New spatial map reveals treatment vulnerabilities in bladder cancer
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a spatial map of muscle-invasive bladder…
Gene Test Identifies Breast Cancer Patients Who Can Safely Skip Chemotherapy
Results from the international OPTIMA trial indicate that a genomic test can identify many breast cancer patients who…
Hand-held wireless probe helps surgeons identify breast cancer tumors
Breast cancer impacts over 2 million women around the world each year. Following radiotherapy or chemotherapy, breast-conserving surgery…
‘Doctors said my three-year-old girl had hand, foot and mouth disease before rare liver cancer diagnosis – it broke me’
A mother whose three-year-old daughter was first thought to have hand, foot and mouth disease before being diagnosed…
Repurposed drugs may provide safer treatments for aggressive childhood leukemia
Three clinically available drugs could pave the way for safer and more effective treatments for one of the…
Exploiting a new weakness in ‘zombie-like’ cells to treat senescence-associated diseases
A new set of drugs exploit a recently-revealed weakness in ‘zombie-like’ – or senescent – cells that could lead to new treatments for cancer and age-associated diseases. The study from the…
Study reframes Hodgkin lymphoma as a cancer of failed cell development
For the first time, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have demonstrated that Hodgkin lymphoma cancer cells from patient samples…
Bowel cancer trial shows zero relapses after three years, researchers say
Image: © peterschreiber.media | iStock A bowel cancer trial using immunotherapy before surgery has shown zero relapses after…
New molecule weakens glioblastoma and enhances immune response
A team of researchers from Brown University Health and Brown University has uncovered an important clue in the…
DNA methylation “fingerprints” identify primary sites in metastatic cancers
A machine learning model analyzing CpG-based DNA methylation accurately predicted the origin of many different cancer types in…
Scientists link poor sleep to decreased chemotherapy response via the gut
Sleep deprivation has long been known to weaken the immune system. Now UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have…
Targeting senescent fat cells provides new hope for ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal malignancy of the female reproductive system. Due to its insidious early symptoms…