The lack of a breast cancer risk prediction model tailored to Black women represents a critical gap, given that U.S. Black women, on average, are more likely to have breast cancer at earlier ages and with a worse prognosis ...
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For patients with some hard-to-treat blood cancers, a simple "off-the-shelf" immunotherapy is achieving promising results.
Apr 7, 2021
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Survival rates increased about 20% for children with high-risk neuroblastoma enrolled in a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital clinical trial that included a novel monoclonal antibody produced onsite. The findings appeared ...
Dec 6, 2021
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Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center showed about 70 percent of patients with the most common adult leukemia had their tumors shrink or disappear following an experimental chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) ...
Jul 17, 2017
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Giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back, according to the results of a Cancer Research UK clinical trial.
Jan 19, 2023
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Medulloblastoma is a rare but devastating childhood brain cancer. This cancer can spread through the spinal fluid and be deposited elsewhere in the brain or spine. Radiation therapy to the whole brain and spine followed by ...
Jun 10, 2021
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(HealthDay)—From 1997 to 2014 the estimated rate of annual increase in obesity prevalence was higher for adults with a history of cancer, according to a study published online July 25 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Setting up 'COVID-19 free' hospital areas for surgical patients could save lives during the second wave of the pandemic—reducing the risk of death from lung infections associated with coronavirus, a new global study reveals.
Oct 6, 2020
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Adding abemaciclib to hormonal therapy reduces the risk of cancer recurrence by 25% in patients with high-risk early hormone receptor positive (HR+) human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) breast cancer, ...
Sep 20, 2020
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A Phase II trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that BK virus (BKV)-specific T cells from healthy donors were safe and effective as an off-the-shelf therapy for BKV-associated ...
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