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Scientists unlock cancer's ancestry
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer's ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Research Professor Alexander Krasnitz, the answers may lie dee
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Covid-19 vaccine protects patients with blood cancer: Study
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
People with blood cancer usually have a weak immune system, putting them at an increased risk of becoming very ill from COVID-19. Furthermore, several cancer treatments cause these individuals to develop little or no antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 after COVID-19 vaccination.
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Epigenetics breaks into the clinical practice of cancer: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers describe the impact of epigenetics on cancer treatment and how it has become a crucial tool to improve early detection, predict disease progression and become a target for new treatments.
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Researchers discover new biomarker method to diagnose severe heart complic
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers at Michigan Medicine have developed a new biomarker-based technique to screen for a rare and fatal consequence caused by monoclonal antibodies, which are used to treat a variety of tumours.
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Concentration of surgery improves operations for childhood cancer: Researc
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Neuroblastoma is a tumour of the sympathetic nervous system that occurs mainly in young children. Every year, 25 children in the Netherlands receive this diagnosis. Surgery to remove the tumour tissue forms an important part of the treatment plan. Since November 2014, care for children in th
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Researchers unravel population of 'cheating' cells in cancers
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers at UConn Health, Yale, and Johns Hopkins have identified that some cancer cells can "cheat" by escaping constraints imposed by lack of oxygen, allowing the cancer cells to continue to grow.
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Research: Killing pancreatic cancer with T cells that supercharge themselv
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered T cells to produce a potent anti-cancer cytokine, but only when they encounter tumour cells.
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Post-chemotherapy, Jane Fonda's cancer is speedily receding
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Jane Fonda recently admitted that her cancer is in remission after her chemotherapy sessions, and that she can soon discontinue them.
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Bone Marrow Cancer can potentially be treated by specialized drug: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a study by the University of Pennsylvania, multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer, could be potentially treated by a first-of-its-kind drug.
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Researchers uncover new pathway for molecular cancer drug therapies
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A fundamental challenge in drug development is the balance between optimizing a drug's lock-and-key fit with its target and the drug's ability to make its way across the cellular membrane and access that target.
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Scientists find out if new cancer drug can come from potatoes
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A team of Polish scientists led by Magdalena Winkiel at Adam Mickiewicz University, publishing today in Frontiers in Pharmacology, reviewed the bioactive compounds called glycolalkaloids that are found in many vegetables that are household names, like potatoes and tomatoes, to demonstrate th
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Research: Existing drug could reduce side effects of popular cancer treatm
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A Michigan State University researcher is part of an international team that found an existing drug may help decrease the side effects of cisplatin, a widely used cancer treatment that was discovered at MSU in 1965.
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