Breast cancer is resistant to immunotherapies; therefore, bioengineers and oncologists seek to develop a slew of therapeutic strategies to overcome this challenge. In a new report in Science Advances, Kerui Wu and colleagues ...
One of the most puzzling—and devastating—aspects of cancer is its potentially lethal wanderlust, the spread of the disease from a primary tumor to a new and distant site.
Researchers at the Vancouver Prostate Center have developed a new blood test that provides unprecedented insight into a patient's cancer make-up, potentially allowing doctors to better select treatment options that will improve ...
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Cancer cells are more than a lump of cells growing out of control; they participate in active combat with the immune system for their own survival. Being able to evade the immune system is a hallmark of cancer. Cancer cells ...
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Biologists at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered that low oxygen conditions, which often persist inside tumors, are sufficient to initiate a molecular chain of events that transforms breast cancer cells from being ...
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MIT cancer biologists have identified a genetic change that makes lung tumors more likely to spread to other parts of the body. The findings, to be published in the April 6 online issue of Nature, offers new insight into ...
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Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have identified a promising new combination therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer that enhances the effectiveness of existing treatment while reducing harmful side ...
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Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer should be treated primarily with second-generation hormone drugs, which offer better treatment response and longer life expectancy than chemotherapy. However, the effect ...
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Contrary to how tumors operate while still in the kidney, metastatic kidney cancers rely heavily on mitochondrial metabolism, according to research from Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) ...
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A treatment for metastatic cancer—researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the University of Innsbruck, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Universität Würzburg have now ...
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