Oncology & Cancer
A method to observe cancer cells' potential to metastasize in the body
When cancer cells metastasize, they morph, becoming missile-shaped in order to penetrate into other tissues throughout the body.
Dec 16, 2021
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News tagged with metastatic cells
Medical research
New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types without side effects
Imagine you could cure cancer by targeting one tiny gene. Imagine that same gene occurred in every major cancer, including breast, prostate, lung, liver and colon. Imagine that the gene is not essential for healthy activity, ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Medical research
Researchers discover a new mechanism involved in early melanoma metastasis
Research led by CNIO scientist Héctor Peinado shows that the NGFR molecule drives the entire process of early metastasis in melanoma and that blocking it drastically reduces metastasis in animal models. The reduction was ...
Nov 26, 2021
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Medical research
Leading researchers team up to bring promising chemotherapy treatment to human trials
In 2015, University of Alberta cancer researcher Jack Tuszynski learned that his patent application for a promising chemotherapy treatment for people suffering from metastatic bladder cancer had been rejected by the U.S. ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers discover link between dietary fat and the spread of cancer
The study, published in the journal Nature and part-funded by the UK charity Worldwide Cancer Research, uncovers how palmitic acid alters the cancer genome, increasing the likelihood the cancer will spread. The researchers ...
Nov 10, 2021
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Medications
New life for a cancer drug that reprograms pain pathways to treat chronic pain
Chronic pain associated with nerve injury and chronic bone pain from metastatic cancer are unmet medical needs. This sober assertion does not begin to capture the crushing and devastating impact of these pain conditions on ...
Oct 27, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Nontoxic drug delivery system could lead to effective therapies for currently untreatable cancers
A non-toxic, bacteria-based system developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can detect when it is inside a cancer cell and then release its payload of therapeutic drugs directly into the cell. The work, published ...
Oct 21, 2021
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Immunology
Why don't adrenal gland metastases respond to immunotherapy?
Recent advances in immunotherapy have allowed doctors at the University of Colorado Cancer Center to more effectively treat melanomas that spread to other parts of the body. Immunotherapy drugs such as checkpoint inhibitors, ...
Sep 23, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
HER2-targeting antibody-drug improves progression-free survival for women with deadly form of advanced breast cancer
A study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that treating women with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer with the HER2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) ...
Sep 18, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
New nano particles suppress resistance to cancer immunotherapy
Hokkaido University scientists and colleagues in Japan have found a way that could help some patients overcome resistance to an immunotherapy treatment for cancer. The approach, proven in mice experiments, was reported in ...
Sep 17, 2021
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