Tag: cancer

A 2D nanosheet developed by scientists in the Department of Biomedical Engineering could be used to control cell response via ...

Oncotarget: Hyperprogression to immune blockade followed by a response with cabozantinib

Volume 11, Issue 22 of @Oncotarget reported that more and more patients receive first-line treatment with immunotherapy combinations and not ...

Oncotarget: miR-151a enhances Slug dependent angiogenesis

Volume 11, Issue 23 of @Oncotarget reported that the authors have previously established that mi R-151a functions as an onco-mi ...

Cellular stress causes cancer cell chemoresistance

Postgenomic technologies reveal new mechanism of stress-induced chemoresistanceCredit: © Robert Ahrends There is a broad range of mechanisms associated with ...

Synthesized cell culture process sets stage for more efficient cancer research

Credit: Tatsuya Usui, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Researchers in Japan have replicated cancer cells from diseased bladder tissue ...

How magnetic fields and 3D printers will create the pills of tomorrow

June 9, 2020

Credit: University of Sussex Doctors could soon be administering an entire course of treatment for life-threatening conditions with a 3D ...

New pathway to attack tumor cells identified

June 9, 2020

Credit: INC-UAB A study led by the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) describes a new strategy to tackle cancer, based on ...

New method to identify genes that can drive development of brain tumors

June 9, 2020

Credit: Graphics: L. Gaffney Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a method for identifying functional mutations and their effect on ...

Health disparities prove to be multidimensional

Hollings Cancer Center researcher finds that it is important to have effective strategies for chronic disease prevention and management for ...

Global oncology pharmacists face restricted access to essential PPE items

Practitioners have needed to adjust cancer care during COVID-19 pandemicCredit: Maurisa Jones, UCI Irvine, Calif., June 8, 2020 -- Oncology ...

Better detection of a type of ovarian cancer could lead to better treatments

Credit: RCSI Scientists have found that a specific type of ovarian cancer could possibly benefit from existing platinum-based chemotherapy and ...

Study shows opioid, sedative and antidepressant use pre-surgery leads to worse outcomes

Credit: Shaun Ring LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 8, 2020) - A study led by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers ...

New treatment target verification for myelodysplastic syndrome

Credit: Dr. Goro Sashida A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan analyzed the pathophysiology of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a blood ...

When cancer cells can’t make their own fat, they eat more of it

Cancer cells rewire their metabolism to compensate for a halt in fat production by importing more fat molecules from their ...

JNCCN: Many hospitalized people with advanced cancer struggle with important daily tasks

Researchers at Mass General Cancer Center discover 40.2% of advanced cancer patients with unplanned hospitalizations experienced functional impairment, which correlated ...

Cord blood for stem cell transplant may outperform matched sibling donor

June 5, 2020

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center When a cancer patient needs a bone marrow transplant, there are four common donor ...

Largest ever study of radiosurgery for brain metastases from small cell lung cancer