Medical research
Researchers show how cancer cells resist chemotherapy
A study in human cell lines reveals cancer cells can activate a force-generating mechanism to survive a cancer therapy.
Oct 24, 2023
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News tagged with drug therapies
Oncology & Cancer
Drug mechanism opens door for new anti-cancer immunotherapies
Researchers have revealed a new mechanism of targeted drug treatment used against chronic lymphocytic leukemia, through the promotion of immune cell function, that could be exploited using new anti-cancer immunotherapies.
Oct 19, 2023
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Medical research
CAR T-cell therapy effective in patients with blood cancer regardless of race: Study
Patients with multiple myeloma treated with idecabtagene vicleucel, known as "ide-cel," a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, had no difference in overall survival outcomes regardless of race and ethnicity, according ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Medical research
Promising new options for treating aggressive prostate cancer
Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have identified two promising new treatment options for men with recurrent prostate cancer—both of which helped patients live longer without their disease progressing than the current standard ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Nearly half of oncology drugs approved since 1998 are precision therapies
Of the 198 new oncology drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 1998 and 2022, approximately 43% were precision oncology therapies, the use of which is guided by biomarker testing.
Oct 18, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Human lung chip leveraged to faithfully model radiation-induced lung injury
The lung is one of the tissues most sensitive to radiation in the human body. People exposed to high radiation doses following nuclear incidents develop radiation-induced lung injury (RILI), which affects the function of ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Inflammatory breast cancer is rare but aggressive: Know the signs
Inflammatory breast cancer is rare, but it's aggressive, fast-growing and hard to detect early, so it's important to know the warning signs.
Oct 16, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
PET imaging validates use of common cholesterol drug to enhance HER2-targeted cancer therapy
A novel therapeutic approach that combines human epidermal growth receptor factor 2 (HER2)-targeted therapies with the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin can reduce the number of cancer treatments required to prevent tumor ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Medical research
Restoring nerve-muscle connections boosts strength of aging mice, study finds
A small molecule previously shown to enhance strength in injured or old laboratory mice does so by restoring lost connections between nerves and muscle fibers, Stanford Medicine researchers have found.
Oct 12, 2023
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Neuroscience
Regenerative cell therapy for epilepsy
Together with colleagues, veterinarian and neuroscientist Sonja Bröer has researched how regenerative cell therapies can contribute to curing or alleviating epilepsy. The work was carried out at biotechnology start-up Neurona ...
Oct 6, 2023
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