Research from the Cancer Institute at the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (JFCR), which was published today in the leading international scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals ...
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The cells of most patients' cancers are resistant to a class of drugs, called proteasome inhibitors, that should kill them. When studied in the lab, these drugs are highly effective, yet hundreds of clinical trials testing ...
May 28, 2019
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Mining the rich uncharted territory of the genome or genetic material of a cancer cell has yielded gold for Princess Margaret scientists: new protein targets for drug development against prostate cancer.
Nov 15, 2019
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified blood-based biomarkers that may determine which patients will benefit from continued hormonal therapy for advanced prostate cancer. The results are published ...
May 3, 2019
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The new drug sotorasib reduces tumor size and shows promise in improving survival among patients with lung tumors caused by a specific DNA mutation, according to results of a global phase 2 clinical trial. The drug is designed ...
Jun 4, 2021
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The therapeutic potential of microtubule-associated protein targets for cancer therapy is a largely unexplored research area due to a lack of target-specific agents. Sushmita Chatterjee and a research team in nanomedicine, ...
Over the past 20 years, our knowledge of hereditary diseases has taken a quantum leap, and several hereditary gene variants have been found that may predispose to the development of cancer. We have known for a long time that ...
May 14, 2020
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(HealthDay)—A gene therapy that tweaks the immune system might offer hope to people with blood cancer that has resisted standard treatments, a new preliminary trial suggests.
May 2, 2019
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Progress against DIPG, a fatal childhood brain tumor, is usually a game of inches. Studies that hint at even small gains are cause for celebration.
Aug 13, 2020
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A new algorithm can predict which genes cause cancer, even if their DNA sequence is not changed. A team of researchers in Berlin combined a wide variety of data, analyzed it with "Artificial Intelligence" and identified numerous ...
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