Oncology & Cancer
Promising system delivers chemo drug straight into tumors with fewer side effects
A stealthy new drug-delivery system disguises chemotherapeutics as fat in order to outsmart, penetrate and destroy tumors.
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Oncology & Cancer
Test shown to improve accuracy in identifying precancerous pancreatic cysts
In a proof-of-concept study, an international scientific team led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers has shown that a laboratory test using artificial intelligence tools has the potential to more accurately ...
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Oncology & Cancer
Continuous anticoagulants and cold snare polypectomy noninferior
(HealthDay)—For patients with subcentimeter colorectal polyps receiving oral anticoagulants, continuous administration of anticoagulants (CA) with cold snare polypectomy (CSP) is noninferior to periprocedural heparin bridging ...
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Medical research
Crunching the numbers of cancer metastasis
In metastasis, cancer cells break away from the original tumor and take root in another region of the body by entering the blood stream. In order to spread, metastatic cells cross over the endothelium—a barrier of endothelial ...
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Oncology & Cancer
Making cancer stem cells visible to the immune system
Leukemia stem cells protect themselves against the immune defense by suppressing a target molecule for killer cells. This protective mechanism can be tricked with drugs. In the journal Nature, scientists from Basel, Tübingen ...
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Oncology & Cancer
Broken heart syndrome linked with cancer
One in six people with broken heart syndrome had cancer and they were less likely to survive for five years after it occurred, according to new international research in Journal of the American Heart Association.
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Medications
Common steroid could soften up tumors for chemo
A common drug used to alleviate side effects of cancer treatment may also make the treatment more successful if given beforehand, report a consortium of research institutions including the University of Connecticut.
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