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'It's rare and it's scary.' Dark spot on your fingernail could mean cancer

If you are staring at a dark spot under your fingernail, you may want to see a dermatologist. It could be a form of melanoma.

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Common antidepressants could help the immune system fight cancer

A widely used antidepressant drug could help the immune system fight cancer, according to a new UCLA research study.

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Genomic score predicts patients' progression to multiple myeloma

A new risk assessment score developed by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospital reveals how multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, begins ...

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Beyond tired with cancer-related fatigue

Cancer-related fatigue can be distressing. It is a persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional and cognitive tiredness and/or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment that is not proportional to recent activity. ...

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Genetic test can diagnose brain tumors in as little as two hours

Scientists and medics have developed an ultra-rapid method of genetically diagnosing brain tumors that will cut the time it takes to classify them from six to eight weeks, to as little as two hours—which could improve care ...

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'Obesity paradox' extends to cancer treatment, study finds

It's well-known that obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. But some research suggests that while people who are obese are more likely to develop cardiovascular problems, they're also less likely to die from ...

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Protein linked to immunotherapy resistance in kidney cancer

A protein identified by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center may drive resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors, a widely used form of immunotherapy to treat cancer. The findings, published in Communications Medicine, ...

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Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma

A next-generation "armored" CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including commercially available ...

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Genetic test underused in cancer care

An emerging oncology tool known as broad genomic profiling or BGP is increasingly being used to help identify targeted therapies for patients diagnosed with cancer.

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Diabetes drug shows potential to slow prostate cancer cell growth

An international team of scientists led by the Medical University of Vienna has identified similarities in the mechanisms of diabetes and cancer: as the researchers show, the protein PPARγ, which is central to the regulation ...

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AI tool automates liver tumor detection and monitoring

Investigators of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology's (VHIO) Radiomics Group, led by Raquel Perez-Lopez, have developed SALSA (System for Automatic Liver tumor Segmentation And detection), a fully automated deep learning-driven ...

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New analysis helps discern benign from malignant thyroid growths

Telling the difference between benign and cancerous thyroid nodules before surgery is notoriously challenging, but a new study finds that a combination of artificial intelligence and data analysis techniques may yield surprisingly ...