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Here's how cancer cells repair DNA damage
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
A team of scientists led by Dr Kei-ichi TAKATA from the Institute for Basic Science's Center for Genomic Integrity (CGI) discovered a new type of DNA repair mechanism that cancer cells use to recover from next-generation cancer radiation therapy.
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Study uses cancer cells as logic gates to find out what makes them move
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Cancer cells migrate through the body for a variety of reasons; some simply follow the flow of a fluid, while others actively follow chemical trails. So, how do you figure out which cells are shifting and why? Researchers at Purdue University reverse-engineered a cellular signal processing s
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Researchers using cancer cells as logic gates to determine what makes them
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Cancer cells migrate through the body for multiple reasons; some are simply following the flow of a fluid, while others are actively following specific chemical trails. So how do you determine which cells are moving and why? Purdue University researchers have reverse-engineered a cellular si
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Delaying antibiotics for neutropenic fever may not affect survival of canc
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Neutropenia--low levels of white blood cells called neutrophils, which fight infection--develops in more than 80 per cent of patients who receive chemotherapy for blood cancer. It occurs because chemotherapy destroys neutrophils along with tumour 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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