Medical research

New hope for kidney cancer treatment using existing drugs

The most comprehensive study of kidney cancer at single-cell level has discovered a potential drug target to treat renal cell carcinoma, a cancer with a high mortality rate that is hard to detect. Researchers from the Wellcome ...

Medical research

A new therapeutic target against the most common lung cancer

TIMP-1 protein levels in both tissues and blood have been repeatedly associated with a poor prognosis in lung cancers, but its role has been unknown. Now, a study led by Jordi Alcaraz, lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine ...

Medications

Is a cancer pill a matter of time?

A cancer pill, preferably without severe side effects, is something we'd all welcome. Is it a matter of time before such a pill is a reality? We put this question to three Leiden researchers and asked how they themselves ...

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