More than half of patients diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) undergo biomarker testing, and this figure has increased over the last five years, reveal real-world data from a Spanish national registry ...
Mar 23, 2022
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Melanoma, a type of skin cancer, is often curable when detected and treated in its early stages. However, the disease can rapidly spread to other organs in the body and become deadly. According to the American Cancer Society, ...
Feb 17, 2022
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The detection and quantification of cancer-associated molecular biomarkers in body fluids, or liquid biopsies, prove minimally invasive in early cancer diagnostics. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Jan 28, 2022
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new biomarker to identify which patients with brain tumors called glioblastomas—the most common and malignant of primary brain tumors—might benefit from immunotherapy.
Nov 29, 2021
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A new batch of prognostic cancer biomarkers have been discovered in an area where few have gone looking before. Researchers have unveiled a catalog of 166 prognostic biomarkers, generated by analyzing long non-coding RNAs ...
Nov 15, 2021
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For the first time, the IASLC's Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee (SPFC) has accumulated molecular biomarker data to complement Tumor, Node, and Metastasis (TNM)-based prognostication. Results from the committee's ...
Sep 10, 2021
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Less than half of community oncologists surveyed indicated that they use biomarker testing to guide patient discussions compared to 73% of academic clinicians, according to a report issued today at the IASLC 2021 World ...
Sep 10, 2021
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A prognostic scoring system that is cheap, efficient and reliable can predict how patients with relapsed and/or metastatic head and neck cancer will respond to immunotherapy, new research has shown.
Jul 22, 2021
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A novel urine screening test that uses a protein, keratin 17 (K17), as a cancer biomarker reveals the test detects the presence of new or recurrent cases of bladder cancer. The methodology behind the test stems from research ...
Jun 4, 2021
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Researchers at UNSW Sydney have found a way to detect a very low amount of a cancer biomarker in undiluted blood in just 15 minutes, a result that could eventually play a key role in evaluating the effectiveness of cancer ...
May 17, 2021
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