Oncology & Cancer

Team makes a step towards earlier diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

A multidisciplinary team from the University of Granada has developed software that can make it easier to identify potential pancreatic cancer biomarkers and thereby achieve earlier diagnosis of the disease. These biomarkers ...

Inflammatory disorders

Research team diagnoses asthma with nasal brush test

Mount Sinai researchers have identified a genetic biomarker of asthma that can be tested for using a simple nasal brush and basic follow-up data analysis. This inexpensive diagnostic test can accurately identify mild to moderate ...

Oncology & Cancer

Can a simple blood test rule out lung cancer?

Every year, health care providers in the United States discover more than 1.6 million lung nodules in patients. Many are "incidentally detected," meaning they are found during evaluation for an unrelated cause (for example, ...

Oncology & Cancer

Proteins reveal new mechanisms in prostate cancer

A study by the University of Tampere in Finland used protein profiling to find new prostate cancer mechanisms that are not shown by aberrations at the genomic level. Several new potential biomarkers of prostate cancer were ...

Oncology & Cancer

New biomarkers predict outcome of cancer immunotherapy

Researchers at the University of Zurich have identified biomarkers in the blood that make it possible to predict whether cancer patients will respond positively to immunotherapy. Pa-tients for whom therapy does not work can ...

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers zero in on molecular fingerprint for prostate cancer

Six cancers that claim more than 23,000 Australian lives each year1 should be prioritised for research that makes it possible to identify the molecular fingerprint of the tumour and improve survival, according to a landmark ...

Oncology & Cancer

Novel biomarkers identified for prostate cancer in non-blacks

(HealthDay)—Novel biomarkers have been identified that may have utility for predicting prostate cancer in non-African-American men, according to a study published in the July issue of The Journal of Urology.

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