Medical research

Promising new options for treating aggressive prostate cancer

Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have identified two promising new treatment options for men with recurrent prostate cancer—both of which helped patients live longer without their disease progressing than the current standard ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Consumer Health: What is glioblastoma?

More than 14,490 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2023, according to the National Brain Tumor Society, and 10,000 people in the U.S. will die of the disease. The five-year survival rate is 6.9%, and ...

Oncology & Cancer

Exploring why some cancer patients don't respond to immunotherapy

Why doesn't every cancer patient respond to immunotherapy? That's the question that researcher Daniel Peeper is looking to answer. His research group tries to identify genes that play a role in immunotherapy resistance. In ...

Medications

Existing drug opens new possibilities for treating child leukemia

A new study from Linköping University has shown that the tumor-inhibiting gene TET2 is silenced in a large fraction of cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children. The scientists show that the gene can be reactivated ...

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