More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat early-stage bladder cancer.
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found that genetics and type of cancer treatment contribute most to a survivor's risk of a second cancer.
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A research team has developed a new class of compounds that effectively inhibit both wild-type CDK9 and its drug-resistant mutant form, offering a promising strategy for treating hematological malignancies.
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers are using personalized models to decode how cancer behaves in individual patients—revealing hidden subtypes, improving survival predictions and charting a new course for precision ...
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Long-read sequencing technologies analyze long, continuous stretches of DNA. These methods have the potential to improve researchers' ability to detect complex genetic alterations in cancer genomes. However, the complex structure ...
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A lab-designed molecule developed and extensively studied by scientists with Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC could represent a breakthrough in slowing tumor recurrence in glioblastoma, an aggressive ...
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A pioneering biobattery has been shown to reduce tumor growth in the body and could hold the key to a new drug-free immunotherapy treatment in cancer patients.
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Researchers have uncovered that some childhood cancers have a substantially higher number of DNA changes than previously thought, changing the way we view children's tumors and possibly opening up new or repurposed treatment ...
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Recent research points to the potential utility of a familiar sounding foe–herpes virus–in the fight against cancer.
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Children are much more likely to survive cancer today than 50 years ago. Unfortunately, as adults, many of them develop cardiovascular disease, secondary cancers, or both, believed to result from the toxic effects of chemotherapy ...
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