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Gut bacteria can accumulate in tumors and improve effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy

Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Chicago have discovered that bacteria that usually live in the gut can accumulate in tumors and improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy in mice.

10 Mar 2020

College athletes participating in indoor sports at risk of vitamin D deficiency

College athletes participating in indoor sports, especially African-Americans, might be vitamin D deficient and put themselves at risk of injury or poor performance according to a study recently published in the journal Nutrients.

10 Mar 2020

Cream infused with microscopic STAR particles could facilitate better treatment of skin diseases

Skin diseases affect half of the world's population, but many treatments are not effective, require frequent injections, or cause significant side effects.

10 Mar 2020

New imaging agent illuminates cancerous tumors and surrounding cells

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new imaging agent that could let doctors identify not only multiple types of tumors but the surrounding normal cells that the cancer takes over and uses as a shield to protect itself from attempts to destroy it.

10 Mar 2020

Researchers develop a microfluidic chip to help detect prostate cancer

Researchers of Sechenov University together with their colleagues from Australia used the microfluidics technology to develop a device able to isolate cancer cells from urine of patients with prostate cancer.

10 Mar 2020

A previously unknown mechanism could be new therapeutic target for cancer immunotherapy

Researchers at UC have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that could explain the reason behind decreased immune function in cancer patients and could be a new therapeutic target for immunotherapy for those with head and neck cancers.

10 Mar 2020

Climate change, urbanization expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon

More than half of the world's population faces a looming threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water because climate change and urbanization are expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon, a new UNSW study has found.

10 Mar 2020

Baylor College of Medicine and UH team up for new research collaborations

Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Houston are teaming up for new research collaborations.

10 Mar 2020

Postmenopausal breast cancer and the benefit of genetic testing

A new study shows that genetic mutations could be detected in one in 40 women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 65 years. The study from Stanford researchers, titled "Prevalence of Pathogenic Variants in Cancer Susceptibility Genes Among Women With Postmenopausal Breast Cancer," was published as a research letter 10th March in the journal JAMA.

10 Mar 2020

Research introduces a new concept of resectability in pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is predicted to become the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths by 2030. However, recent developments in staging and treatment provide options to improve the long-term survival rate for an otherwise devastating diagnosis.

10 Mar 2020

Patients using copper IUDs have lower cervical cancer risk compared to LNG-IUS users

Patients who used copper intrauterine devices (Cu IUD) were found to have a lower risk of high-grade cervical neoplasms (cervical cancer) compared to users of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS), according to a Columbia study recently published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

10 Mar 2020

The second person cured from HIV goes public

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the outbreak of HIV and AIDS swept across the globe. Today, more than 70 million people have been infected with HIV, and about 35 million have died from AIDS since the start of the pandemic. However, scientific advances, such as the development of antiretroviral drugs, have enabled people with access to treatment to live long and healthy lives with HIV. But, there is still no vaccine and cure for it. In history, only two persons have been cleared of the infection, one in Berlin and now the second one in London.

10 Mar 2020

NCCN publishes recommendations for assessing quality improvements in cancer care

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published a curated list of high-impact measures for assessing quality improvements in cancer care.

10 Mar 2020

Researchers find way to inactivate cancer protein with the help of another protein

Squamous cell carcinoma is a very unusual type of cancer. They occur in many tissues – for example in the lungs, esophagus, pancreas, throat and pharynx, and on the skin.

10 Mar 2020

Combination of anti-cancer nanodrugs with Intralipid enhances therapeutic efficacy

Pairing chemotherapy nanodrugs with a nutritional supplement can lessen devastating side-effects while reducing the amount of the expensive drugs needed to treat cancer according to a study from Carnegie Mellon University and Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes.

10 Mar 2020

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

Gut bacteria can accumulate in tumors and improve effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy

College athletes participating in indoor sports at risk of vitamin D deficiency

Cream infused with microscopic STAR particles could facilitate better treatment of skin diseases

New imaging agent illuminates cancerous tumors and surrounding cells

Researchers develop a microfluidic chip to help detect prostate cancer

A previously unknown mechanism could be new therapeutic target for cancer immunotherapy

Climate change, urbanization expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon

Baylor College of Medicine and UH team up for new research collaborations

Postmenopausal breast cancer and the benefit of genetic testing

Research introduces a new concept of resectability in pancreatic cancer

Patients using copper IUDs have lower cervical cancer risk compared to LNG-IUS users

The second person cured from HIV goes public

NCCN publishes recommendations for assessing quality improvements in cancer care

Researchers find way to inactivate cancer protein with the help of another protein

Combination of anti-cancer nanodrugs with Intralipid enhances therapeutic efficacy

Study finds dramatic increase in the incidence of bowel cancer among adults under 50

Colorectal cancer rates are increasing rapidly among young adults, study reveals

Research reveals bias and stereotyping when recruiting patients for oncology clinical trials

Knowing more about new infectious disease threat may not satisfy people

A copper-binding protein influences breast cancer cell migration

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