Tag: cancer

Credit: Tuveson lab/CSHL 2019 Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related ...

Cardiac toxicity risk factors identified with relapsed multiple myeloma therapy

More than half of patients with relapsed multiple myeloma treated with carfilzomib experienced cardiac issues during treatment, according to a ...

Rutgers scientist creates ‘virtual biopsy’ device to detect skin tumors

Credit: Rutgers University Using sound vibrations and pulses of near-infrared light, a Rutgers University scientist has developed a new "virtual ...

American Cancer Society and Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance launch research collaboration

Four multidisciplinary teams to be funded to study survivorship In a new collaboration, the American Cancer Society and Ovarian Cancer ...

2019 Michelson Prize winners push the next frontiers of human immunology

Credit: UCSF, courtesy of the Human Vaccines Project June 13, 2019 - The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human ...

CNIO researchers find effective drug combinations for glioblastoma in mice

Credit: CNIO Usually, scientists study the molecular biology of cancer to find new treatments, but sometimes, it is the other ...

Enhanced human Blood-Brain Barrier Chip performs in vivo-like drug and antibody transport

Microfluidic Organ Chip model of human blood-brain barrier that recapitulates in vivo barrier functions offers new preclinical tool for development ...

No link between cancer and tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) use in psoriatic arthritis

Study includes data from over 8,000 people with psoriatic arthritis from four Nordic countries Madrid, Spain, 13 June 2019: The ...

Triple-negative breast cancer among black women in the US varies by birthplace

Study suggests the notion of higher triple-negative breast cancer incidence among black women is not generalizable A new study finds ...

Radiation plus chemotherapy doesn’t improve endometrial cancer recurrence-free survival

Surprised by finding, scientists say this may change locally advanced endometrial cancer care Standard of care has been radiation and ...

Penn researchers influence CDC’s clarification on prescribing opioids for cancer pain

Credit: Penn Nurisng PHILADELPHIA (June 12, 2019) - To reduce the number of people who may misuse, abuse, or overdose ...

Researchers discover trigger for muscle-wasting condition

Credit: OU Medicine Among all major cancers, pancreatic cancer has the highest rate of death - 93 percent of patients ...

Sensitive, noninvasive platform detects circulating tumor cells in melanoma patients

Credit: E.I. Galanzha et al., Science Translational Medicine (2019) Scientists have created a laser-based platform that can quickly and noninvasively ...

A heart failure drug to treat leukemia: A promising new therapeutic approach

Canadian researchers followed their intuition that a drug initially intended for heart failure could be effective in treating cancer. Those ...

Not silent at all

The so-called "silent" or "synonymous" genetic alterations do not result in altered proteins. But they can nevertheless influence numerous functions ...

Study shows more effective method for detecting prostate cancer

Combining biopsy strategies allowed doctors to find up to 33% more cancersCredit: UCLA Health Each year, 1 million men in ...

A gut feeling: Microbiome changes may mean early detection of colorectal cancer

Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - The gut has a population of organisms that live within in it, called the ...

Mathematical tools to study tumors

The mathematical analysis of images of tumors helps to understand what makes a cancer more or less aggressiveCredit: Universidad de ...

Specialist in immune research distinguished

Biochemist Robert Tampé has been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBOCredit: Uwe Dettmar "It's a special distinction for ...

A homing beacon for chemotherapy drugs