Tag: cancer

May 22, 2020

ESMO Breast Cancer Virtual Meeting, 23-24 May 2020Credit: European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano, Switzerland, 22 May 2020 - Two ...

Supportive care to relieve cancer-related fatigue underutilised by breast cancer survivors

May 22, 2020

ESMO Breast Cancer Virtual Meeting, 23-24 May 2020Credit: ESMO Lugano, Switzerland, 22 May 2020 - Cancer-related fatigue is a prevalent ...

Just a little physical activity pays big dividends to high risk breast cancer patients

May 21, 2020

Credit: Roswell Park Cancer Center Results of a comprehensive analysis of exercise and its protective role for high-risk breast cancer ...

New model shows how cells that cause liver cancer are created

May 21, 2020

Scientists show in-vivo and in-vitro how liver cancer stem cells are born, solving a central scientific mystery in this fieldCredit: ...

Cell-culture based test systems for anticancer drug screening

May 21, 2020

A new paper by Kazan Federal University appeared in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.Credit: Kazan Federal University As we know, ...

Potentially treatable genetic mutations revealed in subset of prostate cancer patients

Next-generation gene sequencing finds mutations in patients resistant to PSMA-targeting therapyCredit: Images created by C Kratochwil and CP Heussel et ...

New imaging analysis pipeline could aid in drug and vaccine development

Credit: Photo courtesy of Huang Lab From testing drugs to developing vaccines, the close study of the immune system is ...

Iron nanorobots go undercover

Nanobowls serve up chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells

Credit: Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00495 For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes -- hollow spheres made of ...

New study confirms important clues to fight ovarian cancer

Researchers examine proteins to identify what is 'broken' in tumor cellsCredit: Lenetstan/Shutterstock RICHLAND, Wash. -- The rogue cellular engine that ...

New analytic tool designed to help guide precision oncology discovery and treatments

Researchers can use this model to identify pre-clinical systems or potential treatments for multiple cancer typesCredit: University of Michigan Rogel ...

Why pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is so lethal

Credit: Vakoc lab/CSHL, 2020 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a deadly cancer, killing patients within a year. CSHL Professor Christopher ...

Cervical precancer identified by fluorescence, in a step toward bedside detection

Metabolic and structural changes in the cells are detected by their intrinsic fluorescence, a property that can be measured non-invasively ...

First-in-class drug candidate developed through NFCR funding commences phase IIB clinical trials

Three decades of NFCR basic and translational research funding to primary investigator Dr. Yung-Chi Cheng advances new systems biology paradigm ...

Location, location, location: The cell membrane facilitates RAS protein interactions

Salk scientists uncover how RAS proteins bind and get destroyed, which may improve cancer therapeuticsCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(May 18, ...

Cancer researchers locate drivers of tumor resistance

Credit: UT Health San Antonio Cancer biologists at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, ...

A new tool to map the flow of info within living cells

UNC School of Medicine and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers reveal the inner workings of cellular communication and ...

Scientists identify promising immunotherapy combination for pediatric brain cancer

Sanford Burnham Prebys researchers find drug that removes the 'invisibility cloak' from medulloblastomaCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute LA ...

Liver cancer: Awareness of hepatitis D must be raised

Credit: DR Of all the hepatitis viruses, D is the most poorly known. This small virus, which can only infect ...

Identification of a determining factor in luminal cancer cells