The most aggressive type of prostate cancer, castration-resistant prostate cancer, can be treated via two therapies: taxanes or hormone treatment. Until recently, there were no comparative studies between the two, and the ...
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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, ...
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Biophysicists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have demonstrated that Raman microscopy can be used to detect the resistance of tumour cells to cancer drugs. Unlike conventional approaches, this method does not require any ...
Oct 26, 2018
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Cancer cells have evolved multiple escape strategies to circumvent the body's immune defenses, such as the attack by natural killer (NK) cells that normally kill abnormal cells by releasing cytotoxic products. While studying ...
Oct 24, 2018
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Breast cancer research has resulted in treatment that has greatly improved survival rates. As a result, there are 3.1 million breast cancer survivors alive in the United States today. The five-year survival rate is about ...
Oct 9, 2018
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While many cancer therapies initially can be very successful, tumors often return and spread when remaining cancer cells develop resistance to treatment. To combat this tendency, Frédéric Thomas of the French National Centre ...
Oct 2, 2018
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Scientists at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy have seen remarkable success combining tumor modulating nanoparticles with doxorubicin to enhance chemotherapy response in pre-clinical model breast ...
Oct 2, 2018
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When it comes to diet-induced obesity, your immune system is not always your friend.
Sep 14, 2018
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Chemists at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have discovered the use of a metal compound that inhibits the enzyme closely associated with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), one of the most difficult forms of breast ...
Aug 29, 2018
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Work just published in Cancer Research by Drs. Hugo Wurtele and Elliot Drobetsky (Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center- CIUSSS de l'Est-de-l'Île-de-Montréal and Université de Montréal) sheds new light on the ...
Aug 24, 2018
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