Medications

How drugs can target the thick 'scar tissue' of pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers—only about one in eight patients survives five years after diagnosis. Those dismal statistics are in part due to the thick, nearly impenetrable wall of fibrosis, or scar ...

Neuroscience

New strategies generate more accurate pediatric brain organoids

Essential features of the cortex, an important part of the human brain and its development, are more accurately captured in organoids generated by researchers of the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology and the ...

Oncology & Cancer

Ovarian cancer: Artificial intelligence predicts therapy responses

A model based on artificial intelligence is able to predict the therapy outcome (measured by volumetric reduction of tumor lesions) in 80% of ovarian cancer patients. The AI-based model has an accuracy of 80%, significantly ...

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