Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new report published Thursday.
Nov 16, 2023
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Anticancer treatment strategies increasingly seek to raise reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, cause macromolecular damage, and kill cancer cells. Electromagnetic fields can elevate intracellular reactive oxygen species ...
An investigational therapy for solid tumors could be especially effective when combined with immunotherapy to target a specific kind of cancer cell, a research team at Duke and Harvard have found.
Nov 8, 2023
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While the overall cancer death rate has been steadily declining in the U.S. since the 1990s, death rates due to pancreatic cancer are increasing.
Nov 8, 2023
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Researchers have identified genetic tests that predict which cancer patients may benefit from the drugs in combination with chemotherapy.
Nov 6, 2023
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A discovery by a QIMR Berghofer-led team of international scientists has potentially unlocked an entirely new approach to targeting the blood cancer acute myeloid leukemia, bringing hope to patients who are no longer responding ...
Oct 30, 2023
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Improving treatments for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive tumor with very poor prognosis and limited therapeutic targets, has been challenging. Responding to this need for better treatments, researchers ...
Oct 30, 2023
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A study in human cell lines reveals cancer cells can activate a force-generating mechanism to survive a cancer therapy.
Oct 24, 2023
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A research team from the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a crucial epitope (a protein section that can activate the larger protein) on the CD95 receptor that can cause cells to die. This new ability to ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Inadequate health care access, unhealthy diets and not enough exercise are all well-known risk factors for the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in women—breast cancer—but what was never clear is why death rates ...
Oct 20, 2023
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