Oncology & Cancer
New therapy targets breast cancer metastases in brain
When breast cancer spreads to the brain, the prognosis is grim. Patients only have about six months to live.
Aug 26, 2020
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Phase 3 eXalt3 study shows significantly longer progression-free survival
Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) carrying anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene alterations who received ensartinib experienced substantially longer progression-free survival than a matched group of patients ...
Aug 8, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Novel radiotracer advantageous for imaging of neuroendocrine tumor patients
For neuroendocrine cancer patients with liver metastases, a new radiopharmaceutical, 68Ga-DOTA-JR11, has shown excellent imaging performance in tumor detection, staging and restaging, providing important information to guide ...
Jun 25, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Largest ever study of radiosurgery for brain metastases from small cell lung cancer
The international First-line Radiosurgery for Small-Cell Lung Cancer (FIRE-SCLC) analysis led by University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers and published today in JAMA Oncology details clinical outcomes for 710 patients ...
Jun 5, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Lymph node metastases form through a wider evolutionary bottleneck than distant metastases
The evolutionary processes underlying metastasis-the development of secondary malignant growths away from the primary tumor site-in human patients are still incompletely understood.
May 26, 2020
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Neuroscience
Does fluorescent marking facilitate the surgical removal of tumors?
Two-thirds of brain metastases give off fluorescence following administration of 5-aminolevulinic acid, which could potentially assist surgeons in identifying such tumors. However, fluorescence patterns are often heterogeneous ...
May 19, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
First screening test for detecting lymph node metastasis in pancreatic cancer patients
For years, surgeons have operated on pancreatic cancer patients to remove what they thought was a localized tumor only to discover that the disease had spread to other, inoperable parts of the body. Now, a City of Hope molecular ...
May 18, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Hippocampal avoidance during WBRT reduces risks in oncology trial
Results from the NRG Oncology clinical study NRG-CC001 concluded that lowering radiotherapy dose to hippocampal stem cells improves cognitive and patient-reported outcomes for patients with brain metastases. These findings ...
Feb 18, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Gene expression pattern pinpoints high-risk colorectal cancer
A new technique could dramatically reduce the number of colorectal cancer patients who unnecessarily undergo major surgery to remove tumors, instead of a minimally invasive procedure.
Jan 24, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Study suggests new strategies against bone metastases from prostate cancer
When prostate cancer spreads, it most often spreads to bone. And while the 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer that has not spread is nearly 100 percent, once the disease reaches bone, the 5-year survival rate is only ...
Dec 2, 2019
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