Oncology & Cancer
Overcoming a newly recognized form of resistance to modern prostate cancer drugs
Cancer cells have an uncanny ability to evolve and adapt to overcome the treatments used against them.
Jun 18, 2021
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News tagged with prostate tumors
Oncology & Cancer
A new way to target cancers using 'synthetic lethality'
With advances in genome sequencing, cancer treatments have increasingly sought to leverage the idea of "synthetic lethality," exploiting cancer-specific genetic defects to identify targets that are uniquely essential to the ...
Jul 27, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer-killing proteins destroy tumor cells in bloodstream
Cornell researchers have discovered potent cancer-killing proteins that can travel by white blood cells to kill tumors in the bloodstream of mice with metastatic prostate cancer. The breakthrough study will be published Feb. ...
Jan 12, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Drug triggers immune cells to attack prostate cancer
A single drug compound simultaneously attacks hard-to-treat prostate cancer on several fronts, according to a new study in mice and human cells. It triggers immune cells to attack, helps the immune cells penetrate the tumor, ...
Nov 23, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer patients vulnerable to depression, suicide
Cancer can be a devastating diagnosis, and now two new studies show these patients are at increased risk for anxiety, depression and suicide.
Mar 29, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Study shows how nerves drive prostate cancer
In a study in today's issue of Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore Medicine, report that certain nerves sustain prostate cancer growth by triggering a switch that causes tumor vessels ...
Oct 19, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Walnut diet slows tumor growth in mice
(Medical Xpress) -- Mice genetically programmed to develop prostate cancer had smaller, slower growing tumors if they consumed a diet containing walnuts, UC Davis researchers report in the current issue of the British Journal ...
Jan 25, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Testosterone therapy does not up prostate cancer incidence
(HealthDay) -- Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) appears to be safe and does not increase the incidence of prostate cancer, according to a study published online June 6 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Jun 15, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Tumors grown in the lab provide insights on rare prostate cancer
Growing miniature tumors from patient's cells in the laboratory may help scientists personalize treatments for those with a rare form of prostate cancer, according a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian ...
Jul 4, 2018
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Radiology & Imaging
AI performs as well as experienced radiologists in detecting prostate cancer
UCLA researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system to help radiologists improve their ability to diagnose prostate cancer. The system, called FocalNet, helps identify and predict the aggressiveness of the ...
Apr 16, 2019
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