Oncology & Cancer
Small molecule plays a big role in reducing cancer's spread
One small molecule that helps regulate gene expression plays a big role in keeping us safe from the machinations of cancer, scientists report.
Jan 31, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Early clinical trial supports tumor cell-based vaccine for mantle cell lymphoma
A phase I/II clinical trial by researchers at Stanford University suggests that vaccines prepared from a patient's own tumor cells may prevent the incurable blood cancer mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) from returning after treatment. ...
Jun 19, 2020
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Medications
Enzalutamide shows survival benefit in men with metastatic prostate cancer
A combination of enzalutamide and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) significantly reduced the risk of metastatic progression or death over time in men with advanced prostate cancer, according to the results of clinical trial ...
Jul 30, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Drug overcomes chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer
An international research team, led by scientists from Mater Research—The University of Queensland, have discovered they can overcome chemotherapy resistance in an ovarian cancer subtype by using low doses of a drug which ...
Apr 16, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
The sneaky way estrogen drives brain metastasis in non-estrogen-dependent breast cancers
Triple-negative breast cancers are more likely than other breast cancer types to metastasize and are especially likely to go the brain in younger women. Researchers have tested various hypotheses to explain this danger. One ...
Mar 1, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer sequencing project identifies potential approaches to combat aggressive leukemia
Researchers have discovered that a subtype of leukemia characterized by a poor prognosis is fueled by mutations in pathways distinctly different from a seemingly similar leukemia associated with a much better outcome. The ...
Jan 11, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Study reveals why chemotherapy may be compromised in patients with pancreatic cancer
A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center may explain why chemotherapy drugs such as gemcitabine are not effective for many pancreatic cancer patients, and perhaps point to new approaches to treatment including ...
Nov 11, 2015
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Medications
Docetaxel use associated with significant reduction in prostate cancer death in very poor prognostic group
Men with high-grade prostate cancer and low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels have a poor prognosis. The question remains as to whether the chemotherapy drug docetaxel, which increases survival in metastatic prostate ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
New technique could make human T cells 100 times more potent at killing cancer cells
Scientists at the UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Northwestern Medicine may have found a way around the limitations of engineered T cells by borrowing a few tricks from cancer itself.
Feb 7, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Normalized post-op CEA may help predict colon cancer prognosis
(HealthDay)—Colon cancer patients with elevated preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels that normalize after resection are not at increased risk for poor prognosis, according to a study published online Dec. ...
Dec 26, 2017
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