Medications

How drugs can target the thick 'scar tissue' of pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers—only about one in eight patients survives five years after diagnosis. Those dismal statistics are in part due to the thick, nearly impenetrable wall of fibrosis, or scar ...

Oncology & Cancer

Incidence of local-stage cancers decreased from 2019 to 2022: Study

From 2019 to 2020, the incidence of local-stage disease decreased significantly for 19 of 22 cancer types compared with stable year-over-year changes pre-COVID-19, according to a study published online Nov. 16 in the International ...

Oncology & Cancer

The role of the epigenome in cancer revealed in new study

For decades, scientists have been sequencing the DNA of many cancer types, identifying errors in the genetic code to help understand the formation of tumors, how they grow and what leads to their spread. But sometimes cancer ...

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