Olaparib (Lynparza), a targeted cancer drug, has been approved for hundreds of patients with certain breast cancers and prostate cancers in England.
Apr 11, 2023
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Lung cancer is a leading cause of death in Japan and across the globe. Among all the cancers, lung cancer has one of the lowest five-year survival rates. Smoking tobacco and using tobacco-based products is known to heavily ...
Dec 28, 2022
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Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with Artios, have identified how an enzyme involved in DNA repair (POLQ), becomes vital to the survival of certain cancers, if the cancer cells lose the ability ...
Nov 30, 2022
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BRCA1 (BReast CAncer Gene 1), a key gene that becomes faulty in some instances, leading to breast and ovarian cancer, plays an important role in the body's DNA repair mechanisms. BRCA1, once mutated, can cause cancer to develop. ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Immunotherapy, a biotherapy that boosts the ability of the immune system to recognize and attack mutant tumor cells, has transformed the treatment landscape for patients battling cancer, which emerges from the progressive ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Scientists have shown how stomach cancers can dodge the effects of a promising new experimental treatment—raising the possibility of outsmarting cancer by predicting drug resistance in advance.
Oct 25, 2022
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A new study by researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT provides evidence from both mouse models and postmortem human tissue of a direct link between two problems that emerge in Alzheimer's disease: ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a gene marker that may lead to a more effective, precision treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The researcher's findings are published ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Every cell has two mechanisms for repairing DNA single- or double-strand breaks, which can be induced by such factors as environmental toxins, chemotherapy, or ionizing radiation. The first one consists of the DNA repair ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Researchers have uncovered a novel pathway that explains how cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapies, which in turn offers a potential solution for preventing chemo-resistance.
Sep 20, 2022
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