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New radiotherapy technique aims to protect the heart during lung cancer treatment

A new study presented at ESTRO 2025 introduces the RAPID-RT study, which uses an innovative rapid-learning approach to evaluate the impact of treatment modifications in radiotherapy. The paper also appears in Radiotherapy ...

Oncology & Cancer

Molecular profiling can safely reduce radiation for women with endometrial cancer: Clinical trial results

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in highly-developed countries, most often affecting women after menopause. The majority of women are diagnosed at an early stage, when treatment outcomes are generally ...

Oncology & Cancer

Origins of common lung cancer that affects smokers discovered

The "cell of origin" of the second most common lung cancer and the way that it becomes dominant in the lung have been discovered in a new study in mice and humans by researchers at UCL, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the ...

Oncology & Cancer

More men with prostate cancer are avoiding unnecessary surgery

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death among men in the United States. Despite this, widespread adoption of prostate cancer screening has been controversial. Many primary care doctors worry that screening ...

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New research guides treatment regimen for aggressive blood cancer

Relapsed/refractory (R/R) mature T and natural killer (NK)-cell lymphomas (TNKL) are aggressive blood cancers often resistant to frontline therapies. A team of Mass General Brigham researchers found that patients with these ...

Oncology & Cancer

PBAF chromatin may explain melanoma spread to the brain

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a possible reason why some cases of melanoma—a dangerous form of skin cancer—spread to the brain. Their study, published in Molecular Cell, highlights ...

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Blocking APOC1 protein can slow lymphoma cell growth

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common and fast-growing type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that affects the lymphatic system. It makes up around 30–40% of adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases worldwide. ...

Oncology & Cancer

Cancer mortality continuing to decline, says report

Overall cancer mortality rates declined from 2001 through 2022, while cancer incidence rates decreased from 2001 through 2013 and stabilized through 2021, according to the 2024 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of ...

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A common diabetes drug may prevent leukemia, mouse study suggests

Metformin, a widely used and affordable diabetes drug, could prevent a form of acute myeloid leukemia in people at high risk of the disease, a study in mice has suggested. Further research in clinical trials will be needed ...