Oncology & Cancer
Researcher fighting breast cancer with light therapy
When treatment is working for a patient who is fighting cancer, the light at the end of the tunnel is easier to see.
Oct 17, 2018
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News tagged with metastasis
Oncology & Cancer
New cellular target may put the brakes on cancer's ability to spread
A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has discovered a biochemical signaling process that causes densely packed cancer cells to break away from a tumor and spread the disease elsewhere in the body. In their study, published ...
May 26, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Tapeworm drug inhibits colon cancer metastasis
A compound that for about 60 years has been used as a drug against tapeworm infection is also apparently effective against colon cancer metastasis, as studies using mice have now shown. The compound silences a gene that triggers ...
Jun 17, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
Four new drugs will change prostate cancer care
After a decade and a half of near stagnation, four new drugs could help make advanced prostate cancer a chronic illness instead of a terminal disease, a leading Colorado prostate cancer expert says.
Feb 16, 2012
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Neuroscience
Brain cell migration during normal development may offer insight on how cancer cells spread
By shedding new light on how cells migrate in the developing brain, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center also may have found a new mechanism by which other types of cells, including cancer cells, travel within ...
Apr 24, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers inhibit cancer metastases via novel steps
In one of the first successes of its kind, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and six other institutions have inhibited the spreading of cancer cells from one part of the body to another. ...
Feb 12, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Fat cells in abdomen fuel spread of ovarian cancer
A large pad of fat cells that extends from the stomach and covers the intestines provides nutrients that promote the spread and growth of ovarian cancer, reports a research team based at the University of Chicago in the journal ...
Oct 30, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
Breakthrough in understanding of how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments
Scientists have discovered that cancer cells "hijack" a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body, completely changing current ways of thinking around cancer metastasis.
Sep 29, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Research discovers non–toxic cancer treatment
(Medical Xpress)—A University of Queensland researcher is developing a "Trojan horse" non-toxic treatment for human breast cancer.
Jan 23, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Preclinical study: Three-step treatment strategy for pancreatic cancer
Research led by investigators at Cedars-Sinai Cancer and Johns Hopkins University have discovered a novel three-step treatment that disrupts the pancreatic tumor microenvironment in laboratory mice.
Jul 11, 2022
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