Cambridge scientists have created a comprehensive tool for predicting an individual's risk of developing prostate cancer, which they say could help ensure that those men at greatest risk will receive the appropriate testing ...
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In screening for prostate cancer, the risk of overdiagnosis can be halved, a University of Gothenburg study shows. With the proposed diagnostic pathway, considerably fewer harmless tumors are found. This solves a big problem ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Prostate cancer constitutes an essential public health issue, as it is a major cause of male deaths. Early detection through an organized testing program with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test and systematic biopsy ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Australia must "expand the implementation of pharmacogenomic screening to elevate the quality of care we offer to patients, on par with or better than international standards," according to the authors of a Perspective published ...
Nov 14, 2022
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For patients with solitary metastases from prostate cancer, an approach called metastasis-directed therapy (MDT)—focused treatment using surgery or radiation therapy, without androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)—can slow ...
Nov 10, 2022
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Tapping into the Million Veteran Program, an ongoing national research effort to learn how genes, lifestyle and military exposures affect the health of participants, researchers at University of California San Diego School ...
Oct 31, 2022
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A new approach to cancer immunotherapy that uses one type of immune cell to kill another—rather than directly attacking the cancer—provokes a robust anti-tumor immune response that shrinks ovarian, lung, and pancreatic ...
Oct 25, 2022
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An international team of researchers has developed a way to modify the CAR T engineering process to create cells that can assist in fighting fungal infections in the lungs. In their paper published in the journal Science ...
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. While many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain localized, other types are aggressive and spread quickly. That's why Dr. Carlos Vargas, a Mayo Clinic radiation ...
Sep 19, 2022
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The billions of immune cells that help protect us from diseases do amazing things, but sometimes they need a little boost. For decades, scientists have been trying to figure out ways to engineer living immune cells to better ...
Sep 10, 2022
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