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Lymph nodes found to be key to successful cancer immunotherapy
A team of researchers, led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), explored the cellular and molecular interactions revealing how lymph nodes play a crucial role in the fight against ...
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Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses, paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment
When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and cells have been responding by evolving ...
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'Molecular glue' harnesses the power of the immune system to treat neuroblastoma
Gene expression governs whether neuroblastoma tumor cells exist in either the adrenergic (differentiated and sensitive to treatment) or mesenchymal (less differentiated and therapy-resistant) cell state. Tumors may switch ...
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New personalized risk score could improve ovarian cancer detection
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated a new tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve patient outcomes cost-effectively.
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Blood test to rule out esophageal cancer
Proteomics International has launched PromarkerEso at the ISDE World Congress in Brisbane (18–20 September). PromarkerEso is a world-first protein biomarker-based blood diagnostic that can rule out esophageal adenocarcinoma ...
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Getting the facts on ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is relatively rare. However, it's often fatal in later stages of the disease. The cancer begins in the ovaries and spreads to the abdomen and pelvis if it isn't diagnosed and treated early. It primarily affects ...
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Promising preclinical therapy exploits ALK protein to selectively destroy tumors while sparing healthy cells
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) unveiled a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that shows striking efficacy against cancers that express the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) protein on the cancer ...
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Promising drug combinations for immunotherapy-resistant melanoma may also help reactivate immune system
Researchers at Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) in San Francisco, Calif. have identified potential new therapeutic strategies for patients with advanced melanoma who no longer respond to immunotherapy—an ...
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Lymph node study reveals how aggressive breast cancer evades immune detection
In almost all solid tumors—i.e. cancers with a solid tissue structure—the detection of tumor cells in the lymph nodes is considered a decisive marker for the progression of the disease. Lymph node involvement has a significant ...
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Bout of cystitis may signal presence of urogenital cancers in middle-aged adults
A bout of the common bladder infection, cystitis, may signal the presence of urogenital cancers—which affect parts of the body involved in reproduction and excretion—in middle-aged adults, suggests research published ...
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As pesticides and wildfires rise, kids with cancer need resources
A growing body of research ties environmental pollutants to worse health and shorter life spans for childhood cancer survivors. Yet medical providers lack sufficient resources to address these risks with patients, a recent ...
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Two-part prodrug system activates immune attack only in tumor's unique environment
Scientists have developed a smarter way to activate the immune system against cancer, potentially making treatments safer and more precise.
Sep 16, 2025
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Integrated metabolic analysis reveals cancer's energy secrets
A research group led by The University of Osaka has developed a novel method for analyzing cancer metabolism, revealing new insights into cancer's inefficient energy process.
Sep 16, 2025
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Biomarkers linked to side effects from cancer immunotherapy
A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists has identified early signals from the immune system that could help predict which cancer patients are most likely to develop harmful side effects from immunotherapy. ...
Sep 16, 2025
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Too soon to tell if 'liquid biopsies' help more than harm in cancer screening
"Liquid biopsy" tests using blood samples to screen for multiple types of cancer are attracting much attention, for their potential to catch unseen tumors.
Sep 16, 2025
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GD2 CAR T treatment induces durable remissions in high-risk neuroblastoma
From Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome comes a report that a third-generation CAR T cell therapy targeting GD2, designated GD2–CART01, induced durable remissions and long-term survival in children with high-risk ...
Research links DNA replication failure to cancer therapy
A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals that cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) promote DNA replication licensing in human cells by relieving inhibitory signals from RB tumor suppressor ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Fast walking linked to lower lung cancer risk: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention
A research team in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has conducted a pioneering study that found an association between walking speed and cancer ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Machine learning model helps predict urgent care visits for lung cancer patients
A study published in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics demonstrates that machine learning models incorporating patient-reported outcomes and wearable sensor data can predict which patients with non–small cell lung cancer ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Review calls for age-specific immunotherapy in childhood brain tumors
Pediatric brain tumors are the deadliest form of childhood cancer, yet most treatments are adapted from adult care and often miss the mark. A new study led by a second-year medical student at Dell Medical School at The University ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Study finds primary-care doctors often overlook prostate cancer risk in Black men
Although Black men die of prostate cancer at twice the rate of the rest of U.S. males, this fact often is not known or considered during appointments with their primary-care clinicians to discuss a common screening test.
Sep 13, 2025
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Microbial allies: Bacteria help fight against cancer
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College London and the University of Cologne have discovered that microbes associated with tumors produce a ...
Sep 12, 2025
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Using deep learning for precision cancer therapy
Nearly 50 new cancer therapies are approved every year. This is good news. "But for patients and their treating physicians, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track and to select the treatment methods from which ...
Sep 12, 2025
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Antigen amplification strategy shows promise for more precise next-generation immunotherapies
Tumor immunotherapies, especially those leveraging T-cells to identify and eliminate cancer cells, represent a major breakthrough in cancer treatment. However, many tumor-associated antigens are not expressed at a high enough ...
Sep 12, 2025
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Identifying the interactions that drive cell migration in brain cancer
To move forward or migrate, the different cells in our body must exert forces or interact with their surrounding environment. Interestingly, however, a fault in these interactions can also be the reason for the spread of ...
Sep 12, 2025
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