One of the hallmarks of cancer cell development is its dependence on sugar, especially glucose, to grow and divide. Scientists have long been studying how to restrict or block this process that promotes tumor growth, called ...
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Pancreatic cancers are among the most aggressive, deadly tumor types, and for years, researchers have struggled to develop effective drugs against the tumors. Now, Salk Institute researchers have identified a new set of molecules ...
Sep 6, 2023
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Many cancer therapies do not produce the hoped-for results. A common reason for this is that the tumors develop resistance to the medications. This is the case, for example, with alpelisib, a drug that has been approved for ...
Apr 11, 2023
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Yale researchers have made a discovery that changes conventional thinking about the role that oxygen plays in the growth of tumors—an area of cancer research that has been intensely studied in recent years.
Dec 14, 2022
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A new biodegradable gel improves the immune system's ability to keep cancer at bay after tumors are surgically removed.
Apr 6, 2022
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Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have successfully leveraged an FDA-approved drug to halt growth of tumors driven by mutations in the RAS gene, which are famously difficult to treat and account ...
Mar 9, 2022
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For the first time, researchers at the University of Gothenburg have shown that metastases in patients with malignant melanoma gain access to the circulatory system not only through the outgrowth of new blood vessel branches, ...
Oct 27, 2021
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In recent years, there has been some evidence that dietary interventions can help to slow the growth of tumors. A new study from MIT, which analyzed two different diets in mice, reveals how those diets affect cancer cells, ...
Oct 20, 2021
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A new precision drug which stops cancer from repairing its DNA has shown promise in an early-stage clinical trial—highlighting the potential of a new class of drugs known as ATR inhibitors.
Sep 29, 2020
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A study has revealed that tumors can evade the immune system by telling immune cells to produce immunosuppressive steroids. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, ...
Jul 30, 2020
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