Oncology & Cancer
Doctor's own diagnosis drives quest for a cancer cure
Christian Hinrichs knew his life had forever changed the day he thought he was pouring milk into a glass, but heard it splashing on the floor instead.
Mar 25, 2018
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News tagged with rare cancer
Genetics
Discovery may help to explain mystery of 'missing' genetic risk
A new study could help to answer an important riddle in our understanding of genetics: why research to look for the genetic causes of common diseases has failed to explain more than a fraction of the heritable risk of developing ...
Feb 13, 2014
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Genetics
Mutant models: Physics, statistics and genetics come together to reveal cancer's strategies
Nate Silver and Richard Feynman walk into a bar and bump into a biologist... While this may sound like the setup to some late-night nerd sketch, researchers have taken this premise and applied it to an increasingly cumbersome ...
Nov 2, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Gene involved in colorectal cancer also causes breast cancer
Rare mutations in the NTHL1 gene, previously associated with colorectal cancer, also cause breast cancer and other types of cancer. Researchers from Radboud university medical center, Leiden University Medical Center and ...
Feb 12, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
How the immune system can help us diagnose cancer
One of the deadliest forms of cancer is biliary tract cancer. Only one in three patients diagnosed with the disease is operable. The rest must settle for life-sustaining treatment.
Jul 27, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Finding the right target to prevent medulloblastoma relapse
When MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher Jezabel R. Blanco, Ph.D., began studying neurosciences, first as a graduate student and later as a postdoctoral fellow, her research was focused on understanding the mechanisms ...
Jul 21, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Why some cancers affect only young women
Among several forms of pancreatic cancer, one of them specifically affects women, often young. How is this possible, even though the pancreas is an organ with little exposure to sex hormones? This pancreatic cancer, known ...
Oct 19, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
New technique improves detection of cancer DNA in blood
A team led by researchers at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School has developed a new method to identify thousands of DNA mutations accurately and efficiently in a patient's ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Starving pancreatic cancer of cysteine may kill tumor cells
A new study from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center suggests a compound in development for a rare kidney stone disease may have potential against pancreatic cancer. ...
Apr 2, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
New technology to tackle treatment-resistant cancers
Free-flowing cancer cells have been mapped with unprecedented accuracy in the bloodstream of patients with prostate, breast and pancreatic cancer, using a brand new approach, in an attempt to assess and control the disease ...
Feb 3, 2012
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