Search For "tumour"
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
Read More
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.
Read More
Researchers discover how artificial intelligence can be trained to detect
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Bochum [Germany], September 4 (ANI): Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to detect whether or not a tissue picture contains a tumour. However, until recently, it has remained a mystery as to how it makes its judgement. A team from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum's Research Center for Protei
Read More
Researchers report encouraging immunotherapy options for relapsed myeloma
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 2 (ANI): Researchers have published results that show encouraging therapeutic options for patients with blood cancer and multiple myeloma after first-line treatment with bispecific antibodies fails. Bispecific antibodies are a type of antibody that can bind to two
Read More
Researchers find blood test shows neurotoxic complications of CAR-T cell t
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 2 (ANI): The treatment of various tumours has been transformed by cell-based immunotherapy, often known as CAR-T cell therapy. In order to target and combat specific forms of leukaemia and lymphoma, the treatment employs genetically engineered T cells. While it has
Read More
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
Read More
Research finds therapeutic drugs can render cancer cells weaponless
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Bonn [Germany], August 28 (ANI): The protective scent that tumour cells spray themselves with suppresses the immune system. It seems, however, that a medicine that has already been approved for other uses can render this weapon harmless.
Read More
Research finds reason for return of brain cancer
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 27 (ANI): According to researchers working to develop a cure for brain cancer, the deadliest type of the disease returns because tumours adapt to therapy by recruiting help from nearby healthy tissue.
Read More
Study sheds light on progression of pancreatic cancer
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 26 (ANI): A detailed analysis of pancreatic cancer by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has revealed details of two key transition points in the development of these tumours the shift from normal cells to precancerous cells and the c
Read More
Study: Therapeutic drug can render cancer cells
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Bonn [Germany], August 26 (ANI): The immune system is suppressed by the protective scent that many tumour cells spray themselves with. However, it appears that a medicine that has already been approved for other uses can render this weapon harmless. A study from the University of Bonn and th
Read More
Study suggests tumour environment might affect breast cancer prognosis
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lund (Sweden) [Europe], August 25 (ANI): A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that the environment in which breast cancer arises, the interplay between the patient's BMI, tumour size and cancer-specific proteins, is of importance for the prognosis.
Read More
Researchers identify chemo alternative for targeted treatment of leukemia
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], August 25 (ANI): Chemotherapy is a painful experience. The treatments in general have terrible side effects and it's no secret that the medications used are frequently hazardous to both the patient and the tumour. Because tumours spread so quickly, the theory is that chemoth
Read More