Oncology & Cancer
Study reveals how gastric cancer forms, suggests preventive treatment
A recently published study reveals new insights into how gastric cancer develops and suggests a preventive treatment.
Jul 1, 2022
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News tagged with gastric cancer
Surgery
Weight-loss surgery slashes cancer risk and mortality, new study finds
Individuals with obesity were at least two times more likely to develop certain types of cancer and 3.5 times more likely to die from from the disease than those who had weight-loss surgery, according to a new study presented ...
Jun 7, 2022
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Genetics
Gene variation may be early indicator for gastric cancer
Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are hoping to catch stomach cancer before it develops in at-risk patients. In a paper published in Gastroenterology, researchers identified a genetic variation that ...
Jun 6, 2022
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Health informatics
An AI model may predict elevated pancreatic cancer risk using electronic health records
An artificial intelligence (AI) model trained using sequential health information derived from electronic health records identified a subset of individuals with a 25-fold risk of developing pancreatic cancer within three ...
Apr 8, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers develop model to predict treatment response in gastric cancer
A study by researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Florida is validating the use of genomic sequencing to predict the likelihood that patients with gastric cancer will derive benefit from chemotherapy or from immunotherapy. ...
Feb 14, 2022
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Medications
Sensitivity to chemotherapy may guide treatment of patients with stomach cancer
A study led by scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center shows that chemotherapy after surgery for gastric adenocarcinoma is significantly associated with longer survival in patients with chemosensitive disease, ...
Jan 17, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Development of a new gastric cancer model: Identification of gastric cancer stem cells
Researchers have succeeded in establishing a mouse model that develops gastric cancer closely resembling advanced human gastric cancer. Using this model, they have discovered gastric cancer stem cells, i.e. Lgr5+ gastric ...
Dec 22, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Pembrolizumab combination as a potentially transformative treatment for HER2-positive gastric cancer
Initial findings of the phase III KEYNOTE-811 trial of pembrolizumab plus trastuzumab and chemotherapy—first presented at ASCO 2021—have led to the subsequent FDA approval of this combination for the first-line treatment ...
Dec 15, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Protein variant identified that renders chemotherapy ineffective in gastric cancer
A new protein variant underlies the ability of gastric cancers to resist an otherwise effective family of chemotherapy drugs, according to a study by a multidisciplinary team at Weill Cornell Medicine. The results suggest ...
Dec 6, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
What you need to know about stomach cancer
(HealthDay)—New treatment options are giving hope to patients with stomach cancer.
Nov 25, 2021
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