Acupuncture may help ease the severe nerve pain associated with certain cancer drugs, suggests a small preliminary study published in Acupuncture in Medicine.
Dec 6, 2011
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A preclinical study conducted at the Institute of Oncology Research (IOR, affiliated to USI Università dellaSvizzera italiana) reveals the role of aging cells in the formation of metastases and identifies a drug capable ...
Nov 13, 2020
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Over the past 20 years, our knowledge of hereditary diseases has taken a quantum leap, and several hereditary gene variants have been found that may predispose to the development of cancer. We have known for a long time that ...
May 14, 2020
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Lidocaine—often used as a numbing agent for outpatient medical procedures—activates certain bitter taste receptors through two unique mechanisms that result in cancer cell death, according to researchers from the Perelman ...
Nov 22, 2023
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia have helped develop a new blood test to detect prostate cancer with greater accuracy than current methods.
Feb 8, 2023
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If you're a person who gets breast exams, listen up. According to new guidance from medical experts, routine mammograms should now begin at 40 years old—10 years earlier than previously recommended.
May 15, 2023
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A unique collection of tissue samples donated by people with chronic myeloid leukemia was the driving force behind the discovery of a potentially major new treatment approach for drug-resistant leukemia. As published this ...
Dec 21, 2021
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BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, developed single-cell genome sequencing technology and published two research papers for cancer single-cell sequencing in the research journal Cell. In the papers, which were ...
Mar 2, 2012
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Myeloid immune cells kill cancer cells by eating them but cancer cells prevent this from happening by giving out a 'do not eat me' signal. Led by immunologists Ton Schumacher (Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode) and ...
Mar 5, 2019
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Next time you make a salad, you might want to consider adding mushrooms to it. That's because higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer, according to a new Penn State study, published on March ...
Apr 21, 2021
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