Obesity and cancer risk have a mysterious relationship, with obesity increasing the risk for 13 types of cancer. For some cancers—including pediatric cancers—obesity affects survival rates, which are lower for people ...
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A landmark paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine describes the results from a global trial across 148 sites in 23 countries, showing a 30 percent improvement in survival in patients with acute myeloid ...
Dec 23, 2020
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Cancer cells have an abnormal cell division and survival machinery - they grow faster than they die. For their permanent development, they produce an excess of growth factors and nutrients and block the body's own safety ...
May 17, 2016
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A new editorial paper titled "Decoding the mechanism behind MCL-1 inhibitors: A pathway to understanding MCL-1 protein stability" has been published in Oncotarget.
Jun 28, 2023
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Several new targeted therapies have shown promise against advanced cancers of the blood, lungs, ovaries, and thyroid, according to research released Saturday at a major US cancer conference.
May 31, 2014
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Taking a leukemia chemotherapy drug may help breast cancer patients who don't respond to tamoxifen overcome resistance to the widely-used drug, new research from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson suggests.
Aug 1, 2011
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Doctors who treat children with the most common form of childhood cancer – acute lymphoblastic leukemia – are often baffled at how sometimes the cancer cells survive their best efforts and the most powerful modern ...
May 18, 2011
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Building a new precision cancer treatment comes with no shortage of scientific challenges. Now, a group of University of Florida researchers have made a significant discovery in the effort to develop potent, highly targeted ...
Feb 20, 2023
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Drug resistance is a major obstacle in cancer treatment—leading to relapse for many patients. In a new study, published online April 20, 2020, in Nature Cell Biology, researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, ...
Apr 21, 2020
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What if a failed leukemia drug could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease? A team at the University of Kentucky recently led an effort to investigate this hypothesis. Their results were published today in the journal, Human ...
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