(Medical Xpress)—Research from Columbia University Medical Center shows that nerves may play a critical role in stomach cancer growth and that blocking nerve signals using surgery or Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA) could be ...
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(Medical Xpress)—Gastric adenocarcinoma, a form of stomach cancer, is the second most common cause of death from cancer, accounting for 10 percent of all cancer deaths. The bacterium Helicobacter pylori, found in the gastric ...
Surgical removal of the tumor is considered the basis for curing gastric cancer. However, 40% of patients who have undergone surgery suffer a relapse within two years. A research team led by MedUni Vienna has now investigated ...
Jul 30, 2024
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Cancer's resistance to chemotherapy could be reversed by targeting lactate—the product that builds up as cancer cells convert nutrients to energy, according to new research published in Nature.
Jul 4, 2024
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A new study has discovered that a type of bacteria commonly found in the body, which usually does not pose problems for healthy people, plays a significant role in causing stomach cancer, the fifth most common cancer in the ...
Mar 18, 2024
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In a breakthrough study published in Cancer Cell, researchers have decoded critical genetic factors in intestinal metaplasia patients, shedding light on early signs and prevention strategies for stomach cancer—often a "ticking ...
Dec 11, 2023
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A new development in biomedical engineering has led to the creation of a human stomach micro-physiological system (hsMPS), representing a significant leap forward in understanding and treating various gastrointestinal diseases, ...
Sep 27, 2023
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A large case-control study by international researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan has found that people who carry certain genetic risk factors for gastric (stomach) cancer have a ...
Mar 29, 2023
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Early detection remains key to successfully treating many cancers, and early detection via cell-free DNA (cfDNA) circulating in the bloodstream—the so-called "liquid biopsy"—has become a research focal point. But using ...
Sep 29, 2022
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A modest cut of just 1 gram in daily salt intake could ward off nearly 9 million cases of heart disease and strokes and save 4 million lives by 2030, suggest the estimates of a modeling study published in the open access ...
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