Oncology & Cancer
Protein could offer therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer
A protein that drives growth of pancreatic cancer, and which could be a target for new treatments, has been identified by researchers at the Crick.
Nov 12, 2019
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News tagged with aggressive cancer
Medications
New evolution-busting drug overcomes resistance in aggressive breast cancers
A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer's key evolutionary escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a new study has shown.
Oct 4, 2019
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Medical research
Researchers develop method for identifying aggressive breast cancer drivers
Precision cancer medicine requires personalized biomarkers to identify patients who will benefit from specific cancer therapies. In an effort to improve the accuracy of predictions about prognosis for patients with breast ...
Aug 20, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Bench to beside study of a targetable enzyme controlling aggressive prostate cancer
Prostate cancer represents a major health challenge and there is currently no effective treatment once it has advanced to the aggressive, metastatic stage. A new has revealed a key cellular mechanism that contributes to aggressive ...
Jul 2, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Noninvasive test improves detection of aggressive prostate cancer
A team of researchers from UCLA and the University of Toronto have identified a new biomarker found in urine that can help detect aggressive prostate cancer, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of men each year from ...
Jul 1, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Prostate cancer urine test shows who needs treatment and when
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital have developed a urine test to diagnose aggressive prostate cancer and predict whether patients will require treatment up to five ...
Jun 26, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Biomarker may help identify men with prostate cancer at greater risk of tumor metastasis
For about 90 percent of men with prostate cancer, the cancer remains localized to the primary site, resulting in a five-year survival rate of almost 100 percent. Unfortunately, the remaining 10 percent of patients develop ...
May 9, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Research could lead to more precise diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer
Oncologists may soon have an accurate and inexpensive way of differentiating between types of ovarian cancer that will improve how patients are treated, thanks to findings from a national research study co-led out of the ...
May 8, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Precise decoding of breast cancer cells creates new option for treatment
Researchers at the University of Zurich and from IBM Research have investigated the varying composition of cancer and immune cells in over 100 breast tumors. They've found that aggressive tumors are often dominated by a single ...
Apr 16, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
New evidence about why clear margins in breast cancer surgery are such good news
When a breast cancer tumor is removed with no signs of cancer left behind, it's great news for patients, and now scientists have more evidence of why.
Apr 1, 2019
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