Oncology & Cancer
Gentle stroll on treadmill helps prevent liver cancer
Regular gentle exercise could play a role in reversing liver damage that can lead to cancer, suggests a new study.
Feb 16, 2021
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News tagged with cancer tumours
Oncology & Cancer
Human pancreatic cancer model offers new opportunities for testing drugs
UNSW scientists have grown human pancreatic cancer tumors in the lab—their model is the first of its kind, with important future clinical implications.
Jan 22, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Target of new cancer treatment valid for breast as well as blood cancers
One more piece of the puzzle has fallen into place behind a new drug whose anti-cancer potential was developed at the University of Alberta and is set to begin human trials this year, thanks to newly published research.
Jan 21, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers develop a new approach to detect pancreatic cancer
A protein found commonly in human blood might help with the detection of hard-to-diagnose pancreatic tumors. Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the Alfried Krupp Hospital in Essen and the University ...
Jan 21, 2021
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Radiology & Imaging
'Virtual biopsies' could replace tissue biopsies in future thanks to technique developed by Cambridge scientists
A new advanced computing technique using routine medical scans to enable doctors to take fewer, more accurate tumour biopsies, has been developed by cancer researchers at the University of Cambridge. This is an important ...
Jan 6, 2021
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Medical research
Treatment-resistant cancer cells are already present before diagnosis of adult leukemia
T-cellacute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a cancer of the blood that affects mainly children, but also less frequently adults. In adults, although the response to treatment might be initially positive, relapses are common ...
Dec 17, 2020
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Medical research
Researchers identify the origin of a deadly brain cancer
Researchers at McGill University are hopeful that the identification of the origin and a specific gene needed for tumor growth could lead to new therapeutics to treat a deadly brain cancer that arises in teens and young adults. ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Medications
New analysis method for predicting the risks and effects of immunotherapy
In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to show differences in how rituximab, a monoclonal antibody drug, interacts with the blood of healthy individuals compared to patients with chronic lymphatic ...
Dec 11, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
VRK1: A protein that reduces the survival of patients with neuroblastoma
Researchers from the Departments of Cell Biology and Medical Physiology at the University of Seville have identified that a high expression of the human protein VRK1 is associated with tumor aggressiveness and low survival ...
Dec 11, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
The immunomodulatory activity of a drug would improve the efficacy of immunotherapy in breast cancer
Despite the success of immunotherapy in the treatment of cancers such as lung or melanoma, it is still not effective in breast cancers for being 'cold', with low infiltration of immune cells. Tumors use strategies to evade ...
Dec 10, 2020
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