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Healthy eating pattern improves weight, reduces cardiovascular disease risks in overweight children

A Cleveland Clinic-led research team found that statistically overweight children who followed a healthy eating pattern significantly improved weight and reduced a variety of cardiovascular disease risks.

22 Sep 2021

Children receiving living donor liver transplant less likely to experience organ rejection

In the United States alone, 500 children will need a liver transplant this year. While liver tissue can come from living or deceased donors, no studies have demonstrated which of these methods leads to better outcomes for children. In a new publication, researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles pooled published results from over 8,000 pediatric patients across four continents. The data reveal that children who receive living donor liver tissue for transplants are far less likely to experience serious complications like organ rejection.

22 Sep 2021

Discovery of genes opens the door to new treatments for obesity

Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that can cause and three that can prevent weight gain.

22 Sep 2021

Research pinpoints new therapeutic opportunity for ovarian clear cell carcinomas

Mutations in the ARID1A gene are present in more than 50% of ovarian clear cell carcinomas (OCCC), for which effective treatments are lacking. Scientists at The Wistar Institute discovered that loss of ARID1A function enhances a cellular stress response pathway that promotes survival of cancer cells, which become sensitive to pharmacological inhibition of this pathway. These findings were published online in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, and point to a new therapeutic opportunity for this type of ovarian cancer for which new solutions are urgently needed.

22 Sep 2021

Scientists use statistical mechanics to make sense of DNA folding

At more than 2 meters long, the human DNA molecule uses intricate folding patterns to fit into cells while locally unfolding to express genes. Such phenomena, however, are difficult to measure in experiments, and theoretical frameworks explaining them continue to be at odds with one another.

22 Sep 2021

Young people with cancer face inequalities in fertility preservation services across the UK

Young people who survive cancer are at risk of missing out on the chance to have children in the future, due to inequalities in fertility preservation services across the UK, new research has found.

22 Sep 2021

Young people with cancer in the UK face funding lottery for fertility preservation services

Children and young people with cancer in the UK face something of a funding lottery for services to preserve their fertility, with specialist treatment centers heavily reliant on charities to stump up the cash needed, particularly in England, finds the first study of its kind, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

21 Sep 2021

Hispanic Americans have a higher risk of preventable infection-related cancers, report shows

A new report shows that although Hispanic men and women in the continental United States and Hawaii have 25% to 30% lower overall cancer incidence and mortality than non-Hispanic Whites, they continue to have a higher risk of potentially preventable, infection-related cancers, including approximately two-fold higher rates of liver and stomach cancers.

21 Sep 2021

Artificial intelligence predicts the risk of metastatic relapse in breast cancer patients

The RACE AI study conducted by Gustave Roussy and the startup Owkin, as part of the AI for Health Challenge organized by the Ile-de-France Region in 2019, was presented as a proffered paper at ESMO.

21 Sep 2021

Nemours receives $10.5 million NIH grant to support research in sickle cell disease

Researchers at Nemours Children's Health, Delaware have received a $10.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to support the Delaware Comprehensive Sickle Cell Research Program.

21 Sep 2021

Rice bioengineer receives $1.9 million NIH grant to improve time-release drugs

Time-released drugs are about to get a geometry lesson, thanks to bioengineers at Rice University.

21 Sep 2021

Those undergoing treatment for hematological malignancies show reduced immune response to COVID-19 vaccines

Researchers recently investigated the effect of infection with SARS-CoV-2 in patients with hematologic malignancies in minority populations.

21 Sep 2021

Oxford COVID vaccine technology has the potential to revolutionize cancer treatment

Scientists from the University of Oxford and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research are building on the success of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 to develop a vaccine to treat cancer.

21 Sep 2021

U of U research funding continues to grow in fiscal year 2021

University of Utah research funding continues to grow, totaling $641 million in fiscal year 2021 (FY21), which ended June 30.

21 Sep 2021

Signs and risk factors of pulmonary embolism missed in dementia patients

Patients with dementia who had signs and risk factors of a pulmonary embolism, or a blood clot in the lungs, were much less likely to be tested for pulmonary embolism than patients without dementia who had the same signs and risk factors.

21 Sep 2021

New analysis reveals the economic burden of polycystic ovary syndrome in the U.S.

The most common hormone disorder affecting women of reproductive age - polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) - cost an estimated $8 billion to diagnose and treat nationwide in 2020, according to a new economic analysis published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

21 Sep 2021

Including Japanese knotweed extract in processed red meat could reduce cancer risk

Bacon could be back on the menu of health-conscious diners thanks to an unlikely salvation: Japanese knotweed.

21 Sep 2021

Researchers provide structural insights into HCV receptor binding and entry

In a new paper published in Nature, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, describe the structure of a key protein on the surface of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and how it interacts with its receptor found on some human cells.

21 Sep 2021

Study shows how SARS-CoV-2 viral proteases can be targeted to stop virus replication

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have shown how SARS-CoV-2 viral proteases attack the host cell, and how this can be targeted to stop virus replication in cell culture using existing drugs.

21 Sep 2021

Novel anti-hormonal therapy may be a new treatment option for early-stage breast cancer

Early results from a UCLA-led clinical trial found treating women with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2)-negative early breast cancers with a novel type of anti-hormonal therapy, called an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), led to clinically meaningful reductions in tumor activity prior to surgery.

21 Sep 2021

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

Healthy eating pattern improves weight, reduces cardiovascular disease risks in overweight children

Children receiving living donor liver transplant less likely to experience organ rejection

Discovery of genes opens the door to new treatments for obesity

Research pinpoints new therapeutic opportunity for ovarian clear cell carcinomas

Scientists use statistical mechanics to make sense of DNA folding

Young people with cancer face inequalities in fertility preservation services across the UK

Young people with cancer in the UK face funding lottery for fertility preservation services

Hispanic Americans have a higher risk of preventable infection-related cancers, report shows

Artificial intelligence predicts the risk of metastatic relapse in breast cancer patients

Nemours receives $10.5 million NIH grant to support research in sickle cell disease

Rice bioengineer receives $1.9 million NIH grant to improve time-release drugs

Those undergoing treatment for hematological malignancies show reduced immune response to COVID-19 vaccines

Oxford COVID vaccine technology has the potential to revolutionize cancer treatment

U of U research funding continues to grow in fiscal year 2021

Signs and risk factors of pulmonary embolism missed in dementia patients

New analysis reveals the economic burden of polycystic ovary syndrome in the U.S.

Including Japanese knotweed extract in processed red meat could reduce cancer risk

Researchers provide structural insights into HCV receptor binding and entry

Study shows how SARS-CoV-2 viral proteases can be targeted to stop virus replication

Novel anti-hormonal therapy may be a new treatment option for early-stage breast cancer

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