A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, "clinically meaningful" activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumors that carried a rare genetic mutation, according to a clinical trial report by ...
Nov 25, 2021
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Breast cancers that have an overactive PI3K enzyme, involved in cell growth and division, tend to be more aggressive and to spread and divide more like stem cells. But a new study by Ralitsa Madsen of University College London ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Oncotarget has published a report that aerobic exercise is receiving increased recognition in oncology for its multiple purported benefits.
Nov 10, 2021
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Cancer is a difficult disease to treat and to study, and can be caused by a range of genetic mutations. For instance, the mutated RAS gene causes a loss of structure in so-called epithelial tissue, a tissue type that lines ...
Nov 9, 2021
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Many patients with prostate cancer are treated with drugs that lower or block hormones that fuel tumor growth. While the drugs are effective for a time, most patients eventually develop resistance to these therapies.
Nov 5, 2021
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Stress can have a significant negative effect on health, but our understanding of how stress impacts the development and progression of cancer is just beginning. A team from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Stromal cells are the healthy cells which get drawn into cancer and can facilitate progression of the disease. In this current study, a team of researchers from the School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, led by Dr. James ...
Nov 4, 2021
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In a breakthrough for the treatment of aggressive solid cancers, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a novel cancer therapy that targets proteins inside cancer cells that are essential ...
Nov 3, 2021
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For the first time, researchers at the University of Gothenburg have shown that metastases in patients with malignant melanoma gain access to the circulatory system not only through the outgrowth of new blood vessel branches, ...
Oct 27, 2021
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In recent years, there has been some evidence that dietary interventions can help to slow the growth of tumors. A new study from MIT, which analyzed two different diets in mice, reveals how those diets affect cancer cells, ...
Oct 20, 2021
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