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Immunotherapy helps to fight against cancer: Study
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The potential of artificial DNA constructs that, when used in conjunction with antibodies, tell the immune system to focus on malignant cells in particular is highlighted by a recent study.
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Cinnamon and its active components prevent prostate cancer: ICMR-NIN study
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A study by the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) has demonstrated that the popular Indian cuisine cinnamon and its active components - cinnamaldehyde & procyanidin B2 — administered orally to rats had an inhibitory effect on early-stage prostate cancer.
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Certain types of cancer can be predicted using AI: Study
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Over the past 50 years, there has been a sharp increase in esophageal and stomach cancer in the United States and other western nations. Both gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) have a high mortality rate.
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Participants in adult education have lower risk of dementia: Study
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers found adult education reduces the risk of dementia like Alzheimer's by 19 per cent for middle-aged and elderly people within five years.
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Bariatric surgery has long-term benefits in cancer prevention of females:
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Bariatric surgery is associated with lower all-cancer and obesity-related cancer incidence among females, according to recent research that took into account follow-up years, increased sample sizes, and numerous surgical procedures. According to a new study published in Obesity, the flagshi
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Prostate cancer drug helps to fight against Covid: Study
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Men appeared to experience greater rates of severe sickness and mortality at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, which led researchers to hypothesise a connection between androgen receptors—which bind to hormones like testosterone—and SARS-CoV-2 virus infection
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Study finds how immunotherapy helps to fight against cancer
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A particularly promising tool in the war against cancer is immunotherapy
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Scientists scramble to understand highly mutated coronavirus variant spott
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The new variant, called BA.2.86 and nicknamed Pirola by variant hunters on social media, has more than 30 amino acid changes to its spike protein compared with its next closest ancestor, the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron, according to Dr Jesse Bloom, who studies viral evolution at the Fred H
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Patients with low-risk breast cancer may not require radiotherapy: Study
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Some women with early-stage, low-risk breast cancer may not need radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery, according to recent research from McMaster University, BC Cancer, Hamilton Health Sciences, and the University of British Columbia.
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Cancer-infecting virus ‘warms up’ cold tumors, boosts immunotherapy: Resea
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
According to recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, equipping cancer-infecting viruses with tumor-inhibiting genetic cargo boosts the immune system and supports immunotherapy in reducing or totally eradicating aggressive tumours in mice. The findings pave the path
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Cardiorespiratory fitness associated with 40 per cent reduction in risk of
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A substantial long-term study published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine finds that having strong cardiorespiratory fitness while you're young is related to a 40 per cent lower risk of developing 9 specific cancers later in life, at least in men.
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Lorazepam treatment associated with worse outcomes for pancreatic cancer p
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Patients with pancreatic cancer who took the benzodiazepine lorazepam (Ativan), commonly prescribed to treat anxiety during cancer treatment, had a shorter progression-free survival than patients who did not, according to the study.
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