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Review focuses on sustaining smoking cessation support in lung cancer screening programs
Researchers from Flinders University say that building lung cancer screening programs that include strong, consistent and long-term quit-smoking support could play a crucial role in preventing smoking-related deaths. The ...
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Well-timed nudges help care providers to honor the wishes of patients with cancer according to study
New research in the June 2026 issue of Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that small, targeted prompts delivered to both patients and providers at the right moment can significantly increase the number ...
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How H. pylori uses extracellular vesicles to drive stomach cancer
Scientists at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research have discovered how Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium responsible for most stomach cancers and peptic ulcers, delivers a key disease-causing protein into human cells. ...
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FDA approves combination therapy for higher-risk clear cell kidney cancer after surgery
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy, plus belzutifan, a HIF-2α inhibitor, as adjuvant treatment for adult patients with renal cell carcinoma with a clear cell component ...
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Why glioblastoma keeps beating treatment: Hidden signaling axis could open new drug path
An international study led by a scientist at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine is opening new frontiers in the fight against glioblastoma (GB), a devastating cancer behind the most malignant and treatment-resistant ...
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Integrating genetic origin data with tumor analyses enables better prediction of survival
New research to be presented today at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics shows that a cancer patient's genetic ancestry can have a significant effect both on how their disease progresses and their ...
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Sugar-coated CAR-T cells survive longer and shrink lymphoma tumors in mice
Scientists at Florida International University may have found a way to make a powerful cancer treatment work even better. The treatment, called CAR-T therapy, uses a patient's own immune cells to fight cancer. Doctors remove ...
Jun 13, 2026
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How a simple blood test could help detect heart damage during breast cancer treatment
Modern breast cancer screening and treatment have transformed survival. Many women now live long and healthy lives after diagnosis, thanks to increasingly effective chemotherapy and targeted therapies: medicines designed ...
Jun 13, 2026
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Women's thyroid cancer risk may be linked to reproductive lifespan and hormone therapy
Longer lifetime exposure to female hormones may increase the risk of thyroid cancer in women, according to a study presented at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Chicago. The research suggests reproductive ...
Jun 13, 2026
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Q&A: Researcher provides insights into melanoma prognosis
Each year, more than 6,000 Swedes are diagnosed with melanoma. Melanoma is a form of skin cancer that, if detected late, can be fatal. Not all melanomas behave in the same way. A new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet ...
Jun 13, 2026
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End-of-life care metric tracks how time grows more valuable for terminal cancer patients
A research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied how patients with advanced cancer seek care during the final stages of their lives. By studying their care patterns, the research team has developed a measurement method ...
Jun 13, 2026
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Early heart changes may predict cancer years before diagnosis, long-term study suggests
A new study led by UCLA Health physician-scientists suggests that subtle changes in heart structure and function may signal an increased risk of developing certain cancers years later. The findings, published in the Journal ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Metal-free carbon monoxide prodrugs may help prevent cancer's deadly spread
A carefully designed metal-free carbon monoxide prodrug—an inactive compound that is converted into its active form in the body—may help prevent some of the deadliest forms of cancer from spreading, according to researchers ...
Jun 12, 2026
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COPA mutations reveal alternative trigger for small intestine tumors
A signaling system known as the Wnt pathway plays a central role in how cells in the intestine grow, divide and renew themselves. Decades of research have shown that disruption of this pathway is a defining feature of many ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Refined pseudo-germ-free mice reveal gut microbes' role in pancreatic cancer
Researchers at National Taiwan University refined a pseudo-germ-free mouse model to make gut microbiome studies safer for mice and more reliable. Using this model, they found that antibiotic-driven changes in gut microbes ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Hard-to-detect prostate cancer may grow through cancer-stroma KRAS signaling
A research team at Kanazawa University, led by Professor Atsushi Mizokami, Associate Professor Koji Izumi and Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Taiki Kamishima (a fourth-year doctoral student at the Graduate School ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Supercharged natural killer cells suppress solid tumors in mice
Scientists have made great progress in harnessing the body's own immune cells to treat so-called liquid tumors, cancers of the blood and lymphatic system. Yet these powerful cell therapies have been no match for solid tumors, ...
Jun 11, 2026
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New antibody may boost KRAS-targeted lung cancer treatment after resistance emerges
An experimental antibody treatment that binds to a protein known as PCDH7 shrank tumors in preclinical models of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), including those resistant to a targeted therapy, a study led by UT Southwestern ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Cancer drug combo activates inflammatory signal that could boost immune response
What if a new combination of cancer drugs could sound an alarm, alerting the body's immune system to invoke a targeted response to cancer cells? Findings from a new study appear in a paper published in Nucleic Acids Research.
Jun 11, 2026
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How body clock may shape inflammation, cancer risk and timing of future treatments
Daily life is shaped by the solar day, influencing when we wake up, eat, work and sleep. Inside the body, a similar internal timing system—present in nearly every cell—known as the circadian clock synchronizes many biological ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Mesothelioma cases and deaths keep rising in US despite decades of asbestos regulation
Mesothelioma deaths and diagnoses continue to rise in the United States despite decades of asbestos regulation and reduced industrial use, according to a new national analysis from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part ...
Jun 11, 2026
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New treatment shows promise for patients with rare blood disorder
A new treatment that involves growing a patient's immune cells and then infusing them back into their body has shown promise for people with the rare blood disorder aplastic anemia. Results from the Phase 1 trial, led by ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Joint Korea-Japan research finds no evidence linking mobile phone radio frequency exposure to cancer
A large-scale international collaborative animal study found no statistically significant association between long-term exposure to radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF) emitted by mobile phones and the incidence ...
Jun 11, 2026
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CRISPR enzyme precisely detects and shreds DNA in cancer mutations once considered 'undruggable'
In 2020, Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology that allows scientists to precisely modify DNA by cutting it at specific locations. Six years later, a new ...
'Molecular eraser' destroys cancerous mRNA before protein forms, reshaping cancer cells
Many of the deadliest forms of cancer are caused by a pathological mutation in the RAS protein. Yet, to date, no effective treatment for this cancer protein has been found. A new research approach aims to prevent the protein ...
Jun 10, 2026
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