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Risk biomarkers may predict serious side effect of stem cell transplant: R
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Doctors are one step closer to establishing a risk biomarker that will warn them as to which of their paediatric stem cell transplant patients are likely to encounter sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS), a potentially fatal side effect.
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Microfluidic squeezing technology can treat head, neck cancer: Research
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Over the past ten years, an increase in head and neck malignancies has been related to human papillomavirus (HPV). For instance, studies show that 70 per cent of oropharyngeal cancer occurrences in the US are caused by HPV.
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Researchers reveal why cancer patients do not react to immunotherapy
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Cancer treatment has transformed thanks to immunotherapy. The five-year survival rate for advanced melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, has climbed from less than 10% to more than 50% since the development of immunotherapy in 2011. Sadly, immunotherapy only works on about half of mel
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Cancer patients who do not react to immunotherapy lack crucial immune cell
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Immunotherapy has changed cancer treatment. Since the introduction of immunotherapy in 2011, the five-year survival rate in advanced melanoma, the most lethal form of skin cancer, has increased from less than 10% to more than 50%. Unfortunately, only approximately half of melanoma patients r
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Radiotherapy is not an option for older breast cancer patients: Research
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to new research, Radiotherapy does not increase survival chances in older people with early breast cancer.
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How chemotherapy drug delays enzymes that support growth of cancer cells
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A recent study from Cornell University offers a new perspective on how the chemotherapy drug etoposide delays and kills vital enzymes that support the growth of cancer cells.
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Delaying antibiotics for neutropenic fever does not reduce survival chance
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to a study published in the American Journal of Medical Quality, delaying antibiotic treatment beyond 60 minutes from the time of fever detection does not reduce the short-term chance of survival in cancer patients with neutropenic fever.
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Scientists discover possible 'electrical language' of breast cancer cells
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Variable voltages have been discovered in the membranes of breast cancer cells, revealing information about how the cells grow and spread.
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Researchers synthesise molecule that can be more effective in cancer treat
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], August 8 (ANI): Tel Aviv University and the University of Lisbon researchers collaborated to identify and synthesise a small molecule that could be a more accessible and effective substitute for an antibody that is currently used to treat a variety of cancers.
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Circulating tumor DNA can identify stage II colon cancer patients : Resear
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 5 (ANI): Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) thats is a genetic material shed from tumors into the bloodstream can identify stage II colon cancer patients who can most benefit from chemotherapy following surgery and spare other patients the need for this form of treatment, ac
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Immune system treatment to reduce stress can prevent cancer metastases, st
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 23 (ANI): A new approach from Tel Aviv University can save the lives of cancer patients! Researchers have found that the short time period around tumour removal surgery (the weeks before and after surgery) is critical for the prevention of metastases development, whic
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