I am 48 and am being treated for metastatic breast cancer. Despite my diagnosis, I live a fairly normal life, am physically active and strive to optimize my health from a noncancer standpoint. An acquaintance who works in ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Aspirin is an inexpensive and readily available medication that could benefit cancer treatments, preventing metastatic cancer spread and reducing vascular complications, finds a new meta-analysis study.
Dec 4, 2023
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Levels of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detected in a blood test are correlated with the size of ovarian cancers and can predict a patient's response to treatment or time to disease progression, according to a retrospective ...
Dec 20, 2016
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Cancer therapies that cut off blood supply to a tumour could be more effective in combination with existing chemotherapeutic drugs—according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
May 25, 2018
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For patients with some hard-to-treat blood cancers, a simple "off-the-shelf" immunotherapy is achieving promising results.
Apr 7, 2021
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Researchers at Texas A&M University are pushing organ-on-a-chip devices to new levels that could change the way clinicians approach cancer treatment, particularly ovarian cancer. A team has recently submitted a patent disclosure ...
Jul 23, 2021
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An international team has developed statistical models to predict the risk of early death in patients being treated with non-intensive therapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Results of analyses using the models will ...
Dec 12, 2021
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'Prehab' exercise may boost the impact of chemotherapy given to patients with cancer of the food pipe (oesophagus) to shrink their tumour (s) before surgery, reveals the first study of its kind, published online in the British ...
Feb 1, 2022
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Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by Dr. Manuel Valiente, have uncovered how cancer cells that have spread to the brain (metastasis) are able to resist the effects of radiotherapy. The ...
Apr 11, 2022
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The Lundquist Institute spinoff start-up company Vitalex Biosciences, founded by researcher Dr. Ashraf Ibrahim, is producing an antibody that stems the spread of mucormycosis, a deadly fungal infection with an overall mortality ...
May 17, 2021
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