First child cured of rare brain tumor 'offers real hope'
When Lucas was diagnosed with a rare type of brain tumor at the age of six, there was no doubting the prognosis.
Feb 13, 2024
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When Lucas was diagnosed with a rare type of brain tumor at the age of six, there was no doubting the prognosis.
Feb 13, 2024
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A multi-institutional team of Chinese microbiologists and pharmacologists has developed a novel way to fight cancerous tumors. Called ONCOTECH, it combines oncolytic virotherapy and adoptive T cell therapy for treatment of ...
An interdisciplinary team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers from computational medicine, genetics, biostatistics, and surgery investigated how cell cycle flexibility allows tumor cells to escape the effect of anti-cancer drugs ...
Feb 9, 2024
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Lung tumors called adenocarcinomas sometimes respond to initially effective treatments by transforming into a much more aggressive small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that spreads rapidly and has few options for treatment. Researchers ...
Feb 8, 2024
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A protein that has been widely studied owing to its association with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is also linked to medulloblastoma, a type of central nervous system cancer. Medulloblastoma ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common lung cancer and the cause of most cancer-related deaths in the United States. There are several ways lung adenocarcinoma can arise, one of which is a mutation in a protein called EGFR ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Directed by Laura Soucek, an ICREA Research Professor, Director of VHIO's Experimental Therapeutics Program and head of our Models of Cancer Therapies Group, two decades of research aimed at combating resistance to therapy ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Italian scientists from Università Cattolica at Rome have discovered an important genetic mechanism that pancreatic cancer cells employ to evade therapies, paving the way to new drugs for a killer disease. The tumor evades ...
Feb 6, 2024
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Through an analysis of tumor samples collected over time from patients with advanced melanoma, a Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a set of preexisting conditions in tumors that predict whether such patients are ...
Feb 6, 2024
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Epithelioid sarcoma, a rare aggressive cancer that usually strikes young adults, and rhabdoid tumors, which affect children, have long been difficult to treat. But the outlook for people with these subtypes of soft tissue ...
Feb 5, 2024
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