Oncology & Cancer
Skipping mammograms raises a woman's odds for breast cancer death
(HealthDay)—Don't skip your breast cancer screening mammogram.
Mar 2, 2021
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Radiology & Imaging
What to do when a mammogram shows swollen lymph nodes in women just vaccinated for COVID
Swelling of lymph nodes in the armpit area is a normal response to COVID-19 vaccinations, but when they are seen on mammograms, they can be mistaken for nodes that are swollen because of cancer. In some cases, the nodes are ...
Feb 24, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Screening mammograms and COVID-19 vaccine
Reports of some patients developing swollen lymph nodes after a COVID-19 vaccination has raised questions about whether screening mammograms should be rescheduled due to concerns that this finding could be mistaken for a ...
Feb 23, 2021
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Medical research
Phase I clinical trial shows promise of adipose-derived stem cells in treating lymphedema
Can stem cells alleviate lymphedema, a chronic debilitating condition affecting up to one in three women treated for breast cancer? Results of a phase I clinical trial released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) ...
Feb 18, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
COVID vaccine reaction can mimic breast cancer symptoms, but doctors say 'don't panic'
(HealthDay)—One side effect of COVID-19 vaccination is creating undue fear among women, causing them to worry that they might have breast cancer.
Feb 11, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Singles or pairs in cancer cells: The role of the CXCR4 receptor
It all sounds similar to a dance event—but are singles or couples dancing here? This was the question Ali Isbilir and Dr. Paolo Annibale at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) ...
Jan 29, 2021
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Neuroscience
How does the immune system keep tabs on the brain?
Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, autism, schizophrenia and many other neurological and psychiatric conditions have been linked to inflammation in the brain. There's growing evidence that immune cells and molecules ...
Jan 27, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Rhesus macaques develop promising immune response to SARS-CoV-2
In a promising result for the success of vaccines against COVID-19, rhesus macaque monkeys infected with the human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 developed protective immune responses that might be reproduced with a vaccine. The ...
Jan 22, 2021
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Neuroscience
Cellular connections found between nervous and immune systems
The nervous and immune systems have long been thought to be separate entities in the body, but new research has uncovered a direct cellular interaction between the two. Scientists from Harvard Medical School, the Broad Institute ...
Dec 17, 2020
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Immunology
How the immune system remembers viruses: Memory T cells are formed earlier than previously thought
For a person to acquire immunity to a disease, T cells must develop into memory cells after contact with the pathogen. Until now, the number of cells that do this was believed to depend above all on the magnitude of the initial ...
Nov 2, 2020
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