A retrospective study led by Northwestern Medicine investigators found that the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy drug tisagenlecleucel demonstrated safety and efficacy in pediatric patients with relapsed ...
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Radiation treatment is one of the most frequently used therapies against cancer. However, despite its long and wide-ranging use, radiation therapy tends to be more of a one size fits all treatment with little regard to the ...
Oct 18, 2021
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In an animal study published Oct. 1, 2021, in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have provided evidence that treating spinal tumors with "fractionated" ...
Oct 8, 2021
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New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that radiation therapy can reprogram heart muscle cells to what appears to be a younger state, fixing electrical problems that cause a life-threatening ...
Sep 24, 2021
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Bruce Haffty, MD, MS, chair of Radiation Oncology and associate vice chancellor for Cancer Programs at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and system director of Radiation Oncology at RWJBarnabas Health, treated a breast ...
Sep 22, 2021
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Radiation therapy is an effective and widely used treatment for breast cancer. While the benefits of radiation therapy for breast cancer are clear, long-term complications related to radiation therapy may occur. According ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Image-guided radiation therapy has evolved to include the ability to track tumors in real time during treatment. It's improving cure rates and limiting side effects for a growing number of cancer patients.
Sep 16, 2021
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McGill University researchers identify proteins that drive cancer stem cells. Targeting and supressing a particular protein called galectin1 could provide a more effective treatment for glioblastoma, in combination with radiation ...
Aug 31, 2021
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A Cedars-Sinai cancer study finds that intestinal fungi and bacteria play opposing roles in regulating the efficacy of the anti-tumor immune response following radiation therapy.
Aug 24, 2021
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Nearly half of men initially managed with active surveillance for "low-risk" prostate cancer transition to definitive treatment – such as surgery or radiation therapy—within a few years after diagnosis, reports a study ...
Aug 20, 2021
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