Genetics
Breakthrough in understanding rare genetic skin condition
A breakthrough has been made in understanding a rare genetic skin disease that causes progressively enlarging skin tumours over the scalp, face and body.
Oct 24, 2019
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Medical research
Unexpected role of mTORC2 protein in colorectal cancer
New results from researchers at MedUni Vienna's Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics show that a protein called mTORC2, which is the target of newly developed cancer drugs, is not even active in colorectal cancer. mTORC2 ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Medical research
New diagnostic method finds aggressive tumors
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new, cheap method that can identify highly heterogeneous tumors that tend to be very aggressive, and therefore need to be treated more aggressively. The technique ...
Oct 18, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Imaging tumor stiffness could help enhance treatment for breast and pancreatic cancer
Using a non-invasive imaging technique that measures the stiffness of tissues gives crucial new information about cancer architecture and could aid the delivery of treatment to the most challenging tumours, new research shows.
Oct 11, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Blood test could help to accelerate brain cancer diagnosis
A blood test which could help to accelerate the diagnosis of brain cancer has been developed in research led at the University of Strathclyde.
Oct 9, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Secrets of lung cancer spread found in patients' blood and biopsies
Early signs that a patient's lung cancer may spread and become untreatable can be picked up in samples of their blood and tumour, according to a trio of papers published in Nature Medicine today.
Oct 7, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Whole genome sequencing could enable personalised cancer treatment, study suggests
Whole genome sequencing of tumour cells could help predict the prognosis of a patient's cancer and offer clues to identify the most effective treatment, suggests an international study published today in Nature Medicine.
Sep 30, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Method discovered to reactivate tumour fighting genes 'silenced' by cancer
Scientists at UCL have developed a method to reactivate 'tumour suppressor' genes, which are switched off by cancer cells—a finding which could lead to new targeted biotherapies for cancer.
Sep 23, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Fewer lymph node operations for breast cancer patients with new prediction models
In recently published studies, researchers at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden have produced new prediction models for improved personalized treatment of lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. The ...
Sep 20, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Same but different—unique cancer traits key to targeted therapies
Melbourne researchers have discovered that the key to personalised therapies for some types of lung cancers may be to focus on their differences, not their similarities.
Sep 13, 2019
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