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Patient-centered financial navigation assistance helps reduce financial toxicity among cancer patients
Among cancer patients, the high financial cost of cancer care is a prevalent problem. This financial burden is also associated with potentially harmful behavioral strategies that patients might use to cope with costs, such ...
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When cancer turns critical, the patient isn't the only one suffering
While doctors fight to save the lives of cancer patients in intensive care, family members, partners and friends are often left carrying a heavy burden of their own, with research revealing widespread anxiety, depression, ...
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Fueling growth, blinding immunity: The two-way amino acid trap inside tumors
Tumors possess myriad mechanisms to ensure their survival even at the peril of the host. Now scientists are delving deeper into how cancer cells alter the metabolism of specific amino acids to support the malignancy's growth ...
Head-to-head comparison of three mRNA vaccines reveals differences in their stability in human blood
A study by Australian researchers compared three mRNA-LNP vaccine platforms in human blood samples, generating findings that could advance cancer treatment and vaccine design.
Oct 16, 2026
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Study finds common chemicals may alter normal breast development
Exposure to common chemicals may alter how normal human breast tissue develops, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Boston University. The findings, published in the Proceedings ...
Oct 16, 2026
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DNA sequencing reveals how rare cancer spread between twins before birth
Two identical sisters came into the world carrying the same rare cancer. They lost their lives to an undifferentiated sarcoma, a soft-tissue cancer driven by a unique gene fusion (MN1::ZNF341). The story began before they ...
Molecular imaging demonstrates promise for predicting complete pathologic response in HER2-positive breast cancer
Molecular imaging with ⁶⁸Ga-HER2 PET/CT may provide an early, targeted measure of how well treatment is working in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.
Oct 16, 2026
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Genomic cancer driver study reveals new clues to why some prostate cancers become aggressive
Why do some prostate cancers grow slowly for years, while others progress quickly to life-threatening metastatic disease? An international team of researchers co-led by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Structurally guided therapy shows promise for patients with specific EGFR-mutated lung cancer
For patients with EGFR PACC-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the targeted therapy firmonertinib achieved durable antitumor activity in a Phase Ib trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Inflammatory breast cancer: Fast-moving form often lacks lump as warning sign
Inflammatory breast cancer is a fast-moving cancer that doesn't usually form a lump; instead, the skin on one breast changes rapidly, explains Tina Hieken, M.D., a surgical oncologist at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Oct 16, 2026
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Lab-grown tumors reveal immune cells capable of killing small cell lung cancer
Researchers have uncovered a previously overlooked immune cell that can recognize and kill small cell lung cancer, the most aggressive form of the disease globally. Published in Cancer Cell, the WEHI study found patients ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Protein modification partially reverses cancer-related muscle wasting in preclinical study
Cachexia is one of the most severe forms of muscle wasting in humans. It affects up to 80% of cancer patients and is caused by cancer cytokines—pro-inflammatory signaling molecules—that are released by the tumor cells themselves. ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Researchers identify key pathway that drives T-cell exhaustion in cancer immunotherapy
Researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center used a CRISPR screen to identify a key molecular pathway that drives exhaustion in cancer-fighting immune cells, limiting their ability to keep tumors under ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Antibody screening approach could speed development of immune-based cancer treatments
A team led by Harvard Medical School researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has developed a faster way to identify and engineer cancer-fighting therapies.
Oct 15, 2026
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AI could help predict which HPV infections progress to cancer
For several decades, researchers have sought to identify biomarkers capable of accurately predicting the outcome of an infection with a high-risk oncogenic HPV type. Despite significant advances, no viral, immune-related ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Lactation drug could reduce breast cancer risk after childbirth, study suggests
An international team of scientists has found that a lactation drug could reduce the risk of breast cancer in mothers after childbirth. Cabergoline, a medication used to stop milk production after pregnancy loss or when breastfeeding ...
Oct 15, 2026
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How cell type influences the impact of cancer-related protein activity in colorectal cancer
Research has revealed that the role of an important protein in colorectal cancer may vary significantly depending on which cells it is active in. The study, published in the journal npj Precision Oncology, shows that activity ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Research reveals keys to helping colon cancer survivors boost motivation to stay active
New research shows how colon cancer survivors can overcome mental hurdles to stick with long-term exercise—a shift in mindset that could lower their risk of the disease coming back and improve their chances of survival.
Oct 15, 2026
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Rural women face higher death rates for breast cancer—and the gap is widening
Women from rural locales are becoming less and less likely to survive a bout with breast cancer, a pair of new studies from the American Cancer Society show. Breast cancer death rates are now higher in rural areas than in ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Study finds a lower cancer risk after obesity surgery regardless of age or sex
Bariatric surgery reduces the risk of obesity-related cancer regardless of sex and age, according to a large Nordic registry study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. The results, published in JAMA Surgery, strengthen ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Common deworming drug helps restore lung cancer's sensitivity to targeted therapy in mice
A form of lung cancer, which is found in about 10%–15% of Western patients and 40%–50% of Asian patients, is driven by a mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene. Gefitinib is a go-to drug that shuts down ...
Ovaries remain active decades after menopause, study reveals
Contrary to popular belief, the postmenopausal ovary is not defunct. In a new study of ovaries from 28 women, scientists at Northwestern University and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging found that in the decades well ...
Oct 14, 2026
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Insights about cachexia, one of cancer's most common complications, hiding in routine patient data
Cancer cachexia has long been one of oncology's most stubborn unsolved problems. This severe, uncontrollable wasting affects roughly half of all cancer patients. It makes treatment harder to tolerate, erodes a person's quality ...
Oct 14, 2026
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Cancer-promoting protein also helps engineered immune cells fight tumors in lab tests
Colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer-related death for people under 50. Its most common forms generally aren't treatable, either through conventional means like chemotherapy or newer immunotherapy drugs.
Oct 14, 2026
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What happens when brain tumors return? International study tracks genetic changes behind recurring cancers
When patients are diagnosed with certain brain tumors, one of the biggest unanswered questions is what happens when the cancer returns. Among those are IDH-mutant gliomas, a group of brain tumors that invariably recur despite ...
Oct 14, 2026
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