Oncology & Cancer

Regenerating muscles after cancer surgery

Advancements in microsurgery are making it possible to harness the body's healing power to regenerate muscle strength after some cancer surgeries, particularly surgery to remove soft tissue sarcoma. Mayo Clinic orthopedic ...

Medical research

How viral infections associated with cancer become persistent

Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is one of the seven known viruses that causes cancer in humans and is responsible for Kaposi's sarcoma, a disease linked to immunosuppression mainly associated with AIDS. There ...

Medical research

New study advances understanding of rare sarcoma

Advancing the understanding of synovial sarcoma, a highly aggressive and rare cancer of young people, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered how an abnormal protein misdirects and disrupts the control ...

Oncology & Cancer

Immune cells hampered when fighting soft tissue and bone sarcomas

Aggregates of immune cells known as tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs), seen here within a tumor of the soft tissues known as a rhabdomyosarcoma, are major players in the immune system's fight against cancer. Johns Hopkins ...

Oncology & Cancer

New thesis on the childhood malignancy Ewing sarcoma

Asle Hesla from the group Orthopaedics will defend his thesis "Ewing Sarcoma—treatment, prognosis and late effects" on May 8th, 2020. Main Supervisor is Henrik Bauer.

page 5 from 16