Patients treated outside NCI centers less likely to receive high-cost lung cancer drugs
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Genetically targeted drugs and immunotherapies are transforming the way we treat many forms of ...
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National Foundation for Cancer Research conducts Salisbury Award Competition
Winner and runners-up named, Salisbury Family honoredCredit: NFCR ROCKVILLE, MD - The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) last Thursday, ...
Children’s Tumor Foundation and DELopen increase access to compounds for neurofibromatosis
Credit: Children's Tumor Foundation New York: November 19, 2019 - The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), an innovative and global neurofibromatosis ...
Tiny filters help detect cancerous blood cells
A computer model is used to guide the design of tiny pillars in a microfluidic device used to detect malignant ...
A new pathway to ‘reprogram’ killer cells
Credit: Institute of Pathology, University of Bern The so-called natural killer (NK) cells are cells of the innate immune system ...
Milestone reached in new leukemia drug
Credit: Vakoc lab/CSHL, 2019 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists, with chemists and cancer biologists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), have ...
Scientists use catalysts to destroy cancerous cells from within
Credit: UGR Divulga Using "Trojan horses" to combat cancer from within the tumour cells themselves without damaging healthy tissues is ...
25 years of learning to combat cervical cancer
Credit: (A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (2018). Volume 68, Issue: 6, Pages: 394-424. doi: 10.3322/caac.21492) According to the World Health ...
Anal cancer rates and mortality have risen dramatically among Americans
Credit: UTHealth Rates of new anal cancer diagnoses and deaths related to human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted ...
‘Dual login’ mechanism found to resist fungal infection in cells
Indiana University-led research has revealed how two specific immune receptors coordinate to trigger a powerful response against fungal invadersCredit: Image ...
One-two punch drug combination offers hope for pancreatic cancer therapy
Study provides rationale for an immediate clinical trial evaluating the 2 therapiesCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. - Nov. ...
Omega-3 shows protection against heart disease-related death, without prostate cancer risk
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Should you take omega-3 pills? Or try to have two to servings of omega-3 rich fish a ...
Vaping less harmful than smoking for vascular health, major study finds
Study finds significant improvements in vascular health of chronic smokers who transition to e-cigarettesCredit: Dominic Glasgow / University of Dundee ...
FDA accepts submission for selumetinib as treatment for neurofibromatosis
Would become first approved drug for genetic disorder affecting millionsCredit: Children's Tumor Foundation AstraZeneca and MSD (Merck) announced today that ...
A step closer to cancer precision medicine
Credit: University of Helsinki Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM) at the University ...
FEFU scientists obtained new compounds with potential antitumor effect from sea sponge
Credit: FEFU press office Chemists from Far Eastern Federal University's School of Natural Sciences (SNS FEFU) developed a new method ...
Blocking a survival mechanism could tackle melanoma treatment resistance
Credit: the Babraham Institute The effectiveness of current treatments for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, could be improved ...
Discovery: New biomarker for cancer stem cells
Protein linked to tumor survival and spreadCredit: University of Houston In the world of cancer biology, not all biomarkers are ...
High expression of apoptosis protein (Api-5) in chemoresistant triple-negative breast cancers
The cover for issue 61 of Oncotarget features Figure 4, 'The influence of stress conditions on API-5 expression and inhibition,' ...
Leukaemia cells can transform into non-cancerous cells through epigenetic changes
Credit: Manel Esteller All the tissues of our body have the same DNA, but they perform very different functions and ...
