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Study: Gel-like, radioactive tumour implant obliterates pancreatic cancer
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 22 (ANI): Biomedical engineers have demonstrated the most effective treatment for pancreatic cancer in mouse models ever recorded. While most mouse trials consider simply halting growth a success, the new treatment completely eliminated tumors in 80% of mice across s
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Researchers bio-print breast cancer tumours, treat them in a groundbreakin
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 19 (ANI): Researchers have successfully 3D bioprinted breast cancer tumors and treated them in a breakthrough study to better understand the disease that is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide.
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Study: Development of tools, techniques to explore tumor microenvironment
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Atlanta (Georgia) [US], October 10 (ANI): The researcher is aiming to improve the odds for these patients in two recent studies that are primarily concerned with understanding why and how people respond differently to disease and therapies.
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Survival rates for deadliest types of pancreatic cancer vary: Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
San Diego [US], October 6 (ANI): The most prevalent and fatal kind of pancreatic cancer is pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). PDAC patients have a 5-year survival rate of only 7.1 per cent.
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CoE for Neuroendocrine Tumors launched at Rela Hospital
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 20 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Rela Hospital, a Multi-Speciality Quaternary Care Hospital at Chrompet, Chennai launched the "Centre of Excellence for Neuroendocrine Tumors" to provide the highest standard of care and expertise to patients with Neuroendoc
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Scientists discover new device to measure changing size of tumors below sk
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Stanford University have developed a small, self-contained device with a stretchable/flexible sensor that can be adhered to the skin and used to measure the changing size of tumours below. With the pres
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Researchers suggest how cancer treatment rewires engine of prostate tumor
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): For more than a decade, drugs like enzalutamide, which prevent male hormones from activating the androgen receptor, have been used to treat metastatic prostate cancer. While these treatments are generally effective, they can eventually stop working, but t
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Researchers develop drug that marks cancer cells for destruction by immune
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Tumour cells are infamous for their ability to evade the human immune system; they construct physical barriers, disguise themselves, and handcuff the immune system with molecular tricks.
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Cancer related Anemia should be treated on priority, suggests Doctors at A
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Gurgaon (Haryana) [India], September 6 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Anemia is a condition that affects more than half of cancer patients at diagnosis and during treatment which further impacts their quality of life on an everyday basis. Cancer patients with anemia show reduced response to radio
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Researchers discover new technologies that give depth understanding of tum
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], September 1 (ANI): Even when they are same cancer, such as breast cancer, tumours can range significantly from person to person. In order to treat cancer, precision oncology focuses on a tumor's unique genetic traits. Existing therapies can be "adapted" in this way to red
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Researchers discover rare form of liver cancer in Mice
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Heidelberg [Germany], August 19 (ANI): The cell of origin of mixed liver/biliary duct carcinomas, a rare type of liver cancer, has been found in mice by researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Carcino
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Study finds hormone generated by fat cells restrains liver tumor growth in
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 15 (ANI): According to a recent study from the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute, a hormone generated by fat cells can slow the growth of liver tumours in mice.
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