Scientists have shown that therapies which combine heat and radiation have a different effect on lab-grown mini tumors than they do on lab-grown cancer cells grown in a more traditional way in a two-dimensional layer.
Jun 2, 2020
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A collection of papers published in Nature journals have transformed our understanding of how lung cancer evolves over time, in particular how the surrounding environment and immune system drives changes.
May 28, 2020
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Melanoma is a malignant tumour resulting from the transformation of melanocytes, the cells in the skin that undertake to synthesise melanin, a complex polymer which protects us from the negative effects of solar radiation. ...
May 27, 2020
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South Australian scientists have made a critical breakthrough, discovering how an obscure protein causes breast cancer to develop and grow more quickly.
May 26, 2020
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A new international Phase 3 clinical trial coordinated by Crick Senior Group Leader and Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, Charles Swanton, will use personalised detection tests to look for the earliest signs of relapse ...
May 26, 2020
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Adoptive T cell therapies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, which use genetically engineered killer immune T cells, are emerging forms of immunotherapy that redirect the immune system to target cancer.
May 19, 2020
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Tumours are not a uniform mass of cells. Colon cancers bear differentiated-like cells, similar to the functional cells of the intestinal wall, and pluripotent cells—the so-called tumour stem cells. The latter fuel tumour ...
May 12, 2020
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A wholistic tumour sampling method that more accurately detects genetic alterations in tumours, which are critical in allowing treatment to be personalised to each and every patient, has been developed by researchers from ...
May 5, 2020
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Growth hormone has been identified as playing a key role in reducing inflammation and increasing survival rates following liver surgery.
May 5, 2020
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Scientists have developed a new way to map the molecules on tumour cells that flag their presence to the immune system, according to a study published today in eLife.
Apr 21, 2020
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