Oncology & Cancer

Cancer 'signature' first step toward blood test for patients

A discovery by Melbourne researchers could help to identify patients with a particularly aggressive type of lung cancer that are likely to respond to immunotherapies currently used in the clinic to treat other cancers.

Oncology & Cancer

Antibody for fighting cancer emerges

While studying the underpinnings of multiple sclerosis, investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital came across important clues for how to treat a very different disease: cancer. In a paper published in Science Immunology, ...

Oncology & Cancer

Neurofibroma mouse model predicts response to therapy in humans

A mouse model predicted that inhibition of the enzyme MEK using targeted therapy may provide an effective, single-agent treatment for pediatric patients with neurofibroma, and early results from a phase I trial support this ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Promising new antibiotic targets potentially deadly gut infections

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a promising new antibiotic to treat potentially deadly gastrointestinal infections without harming the beneficial probiotic bacteria ...

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