Cisplatin is a chemotherapy indicated to fight tumors in many types of cancer. However, it does have major side effects—especially kidney toxicity, that can lead to acute kidney failure.
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Among patients with kidney cancer, the activity of four specific genes in the cancer cells seems to be able to predict the risk of the tumor spreading and the patient's chances of survival. This is shown by researchers from ...
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Expected to be diagnosed in 2% of men and 1% of women in the U.S., kidney cancer has traditionally been one of the most challenging cancers to treat. Until 2005, only one drug had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration ...
Oct 14, 2022
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A newly developed small-molecular radiopharmaceutical pair has successfully visualized and treated melanoma in a preclinical study, according to new research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging ...
Jun 15, 2022
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In cancer, there's a mistake in the hereditary material, the DNA, which causes uncontrollable growth of cells in the body. One in ten children with cancer has hereditary predisposition: a combination of DNA changes, spontaneous ...
Mar 1, 2022
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New research from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has shown how the tumor risk varies among patients with the genetic syndrome Beckwith-Wiedemann spectrum when compared with those who exhibit more "classic" symptoms ...
Dec 20, 2021
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How cancers metastasize remains poorly understood. The process begins when cancer cells break off from a tumor and invade blood and lymphatic vessels, the body's alleyways. But studying invasion—typically a microscopic ...
Oct 20, 2021
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In recent years, cancer immunotherapy has been effective in treating patients with immunogenic, or so-called "hot" tumors with increased levels of inflammation and the presence of immune cells in and around the tumors. Prostate ...
Jun 24, 2021
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The origins of seven types of kidney cancer, including several rare subtypes, have been identified by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Not all kidney cancers behave the same, with wildly different responses to immunotherapy or other treatments—and wildly different outcomes for patients as a result.
Jun 7, 2021
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