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Chemotherapy-induced changes to gut bacteria linked to unhealthy weight gain in breast cancer patients

Researchers have found a link between chemotherapy-induced changes to gut bacteria and the unhealthy weight gain seen in breast cancer patients, pointing the way to potentially help survivors avoid obesity-related illness later in their lives.

11 Jul 2023

Financial toxicity a major issue for patients with advanced prostate cancer

Fifty percent of patients with metastatic prostate cancer experience some level of financial hardship due to their treatment, according to a study in the August issue of The Journal of Urology®, an Official Journal of the American Urological Association (AUA). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

7 Jul 2023

Fecal transplants safe and effective in treating advanced melanoma, clinical trial shows

In a world-first clinical trial published in the journal Nature Medicine, a multi-center study from Lawson Health Research Institute, the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal and the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has found fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) from healthy donors are safe and show promise in improving response to immunotherapy in patients with advanced melanoma.

7 Jul 2023

Healthy diet shown to lower cardiovascular disease risk in adult childhood cancer survivors

Research explores the impact of dietary patterns on the risk of cardiovascular disease in adult survivors of childhood cancer, shedding light on the relationship between diet and long-term health outcomes in this population.

6 Jul 2023

COST Connect: A platform for collaboration and progress in cancer research

Beating cancer is a major challenge for research and innovation in the coming years. By 2030, it is estimated that over 1.5 million people in the EU will succumb to cancer.

6 Jul 2023

Single-cell RNA sequencing provides new insights into gastric cancer

A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center provides a deeper understanding of the evolution of the tumor microenvironment during gastric cancer progression.

6 Jul 2023

Major agreement moves ground-breaking new cancer treatments a step closer to patients

Ground-breaking new cancer treatments have moved a step closer with the signing of a major agreement between the government and BioNTech SE.

5 Jul 2023

Mutations in AGC kinase motif linked to colorectal cancer growth

Cancer spreads throughout the human body in cunning, almost militaristic, ways. For example, it can manipulate our genetic make-up, take over specific cell-to-cell signaling processes, and mutate key enzymes to promote tumor growth, resist therapies, and hasten its spread from the original site to the bloodstream or other organs.

3 Jul 2023

Precision protection: antibody testing offers insights into predicting SARS-CoV-2 infection risk in immunocompromised patients

Researchers used antibody testing to predict the risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.

3 Jul 2023

eTRANSAFE: European project to share data on the safety of medicines

eTRANSAFE, the European project to share data on the safety of medicines, has come to fruition. On a single platform, the project has integrated data from more than 10,000 pharmacological studies by reference pharmaceutical companies, from a dozen databases that amass public and private information of clinical and preclinical studies.

29 Jun 2023

Pyroptosis: A potential therapeutic target for lung cancer

Lung cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, continues to be a leading cause of death worldwide. Although several new therapies have been developed for this disease, it has a poor prognosis in its advanced stages.

28 Jun 2023

New nanoparticle could improve the delivery of mRNA-based vaccines

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a nanoparticle -; an extremely tiny biodegradable container -; that has the potential to improve the delivery of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based vaccines for infectious diseases such as COVID-19, and vaccines for treating non-infectious diseases including cancer.

28 Jun 2023

UTHSC team poised to make a real-world impact on vulnerable cancer patients

A University of Tennessee Health Science Center research team is poised to make a real-world impact on vulnerable cancer patients, thanks to new support from the State of Tennessee.

27 Jun 2023

Personalized dosing improves outcomes for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

By monitoring early-response biomarkers in men undergoing 177Lu-PSMA prostate cancer treatment, physicians can personalize dosing intervals, significantly improving patient outcomes.

26 Jun 2023

Research shows fertility challenges for women treated for childhood Hodgkin lymphoma

Women treated for childhood Hodgkin lymphoma may face declining fertility at a younger age, according to research presented today (Monday) at the 39th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.

26 Jun 2023

‘We’re not doing that’: Why a Black couple wouldn’t crowdfund to pay off medical debts

When Kristie Fields was undergoing treatment for breast cancer nine years ago, she got some unsolicited advice at the hospital: Share your story on the local news, a nurse told her. Viewers would surely send money.

26 Jun 2023

Histone acetyltransferases: Promising targets for cancer treatment

Announcing a new publication for Acta Materia Medica journal. Histone lysine acylation is a major class of histone post-translational modifications involved in essential biological activities, such as transcriptional regulation, DNA-damage, a repairnd cell-cycle progression.

25 Jun 2023

3D models of ovarian cancer reveal how cell’s location can affect tumor biology

Using 3-D models of ovarian cancer tumors, scientists found differences in gene activity based on where a cell is in a tumor, demonstrating how a cell's location and environment in a cancerous tumor can strongly influence which genes are active and the cell's role in the cancer's biology.

23 Jun 2023

BU study reveals crucial signaling pathway that drives head and neck cancers

Despite advances in defining the genomic characteristics of head and neck cancers, these malignancies continue to rank among the deadliest cancers with few targeted therapies available.

23 Jun 2023

Repurposing cancer drugs for malaria treatment

With malaria becoming increasingly drug-resistant, a team of UCF researchers is looking to use cancer drugs to accelerate the discovery of new life-saving therapies for the disease.

21 Jun 2023

Cancer Treatment News and Research

Chemotherapy-induced changes to gut bacteria linked to unhealthy weight gain in breast cancer patients

Financial toxicity a major issue for patients with advanced prostate cancer

Fecal transplants safe and effective in treating advanced melanoma, clinical trial shows

Healthy diet shown to lower cardiovascular disease risk in adult childhood cancer survivors

COST Connect: A platform for collaboration and progress in cancer research

Single-cell RNA sequencing provides new insights into gastric cancer

Major agreement moves ground-breaking new cancer treatments a step closer to patients

Mutations in AGC kinase motif linked to colorectal cancer growth

Precision protection: antibody testing offers insights into predicting SARS-CoV-2 infection risk in immunocompromised patients

eTRANSAFE: European project to share data on the safety of medicines

Pyroptosis: A potential therapeutic target for lung cancer

New nanoparticle could improve the delivery of mRNA-based vaccines

UTHSC team poised to make a real-world impact on vulnerable cancer patients

Personalized dosing improves outcomes for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

Research shows fertility challenges for women treated for childhood Hodgkin lymphoma

‘We’re not doing that’: Why a Black couple wouldn’t crowdfund to pay off medical debts

Histone acetyltransferases: Promising targets for cancer treatment

3D models of ovarian cancer reveal how cell’s location can affect tumor biology

BU study reveals crucial signaling pathway that drives head and neck cancers

Repurposing cancer drugs for malaria treatment

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