gene made by joining parts of two different genes. ...

GW cancer researchers investigate nanoimmunotherapies for cancer

Rohan Fernandes, PhD, is leading a team in investigating the efficacy of a nanoimmunotherapy ensemble in treating cancer WASHINGTON (Jan. ...

Drug compound could be next-generation treatment for aggressive form of leukemia

Compounds show promise in treating acute myeloid leukemiaCredit: (Purdue Research Foundation image/Hope Sale) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have been ...

Cancer: A mutation that breaks gene interplay in 3D

Credit: Giovanni Ciriello (UNIL) Inside the cell, DNA is tightly wrapped around proteins and packed in a complex, 3D structure ...

Finding second hits to knock out leukemia

Credit: Ella Marushchenko (Vienna, 28 January 2019) Many new anti-cancer drugs inhibit proteins that are essential for the proliferation of ...

The growing role of precision and personalized medicine for cancer treatment

Credit: Authors In a paper published in the September/December 2018 issue of TECHNOLOGY, a group of researchers from Rutgers University ...

Rutgers researchers highlight need for more smoking cessation programs in state prisons

Many inmates in state prison facilities want to quit smoking but lack resources and tobacco dependence education programs to help ...

Tachycardia in cancer patients may signal increased mortality risk