An artificial intelligence (AI) tool—trained on roughly a million screening mammography images—identified breast cancer with approximately 90 percent accuracy when combined with analysis by radiologists, a new study finds.
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Some of the greatest insights into cancer and how to treat it come when basic scientists and cancer biologists and clinicians collaborate.
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Understanding the mechanisms that mediate widespread DNA damage in the cancer genome is of great interest to cancer physicians and scientists because it may lead to improved treatments and diagnosis. In this study, a multi-institutional ...
Oct 15, 2019
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The Griffith University scientists used CRISPR-Cas9 to successfully target and treat cervical cancer tumours in vivo (via injection into live and tumour-bearing mice) using "stealth" nanoparticles.
Oct 10, 2019
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New research in mice suggests that long-term exposure to vaping liquids that contain nicotine greatly increases the risk of cancer.
Oct 7, 2019
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USC researchers have successfully grown human, testosterone-producing cells in the lab, paving the way to someday treat low testosterone with personalized replacement cells.
Oct 7, 2019
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Certain fungi move from the gut to the pancreas, expand their population more than a thousand-fold, and encourage pancreatic cancer growth, a new study finds.
Oct 2, 2019
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Whole genome sequencing of tumour cells could help predict the prognosis of a patient's cancer and offer clues to identify the most effective treatment, suggests an international study published today in Nature Medicine.
Sep 30, 2019
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A new study, published in Aging Cell, has found that human ageing processes may hinder cancer development.
Sep 27, 2019
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DNA "echoes" of viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago could help the immune system to identify and kill cancer cells, according to new research from Crick scientists.
Sep 20, 2019
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