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Scientists have more evidence of why clear margins in breast cancer surgery are such good news

When a breast cancer tumor is removed with no signs of cancer left behind, it's great news for patients, and now scientists have more evidence of why.

1 Apr 2019

EU-funded researchers develop 'nano-vehicle' to deliver life-saving drugs

Despite many successes, modern medicine is still struggling to find effective treatments for serious pathologies such as cancer and neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases. For Alzheimer’s disease, for example, only 30% of patients respond to therapy whereas for cancers the figure is only 25%.

1 Apr 2019

ETH researchers take major step towards personalized cancer immunotherapy

Cells belonging to the body's own immune system can help fight tumours. For several years now, this has allowed oncologists to use medications known as checkpoint inhibitors to encourage T cells to eliminate tumor cells.

30 Mar 2019

Research reveals genomic basis of acute erythroid leukemia

Acute erythroid leukemia is a high-risk cancer with a dismal prognosis, uncertain genetic basis and controversy surrounding the diagnosis. That is changing, thanks to research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital that appears today in the journal Nature Genetics.

30 Mar 2019

Research demonstrates clinical utility of ddPCR-powered liquid biopsy at 2019 AACR Annual Meeting

New research demonstrating the clinical utility of Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR powered liquid biopsy will be presented this week during the 2019 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Atlanta, March 29-April 3.

30 Mar 2019

New combination therapy found to be well tolerated in patients with aggressive brain tumor

A phase I clinical trial that set out to assess the safety of a new combination therapy for a type of aggressive brain tumour has found the treatment to be well tolerated in patients.

30 Mar 2019

IASLC 2019 Small Cell Lung Cancer Meeting focuses on immunotherapy and patient perspective

While non-small cell lung cancer is the more common form of lung cancer and attracts the lion's share of the research funding, recent developments in small cell lung cancer may be shifting that slightly.

29 Mar 2019

New targetable vulnerability in breast cancer cells discovered

Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institutet have discovered new molecular mechanisms of breast cancer cell signaling that contribute to aggressive behavior of cancer cells.

29 Mar 2019

Queen’s University Belfast and Domainex identify novel first-in-class FLIP inhibitors

Queen’s University Belfast and Domainex are pleased to announce that their joint project team has successfully identified novel first-in-class small molecule inhibitors of the anti-apoptotic protein FLIP.

29 Mar 2019

Walnut consumption could change gene expression in pathologically-confirmed breast cancers

New research from Marshall University links walnut consumption as a contributing factor that could suppress growth and survival of breast cancers.

29 Mar 2019

Scientists target metastasis in the battle against cancer

An experimental combination drug therapy attacking the DNA integrity of cancer cells is showing promise for a possible new cancer therapy in the future.

29 Mar 2019

FDA approves treatment for adults with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Cimzia (certolizumab pegol) injection for treatment of adults with a certain type of inflammatory arthritis called non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA), with objective signs of inflammation. This is the first time that the FDA has approved a treatment for nr-axSpA.

28 Mar 2019

New strategy for potential treatment of HBV associated liver cancer

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore General Hospital and Lion TCR have demonstrated that they were able to engineer HBV-specific T cells, a type of immune cells found in the body, to treat Hepatocellular carcinoma, a commonly occurring liver cancer.

28 Mar 2019

Tumor biomarker EpCAM shown to be promising target for cancer immunotherapy

Researchers have shown that cancer immunotherapy targeting the tumor biomarker epithelial cell adhesion molecule is safe and nontoxic in mice and can significantly delay tumor formation and growth.

28 Mar 2019

Low-dose radiation therapy may increase uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by brain tumors

A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by glioblastomas, raising the possibility of using both growth-factor-targeted and immune-system-based therapies against the deadly brain tumor.

28 Mar 2019

Portable mini microscope could improve scientists' ability to study brain disease in living mice

Working with mice, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has developed a relatively inexpensive, portable mini microscope that could improve scientists' ability to image the effects of cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's disease and other conditions in the brains of living and active mice over time.

28 Mar 2019

Heating tumors during CAR T-cell therapy can enhance treatment's success, study suggests

A preclinical study led by scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer suggests that heating solid tumors during CAR T-cell therapy can enhance the treatment's success.

28 Mar 2019

Radiolabeled protein lights up tumor to reveal where cancer drugs are working

Experimenting with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have successfully used positron emission tomography scans to calculate in real time how much of an immunotherapy drug reaches a tumor and what parts of a cancer remain unaffected.

28 Mar 2019

Garvan researchers develop more accurate method to diagnose cancer subtypes

Developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, this potential diagnostic method screens a cancer sample for 'fusion genes', estimated to be linked to one in five cancers, and may provide a more accurate snapshot of rearranged DNA found in cancer.

28 Mar 2019

Tumor-associated macrophages block activity of chemotherapy drug in pancreatic cancer

A frontline chemotherapy drug given to patients with pancreatic cancer is made less effective because similar compounds released by tumor-associated immune cells block the drug's action, research led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center found.

27 Mar 2019

Tumor News and Research

Scientists have more evidence of why clear margins in breast cancer surgery are such good news

EU-funded researchers develop 'nano-vehicle' to deliver life-saving drugs

ETH researchers take major step towards personalized cancer immunotherapy

Research reveals genomic basis of acute erythroid leukemia

Research demonstrates clinical utility of ddPCR-powered liquid biopsy at 2019 AACR Annual Meeting

New combination therapy found to be well tolerated in patients with aggressive brain tumor

IASLC 2019 Small Cell Lung Cancer Meeting focuses on immunotherapy and patient perspective

New targetable vulnerability in breast cancer cells discovered

Queen’s University Belfast and Domainex identify novel first-in-class FLIP inhibitors

Walnut consumption could change gene expression in pathologically-confirmed breast cancers

Scientists target metastasis in the battle against cancer

FDA approves treatment for adults with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis

New strategy for potential treatment of HBV associated liver cancer

Tumor biomarker EpCAM shown to be promising target for cancer immunotherapy

Low-dose radiation therapy may increase uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by brain tumors

Portable mini microscope could improve scientists' ability to study brain disease in living mice

Heating tumors during CAR T-cell therapy can enhance treatment's success, study suggests

Radiolabeled protein lights up tumor to reveal where cancer drugs are working

Garvan researchers develop more accurate method to diagnose cancer subtypes

Tumor-associated macrophages block activity of chemotherapy drug in pancreatic cancer

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