A liquid biopsy-based multicancer early detection (MCED) test could detect 12 types of cancers, including low DNA-shedding cancers and early-stage cancers, according to data from a retrospective study presented at the AACR ...
Apr 17, 2023
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An experimental blood test may be able to catch a dozen different types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy—including some that are particularly tricky to detect, a preliminary study suggests.
Apr 17, 2023
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Knowing whether a tumor might grow or spread to other parts of a patient's body could be key to survival—and now scientists are one step closer to unlocking the ability to predict just that.
Apr 13, 2023
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An international coalition of biomedical researchers co-led by Alexander Bick, MD, Ph.D., at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has determined a new way to measure the growth rate of precancerous clones of blood stem cells ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) lesions were detected in a majority of healthy pancreases from deceased donors of diverse age and harbored features of pancreatic cancer, according to a study published in Cancer ...
Apr 6, 2023
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Contrary to previous beliefs, stem cells, from which all new blood cells are formed, remain in bone marrow in the blood cancer type acute lymphocytic leukemia. This disease, however, causes a hidden defect in the stem cells ...
Apr 5, 2023
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A therapy that bolsters the immune system may not only help certain cancer patients live longer, but better, a new study finds.
Apr 5, 2023
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Experts recommend reducing consumption of added ("free") sugars to around six teaspoons a day and limiting sugar-sweetened drinks to less than one serving a week after a comprehensive evidence review published by The BMJ ...
Apr 5, 2023
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a new method for targeting tumors with cancer drugs by exploiting the clotting propensity of blood platelets.
Mar 30, 2023
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Researchers have found that, despite being heavily immunocompromised, hematology patients generate strong cellular immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 after vaccination, on par with that of healthy individuals.
Mar 29, 2023
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