Tumors are composed of rapidly multiplying cancer cells. Understanding which biochemical processes fuel their relentless growth can provide hints at therapeutic targets.
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The cancer gene MYC has been called the "Mount Everest" of cancer research because of the difficulty of designing medications that can disable it and the expectation that an effective MYC drug could help so many cancer patients. ...
May 24, 2023
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Weight gain in a man's late teens and 20s increases his risk of dying from prostate cancer later in life, research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Dublin, Ireland (May 17-20), suggests.
May 16, 2023
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Investigators at Cedars-Sinai Cancer found that fatty liver, a condition closely associated with obesity, promotes the spread of colorectal cancer to the liver. Their study, published today in the journal Cell Metabolism, ...
May 11, 2023
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Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common and second deadliest cancer. How colorectal cancer develops is not well understood, but a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reports in the Journal of Experimental ...
May 10, 2023
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Globally, human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related mortality. The worldwide incidences of HCC have been on the rise in recent decades. Unfortunately, ...
May 10, 2023
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A study has found that a mitochondrial disease in newborns shows cancer-like changes in proliferating cells, causing tissues to age prematurely. The finding is a significant step forward in understanding the syndrome and ...
May 3, 2023
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Pancreatic cancers are deadly and hard to treat, in part because they are so often detected at an advanced stage; overall five-year survival rates are about 11%. Two separate labs at Boston Children's Hospital took out-of-the-box ...
Apr 25, 2023
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A group of researchers led by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, has illustrated the mechanistic pathway for PTEN-deficient breast cancer and successfully tested a method of countering the downstream effects of immune ...
Medication delivered by a novel gel cured 100% of mice with an aggressive brain cancer, a striking result that offers new hope for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most common brain tumors in ...
Apr 24, 2023
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