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Psychosocial factors may not affect overall cancer risk, large-scale analysis suggests
New research indicates that psychosocial factors—which influence how a person perceives, interprets, and reacts to their surroundings—do not affect an individual's risk of developing cancer. The findings, titled "Psychosocial ...
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HPV-positive cancers hide from the immune system, but blocking a single protein could make the tumors treatable
A team of scientists at Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences have uncovered a mechanism that allows certain head and neck cancers to hide from the immune system, a discovery that could change how ...
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Not all cancer mutations are equal: Mutation strength in a single gene shapes tumor behavior
Cancer is often thought of as a single disease. Yet even tumors that arise in the same organ can follow very different genetic paths. A new study shows that these differences can sometimes be traced back to tiny changes in ...
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Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention, but misinformation about mRNA abounds
Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential to significantly boost the immune system's ability to fight and eliminate tumors.
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Q&A: What to know about colorectal cancer and its recent prevalence among young people
Colorectal cancer, a type of cancer that affects the colon or rectum, is the second leading cause of cancer-related death and the third most common cause of death or type of cancer. It is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related ...
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Could Ozempic help people whose cancer has spread to the brain?
Weight-loss injections that have become famous for helping people shed pounds may also help some patients with advanced cancer live longer when the disease has spread to the brain, according to a new study.
Mar 22, 2026
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A blood test may tailor breast cancer treatment for older women
For women age 70 and over with a common form of breast cancer, determining "the right size" of treatment can be challenging, in part because clinicians have limited tools to guide individualized treatment decisions. In a ...
Mar 21, 2026
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How exercise can lower your cancer risk
Exercise. It can be hard for a lot of us to get started. Regardless of how you feel about physical activity, it comes with various benefits. One benefit of exercise that is not often recognized is its assistance in lowering ...
Mar 21, 2026
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Study finds FGFR1 boosts cholesterol uptake in prostate cancer cells
Researchers at Texas A&M Health have identified a molecular mechanism that increases cholesterol levels inside prostate cancer cells—an important process that may help explain how some tumors progress and become resistant ...
Mar 21, 2026
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Deep learning model predicts how individual cells influence disease outcomes
A computational method called scSurv, developed by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo, links individual cells to patient outcomes using widely available bulk RNA sequencing data. The approach uses single-cell reference ...
Mar 20, 2026
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Home-based chemotherapy: Pilot study demonstrates safety and feasibility
In a study published in NEJM Catalyst, Mayo Clinic researchers demonstrate that chemotherapy can be safely delivered in patients' homes. The study evaluated Mayo Clinic's Cancer CARE Beyond Walls (Connected Access and Remote ...
Mar 20, 2026
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Study addresses alcohol-cancer awareness gap
Most people in the United States who drink alcohol do not know it raises their cancer risk. A new study co-authored by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers found that educational messaging is effective ...
Mar 20, 2026
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New 'fishhook' bonds help T cells stick longer to prostate cancer cells
UCLA and Stanford Medicine researchers, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Utah and Columbia University, have engineered a new class of supercharged T cells that are stronger, longer-lasting, and more ...
Mar 19, 2026
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A liquid biopsy blood test may improve children's survival of cancer in Africa
In a study published in Nature Medicine, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania have shown that a minimally invasive liquid ...
Mar 19, 2026
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Masked T‑cell engagers: Cancer immunotherapies for the future?
A new immunotherapy drug has demonstrated early promise in a recent prostate cancer clinical trial. The drug, called VIR-5500, is a "masked T-cell engager." This type of immunotherapy ignites our own immune arsenal to fight ...
Mar 19, 2026
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Awareness of alcohol-cancer link holds steady despite omission from new US dietary guidelines
Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and elevated cancer risk remains unchanged since February 2025, with over half of Americans saying that regularly consuming alcohol increases your chances of later developing ...
Mar 19, 2026
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Student shines a light on rare colon cancer
Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in the U.S., with more than 100,000 cases diagnosed each year. But some people develop a highly aggressive form of colon cancer that is extremely rare, making up 0.02% to 0.1% ...
Mar 19, 2026
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Research leads to new lifeline for leukemia patients
After repeated unsuccessful cancer treatments, even the strongest patients can lose hope. But former University of Virginia School of Medicine assistant professors Tomasz Cierpicki and Jolanta Grembecka are working to restore ...
Mar 19, 2026
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Long dismissed in adult health, the thymus may be critical for longevity and cancer treatment
Two new studies from investigators at Mass General Brigham challenge a decades-old assumption that the thymus, an organ best known for its role in establishing immune function in childhood, becomes irrelevant in adulthood. ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Scientists create cancer-fighting immune cells right in the body
For years, one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers, called CAR-T cell therapy, has required an elaborate process: Doctors extract a patient's immune cells, ship them to a specialized facility where ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Antioxidant serves as an unexpected food source for tumors, scientists discover
Researchers have discovered an antioxidant, glutathione, that cancer cells appear to be "addicted to" as fuel, opening new pathways for investigation and a potential drug that can restrict the way tumors use this nutrient.
Mar 18, 2026
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Combination treatment benefits patients with advanced breast cancer that has spread to the brain
Patients with leptomeningeal metastasis (LM) have historically had few treatment options. Now, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a combination of targeted therapies, tucatinib and ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Cellular stress signal found to drive immune exhaustion and weaken cancer therapy
Cancer-fighting T cells do not simply "run out of energy." They are molecularly reprogrammed. For years, mitochondrial dysfunction has been recognized as a hallmark of exhausted T cells in tumors. Yet how metabolic stress ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Cholecystokinin, not insulin, may be key hormone in obesity-driven pancreatic cancer
Obesity increases the body's need for insulin, forcing cells in the pancreas known as beta cells to ramp up insulin production to maintain blood sugar levels. Scientists have thought that this excessive insulin secretion ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Why some breast cancers spread faster: Jagged1 may trigger a tissue-stiffening feedback loop
A research group led by Professor Cecilia Sahlgren at Åbo Akademi University (Finland) and the InFLAMES Research Flagship has identified a new mechanism directing the adverse remodeling of tumor tissue during breast cancer ...
Mar 18, 2026
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