Oncology & Cancer
New drug therapy slows spread of pancreatic cancer: study
For people diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, the outlook is about as grim as it gets: the average patient won't live longer than a year.
Jun 3, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
A new method to select the right treatment for advanced prostate cancer
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified blood-based biomarkers that may determine which patients will benefit from continued hormonal therapy for advanced prostate cancer. The results are published ...
May 3, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
New technique may improve detection and treatment of advanced brain cancer
In a new study, Yale Cancer Center scientists have demonstrated a powerful method to analyze how tumor cells are altered as they metastasize, or spread, to the brain. The research, published in the journal Cell Reports, may ...
Apr 30, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
'Jumping genes' drive many cancers
Mistakes in DNA are known to drive cancer growth. But a new study, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, heavily implicates a genetic phenomenon commonly known as "jumping genes" in the growth of tumors.
Apr 1, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers develop modular approach to engineering immune cells
Yale researchers have developed a new way to efficiently engineer immune cells, an advance which enhances the ability to fend off cancer and other diseases, they report in the Feb. 25 issue of the journal Nature Methods.
Feb 26, 2019
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Genetics
Gene therapy blocks peripheral nerve damage in mice
Nerve axons serve as the wiring of the nervous system, sending electrical signals that control movement and sense of touch. When axons are damaged, whether by injury or as a side effect of certain drugs, a program is triggered ...
Jan 17, 2019
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Medical research
How the Tasmanian devil inspired researchers to create 'safe cell' therapies
A contagious facial cancer that has ravaged Tasmanian devils in southern Australia isn't the first place one would look to find the key to advancing cell therapies in humans.
Nov 15, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Gene signature discovery may predict response to immune therapy
Scientists led by Dr. Daniel De Carvalho at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have discovered a gene signature biomarker that may predict which patients will respond—or not—to immune therapy.
Nov 8, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Single-cell analysis reveals how melanoma cells resist immunotherapy
Unleashing the immune system to fight tumors—an approach enabled by immunotherapy—has led to remarkable outcomes in some cancer patients, but in many more, cancer cells evade the treatment and continue to spread. Now, ...
Nov 2, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Viral gene therapy could improve results from breast reconstruction after cancer treatment
A new type of gene therapy delivered using a virus could protect healthy tissues from the harmful side-effects of radiotherapy after cancer treatment, a new study reports.
Jan 24, 2018
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