Oncology & Cancer
Consumer Health: Understanding thyroid cancer risk
January is Thyroid Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about thyroid cancer risk factors.
Jan 26, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
New meta-analysis may help guide treatment planning for patients with high-risk prostate cancer
Results of a large study led by UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers could help guide treatment planning for patients with high-risk prostate cancer.
Jan 20, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Clinical score can guide PRRT therapy decisions for neuroendocrine tumors
Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with lutetium dotatate is a treatment for well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved in 2018, but clinicians have lacked a metric ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Increased survival rate in prostate cancer patients with addition of hormone therapy treatments
Prostate cancer is the leading cause of cancer in men worldwide, and radiotherapy is one of the common forms of treatment. In a first-of-its kind meta-analysis, published today in The Lancet Oncology, researchers from University ...
Jan 18, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Immunotherapy combination may benefit patients with non-small cell lung cancer resistant to single immunotherapy
A combination of two drugs that open the floodgates to an immune system attack on cancer curtailed tumor growth in some patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that was resistant to a single immunotherapy agent, ...
Jan 17, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Clinical guideline on external beam radiation therapy for primary liver cancers released
A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides guidance on the use of radiation therapy to treat adult patients with primary liver cancers using external beam radiation therapy ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Using artificial intelligence to help cancer patients avoid excessive radiation
A Case Western Reserve University-led team of scientists has used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify which patients with certain head and neck cancers would benefit from reducing the intensity of treatments such as ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
How oral cancer acquires radioresistance
A research group led by Associate Professor Ryoji Yoshida and Professor Hideki Nakayama from the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Kumamoto University (Japan) has analyzed the extracellular vesicles (EVs) of ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Doctors co-author first international consensus statement on cardio-oncology
The first multidisciplinary international consensus statement on radiation therapy in Cardio-Oncology, an emerging field of medicine examining treatment-induced cardiovascular risk, has been published in the Journal of the ...
Dec 13, 2021
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Immunology
Adding single type of bacteria to gut microbiome boosted anti-tumor immunity in mice
A bacterium common in the mouse gut microbiome can charge up the immune system to fight cancer cells in the colon, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report today in the journal Immunity.
Dec 2, 2021
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