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Study: Most pediatric cancer patients have mild COVID-19 and make full recovery

Most children and adolescents with cancer have mild COVID-19 disease and make a full recovery, a new study has found. But pediatric cancer patients with underlying health conditions, severe infections and low white blood cell counts were significantly more likely to have severe disease.

9 Nov 2021

Researchers investigate how intestinal bacteria distribute metabolic products in membrane vesicles

Bacteria in the intestine pack a wide spectrum of their biomolecules into small capsules. These are transported via the bloodstream to various organs in the body and even absorbed and processed by nerve cells in the brain.

9 Nov 2021

Proton therapy used for the first time in Switzerland to treat lung cancer

Today a 60-year-old patient suffering from lung cancer received proton beam therapy, a medical procedure where positively charged particles are precisely targeted at the tumor. This is the first time this type of radiotherapy has been used for lung cancer treatment in Switzerland.

9 Nov 2021

Study explores the impact of ethnicity on brain tumor survival

White British people who have been diagnosed with a malignant primary brain tumor appear to be more likely to die within one year than patients from at least four other ethnic groups according to a study presented at the NCRI Festival.

9 Nov 2021

Elusive white blood cells play a role in impaired T cell functions and counts in people with HIV

In a groundbreaking study of people living with HIV, University of Alberta researchers found that elusive white blood cells called neutrophils play a role in impaired T cell functions and counts, as well as the associated chronic inflammation that is common with the virus.

9 Nov 2021

Radiation therapy puts childhood cancer survivors at higher risk of cardiometabolic disease

Decades after battling childhood cancer, survivors often face a new challenge: cardiometabolic disease. A spectrum of conditions that includes coronary heart disease and diabetes, cardiometabolic disease typically impacts people who are obese, elderly, or insulin resistant.

9 Nov 2021

Innovative imaging technology can measure temperature in 2D

A new imaging technique, developed by the teams of Professors Jinyang Liang and Fiorenzo Vetrone at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, can measure temperature in 2D, without contact, and in just a snap.

9 Nov 2021

Repeated listening to favorite music induces beneficial brain plasticity in Alzheimer’s patients

Researchers at the University of Toronto and Unity Health Toronto have demonstrated that repeated listening to personally meaningful music induces beneficial brain plasticity in patients with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer's disease.

9 Nov 2021

Researchers develop model for early prediction of cancer patients' response to immunotherapy

Researchers have developed a model that could predict early on in treatment whether cancer patients will respond to immunotherapy, according to a report published today in eLife.

9 Nov 2021

Researchers identify safety concerns with neuroblastoma candidate drug

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists looking for drugs to improve survival of children with high-risk neuroblastoma found a promising candidate in CX-5461.

9 Nov 2021

Oncologists use immunotherapy at faster rates for trial-ineligible patients, study finds

Cancer patients who are ineligible for clinical trials receive immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) at greater rates than patients who are trial eligible despite no survival benefit, according to a new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

9 Nov 2021

Targeting Shp2 in oncological treatments appears to worsen the disease

In recent years, much scientific effort and funding has focused on developing drugs that target an enzyme with the unwieldy name of Src homology 2-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase 2 or more briefly, Shp2.

9 Nov 2021

Fat-secreted molecule may cancel out the effects of common breast cancer treatment

Leptin, a molecule produced by fat cells, appears to cancel out the effects of the estrogen-blocking therapy tamoxifen, a drug commonly used to treat and prevent breast cancers, suggests a new study led by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

9 Nov 2021

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

Study: Most pediatric cancer patients have mild COVID-19 and make full recovery

Researchers investigate how intestinal bacteria distribute metabolic products in membrane vesicles

Proton therapy used for the first time in Switzerland to treat lung cancer

Study explores the impact of ethnicity on brain tumor survival

Elusive white blood cells play a role in impaired T cell functions and counts in people with HIV

Radiation therapy puts childhood cancer survivors at higher risk of cardiometabolic disease

Innovative imaging technology can measure temperature in 2D

Repeated listening to favorite music induces beneficial brain plasticity in Alzheimer’s patients

Researchers develop model for early prediction of cancer patients' response to immunotherapy

Researchers identify safety concerns with neuroblastoma candidate drug

Oncologists use immunotherapy at faster rates for trial-ineligible patients, study finds

Targeting Shp2 in oncological treatments appears to worsen the disease

Fat-secreted molecule may cancel out the effects of common breast cancer treatment

Scientists discover gene responsible for doubling the risk of respiratory failure from COVID-19

Multiplex network offers a systematic approach to study rare, uncharacterized diseases

Binghamton professor receives grant to develop a faster, less painful way to diagnose lung nodules

Medicare enrollment blitz doesn’t include options to move into Medigap

Experts discover novel tool to explore ways to advance cancer treatment

Novel study aims to develop personalized treatment for triple-negative breast cancer

Lack of health insurance accounts for unemployed adults' lower cancer screening rates

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