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Study suggests immunotherapy beneficial for patients with cancer that spre
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 25 (ANI): Two new studies have indicated that immunotherapy might benefit people with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMD), a rare but serious complication of cancer that has spread to the brain and/or spinal cord.
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Immunotherapy beneficial for patients with cancer that has spread to tissu
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): Two new studies indicate that immunotherapy may benefit people with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMD), a rare but serious complication of cancer that has spread to the brain and/or spinal cord. The research was led by investigators at Massachusetts Genera
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Kauvery Hospital successfully treats senior citizen with skin cancer radia
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 22 (ANI/NewsVoir): Skin cancers fall into two major categories: melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. Non-melanoma skin cancer is of two kinds: Squamous cell carcinoma (cancer that affects skin areas exposed to sunlight, and some cases non exposed ar
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Research suggests radio-wave therapy is safe for liver cancer patients
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
North Carolina [US], July 31 (ANI): A new study shows that a targeted therapy using non-thermal radio waves is safe to use in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer.
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Patient of chemo-resistant recurrent carcinoma treated using Y-shaped trac
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): Doctors recently treated a 51-year-old patient suffering from a recurrent chemo-resistant carcinoma in his trachea by using a Y-shaped tracheal stent. The patient had a few days or weeks to live but stenting prolonged life.
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Genetic study of liver cancer reveals new drug target
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Drugs targeting the gene MAGEA3 may help block the growth of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of primary liver cancer and one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in the country, new research found.
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Head, neck cancer cells hijack nearby healthy tissue, promote further inva
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 27 (ANI): Up to half of the patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma will experience tumour recurrence or new tumours- tumours that often spread and are difficult to treat.
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Surgical technique may reduce positive margin rate in breast cancer patien
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 5 (ANI): According to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a noninvasive breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) accounts for approximately one of every four new breast cancer cases in the United States. If left untreated, DCIS has
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Glenmark launches SUTIB (Sunitinib) - priced 96% lower than the innovator
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, a research-led, global integrated pharmaceutical company, today launched SUTIB, the generic version of Sunitinib oral capsules to treat kidney cancer in India.
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Link between driver of ovarian cancer, metabolism opens up new therapeutic
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 12 (ANI): Mutations that inactivate the ARID1A gene in ovarian cancer increase utilisation of the glutamine amino acid making cancer cells dependent on glutamine metabolism, according to a study by The Wistar Institute published online in Nature Cancer.
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Single-cell analysis of metastatic gastric cancer finds diverse tumour cel
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 5 (ANI): Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who profiled more than 45,000 individual cells from patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC), defined the extensive cellular heterogeneity and identified two distinct subtypes correlated
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Evolution may be to blame for high risk of advanced cancers in humans
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): Compared to chimpanzees, humans are particularly prone to developing advanced carcinomas -- the type of tumors that include prostate, breast, lung and colorectal cancers -- even in the absence of known risk factors, such as genetic predisposition or tobacco
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