Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses a light-sensitive drug and a specific wavelength of light to destroy cancer cells. The treatment has become an important option for certain skin cancers because it can target diseased tissue ...
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Who doesn't want cancer testing results at lower cost, with greater speed and accuracy? Interdisciplinary innovators like Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) program leader Brian Cunningham are among the pioneers of the emerging ...
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When the BBC presenter Lauren Laverne revealed she has smoldering myeloma, the diagnosis sounded more alarming than it is. Her situation is more subtle and nuanced than the word "myeloma" suggests.
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Viagra was originally developed to treat high blood pressure and chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart, but over the past three decades it has become the world's best-known therapy for erectile dysfunction. ...
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Australian researchers have found a new biomarker for multiple myeloma that could help doctors rapidly identify patients at greatest risk of poor outcomes, enabling more personalized and effective treatments. Multiple myeloma ...
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Researchers presented an artificial intelligence (AI)-guided technique at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 23rd Annual Meeting that may improve the accuracy of delivering experimental therapies directly ...
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Chronic, low-grade inflammation in the body—a phenomenon known as "inflammaging" because it increases with age—has been linked to many of today's leading causes of illness and death, including cancer, heart disease, metabolic ...
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Megan (not her real name) had always taken pride in her ability to meet someone once and remember their name. Then came a breast cancer diagnosis in her 40s, chemotherapy and the brain fog that followed. She struggled to ...
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Researchers have uncovered a clue to why immune checkpoint inhibitors—cancer therapies that release the immune "brakes" exploited by tumors to evade attack—show limited efficacy in some brain tumors. A KAIST research team ...
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