High-intensity electrical pulses have been medically used to destroy tumors while sparing healthy tissue. But lower-intensity pulses may have a different effect—they reshape the battlefield, making tumors more vulnerable ...
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Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.
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People often put a lot of thought into getting a tattoo. But there's one thing most people forget to think about—what impact the tattoo might have on their health in the long run. What happens to the ink once it's in your ...
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Dana-Farber investigators found that normally defunct viral genes that lie dormant in the human genome can be activated in the most common form of kidney cancer (clear cell renal cell carcinoma) and can end up triggering ...
Feb 28, 2025
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Mitochondria are vital to energy production in cells and so play a key role in fueling cancer growth. However, how mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) contributes to cancer has been unclear.
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Despite the development of numerous cancer treatment technologies, the common goal of current cancer therapies is to eliminate cancer cells. This approach, however, faces fundamental limitations, including cancer cells developing ...
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Researchers from the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford, along with collaborators from international institutions, found significant associations between diet and colorectal cancer risk. Examining data from ...
One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the margins between malignant and normal tissue. A new study uses DNA origami structures to selectively deliver ...
Apr 22, 2025
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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 ...
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Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic malignancy globally and is increasing in incidence and mortality with currently more than 300,000 new cases and 200,000 deaths annually, according to data from the World Health ...
