A study published in The Journal of Pathology reveals that many cancers that carry a poor prognosis express an altered form of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), an enzyme that regulates the expression of multiple ...
Mar 21, 2022
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Leptomeningeal disease is a rare complication of several different types of cancer, including melanoma. It occurs when tumor cells migrate to the cerebrospinal fluid and the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal column ...
Mar 8, 2022
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Pancreatic carcinoma is a tumor with an extremely poor prognosis for which effective treatments have not yet been found. In a preclinical animal model with mice, a team of researchers has now discovered a way of making pancreatic ...
Feb 4, 2022
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Conversations with stroke survivors and their loved ones about possible lasting impairment can be traumatic, but there's also potential for them to be therapeutic, according to research from The University of Queensland.
Feb 1, 2022
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In future, newly identified biomarkers could be used alongside imaging techniques for the non-invasive diagnosis of patients with advanced prostate cancer. A research team from the Medical University of Vienna and the Ludwig ...
Jan 21, 2022
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Sonodynamic therapy uses ultrasound in combination with drugs to release harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS) at the site of a tumor. However, the treatment isn't very effective because cancer cells can activate antioxidant ...
Dec 8, 2021
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The use of multigene sequencing as a therapeutic decision tool improved the outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer when the genomic alterations identified were ranked in the I/II tiers of the ESMO Scale for Clinical ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Despite nearly two million people dying of acute kidney injury every year, and tens of millions more needing treatment, no effective drug treatment for the condition is available. Furthermore, most acute kidney injury patients ...
Dec 7, 2021
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One factor that limits the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures is the number of viable embryos available for implantation in the uterus. A study published November 18 in the American Journal of Human Genetics ...
Nov 18, 2021
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), along with collaborators, have identified potential blood-based biomarkers to predict disease progression and survival times in those with late-stage brain tumors.
Nov 18, 2021
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