Melanomas are one of the most aggressive types of tumors in humans. Despite remarkable success with new forms of treatment
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A new tactic for starving tumors
A tumor’s goal is simple: to grow, grow, grow, by making more cancer cells. But that often means growing so
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New drug halves hearing loss in children following cancer treatment
Giving the drug sodium thiosulphate after chemotherapy reduces hearing loss in children treated for liver cancer, according to findings published
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New target to stop cancer growth uncovered
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that a protein called Munc13-4 helps cancer cells secrete large numbers of
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Individual access to genomic disease risk factors has a beneficial impact on lifestyles
Giving personal genomic information to individuals can have a major, long-term effect on their lifestyle, researchers have found. The Finnish
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Breaking through a tumor’s defenses: Understanding how tumors subvert elements of our immune system suggests new immunotherapy treatments
In research published today, Babraham Institute researchers have shown that some tumours use not one but two levels of protection
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Novel PET imaging noninvasively pinpoints colitis inflammation
A novel positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method shows promise for noninvasively pinpointing sites of inflammation in people with inflammatory
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Most women with early breast cancer do not benefit from chemotherapy, TAILORx trial finds
New findings from the groundbreaking Trial Assigning Individualized Options for Treatment (Rx), or TAILORx trial, show no benefit from chemotherapy
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Increase in lifestyle-related cancers over past decade spotlights need for prevention: Lung cancer and colorectal cancer remain leading causes of cancer deaths globally; striking inequities in cancer burden persist between high- and low-SDI countries
Lifestyle-related cancers, such as lung, colorectal, and skin cancers, have increased globally over the past decade, according to the most
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How might baking soda boost cancer therapy? Researchers describe how acidity turns oxygen-starved cancer cells dormant and drug resistant — and a potentially easy way reverse the effect
A Ludwig Cancer Research study has uncovered an entirely novel mechanism by which cells enter a state of dormancy as
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