Oncology & Cancer
Cancer patients vulnerable to depression, suicide
Cancer can be a devastating diagnosis, and now two new studies show these patients are at increased risk for anxiety, depression and suicide.
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Oncology & Cancer
Assessing the invasive and metastatic potential of cancer cells from a tissue section
Rac and Cdc42 are well-studied low molecular weight G proteins that regulate the ability of cancer cells to move, which is called their motility and invasive capacity. The more active these molecules are, the greater the ...
Mar 25, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Skin cancer cells use Alzheimer's protein to sabotage brain's immune defenses
Amyloid beta, a protein known to build-up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, also helps skin cancer cells thrive when they spread to the brain, a new study finds.
Mar 9, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
3D tissue model of living brain cancer points to possible future for drug screening
As a potential alternative for drug testing without lab animals, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology developed and successfully tested a 3D model of living brain cancer that surmounts one of the biggest challenges ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Neuroscience
New approach to traumatic brain injuries could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment
New research led by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust suggests that biochemical analysis of brain tissue could be used for diagnosis and prognosis of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) to improve ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Molecular treatment is able to control brain metastasis of different tumors
Mount Sinai researchers conducting clinical trials of a drug targeting a cancer gene found that it increased metastatic cancer patients' survival and was able to work within the brain, according to a study published in Clinical ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Immune cells leave fingerprints on tumors metastasized to the brain offering clues to future therapies
Using data from over 100,000 malignant and non-malignant cells from 15 human brain metastases, UCSF researchers have revealed two functional archetypes of metastatic cells across 7 different types of brain tumors, each containing ...
Feb 8, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Neural stem cell therapy may improve metastatic cancer survival
Neural stem cells (NSCs) engineered by Northwestern Medicine investigators used in combination with the HER2 inhibitor drug tucatinib improved survival in mice with HER2-positive breast cancer brain metastases, according ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Biden relaunches cancer 'moonshot' to halve death rate
President Joe Biden announced a relaunch of the government's cancer "moonshot" effort in a White House ceremony Wednesday, setting a goal of cutting the US death rate from the disease by half.
Feb 2, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Bursts of radiation and vesicles-based immunotherapy suppress brain cancer growth
Short bursts of radiation therapy dramatically enhanced the efficiency of targeting glioblastomas with natural nanoparticle-based immunotherapy, thus suppressing growth of the deadly tumor, inducing anti-tumor immunity and ...
Jan 31, 2022
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