Anal cancer’s first randomized trial for inoperable disease sets the treatment standard
Journal of Clinical Oncology publishes results of worldwide InterAAct trial. Less toxicity and overall survival benefit of 7.7 months suggest ...
Tag: cancer
Heisenberg funding for Anne-Kathrin Classen
Credit: Photo: Harlad Neumann The German Research Foundation (DFG) is supporting Dr. Anne-Kathrin Classen with approximately 500,000 euros over five ...
Vitamin D could help mitigate chemotherapy side effects
Credit: University of South Australia As many cancer patients will confirm, the chemotherapy prescribed to kill the disease is often ...
Call for caution for using a CAR-T immunotherapy against acute myeloid leukemia
Credit: Pablo Menéndez Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematological malignancy which incidence increases with age, that is biologically, phenotypically, ...
Novotech webinar: Why Asia-Pacific attracts 60% of all hepatology trials globally
This webinar focusses on the reasons why the Asia-Pacific is attracting 60% of ongoing and planned hepatology trials globally (source ...
Susceptibility to carcinogens varies due to genetics
Credit: UH Cancer Center A new study led by the University of Hawai?i Cancer Center looks into how and why ...
NUS researchers uncover mysterious tanaids
Credit: National University of Singapore Tanaids are one of the most underappreciated animals in the world. These small crustaceans can ...
Wearable patch may provide new treatment option for skin cancer
Credit: Purdue University/Chi Hwan Lee WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Conventional melanoma therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, suffer from the toxicity ...
Antibodies against sugars, internal radiation: Powerful package against cervical cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University The sugar coating on cancer cells helps them thrive, and a new study ...
CU Cancer Center researcher working on early cancer detection named Pew-Stewart Scholar
Dr. Ramachandran is looking to improve methods for early cancer detection using cell-free DNA.Credit: CU Cancer Center University of Colorado ...
UCI researchers uncover cancer cell vulnerabilities; may lead to better cancer therapies
Monitoring RNA hotspots reveals target in cancer tumor cellsCredit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - June 12, 2020 - ...
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $3.2 million to top clinical investigators
Credit: Stacey Kratz The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named four new Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators. The recipients of ...
Study links elevated levels of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) with breast cancer risk
Hollings Cancer Center researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina assess the connection between dietary advanced glycation end products ...
Prodigiosin-based solution has selective activity against cancer cells
A new nanoformulation was described by Kazan University's Bionanotechnology Lab in Frontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologyCredit: Kazan Federal University Together ...
Putting ‘super’ in natural killer cells
Deleting an inhibitory gene in natural killer cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is found to boost their anti-tumor ...
A novel mechanism that triggers a cellular immune response
Credit: National Cancer Institute Viruses and other disease-causing microbes influence the type of immune response their hosts will develop against ...
Rice lab turns fluorescent tags into cancer killers
Replacing one atom in molecule gives it the power to destroy tumor cells when light-activatedCredit: Xiao Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - ...
Designing new radiotherapy technologies to treat cancer in low and middle-income countries
A new project supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) aims to design and develop new radiotherapy technologies ...
Chemotherapy/immunotherapy combo shows promise for first-line treatment of mesothelioma
Credit: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Inoperable malignant pleural mesothelioma, is a rare and aggressive cancer of the ...
ModGraProDep: Artificial intelligence and probabilistic modelling in clinical oncology
Mathematic modelling: new frontiers in the fight against cancerCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE Improving the prediction ...
