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Scientists zero in on cellular mechanism fueling drug-resistant cancers

The mystery of how cancers build up resistance mechanisms and evade the treatments that should have destroyed them is a hugely pressing question. Overcoming cancer treatment resistance—a phenomenon that contributes to as ...

Oncology & Cancer

A new way to treat cancer: Targeting the Hedgehog protein's hidden weakness

A discovery with major implications for cancer treatment has been made by a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), University of Binghamton, and ...

Oncology & Cancer

How metabolic chatter between cells undermines anti-tumor immunity

A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a complex chain of molecular chatter by which cancer cells, exploiting ordinary metabolic processes, program one set of noncancerous cells to manipulate another set of such cells ...

Oncology & Cancer

A new framework for understanding and tackling CAR T toxicities

Immunotherapy using CAR T cells is finding ever more applications. In addition to their use in the treatment of blood and lymphatic cancers, CAR T cells are now also being investigated for solid tumors and various autoimmune ...

Oncology & Cancer

Trove of genetic data to spur cancer research released

In an effort to foster progress in cancer research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing detailed and comprehensive data about the entire genetic content of a pancreatic cancer cell. Scientists ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI model achieves high accuracy for liver tumor segmentation

Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer globally and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Accurate segmentation of liver tumors is a crucial step for the management of the disease, but manual segmentation by radiologists ...

Oncology & Cancer

More young women are getting breast cancer—why?

At some point in their lifetimes, approximately one out of every eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer. That estimate from the American Cancer Society becomes even more troubling when considering ...

Medical research

Potential anti-breast cancer drug identified

A surgeon can excise breast cancer from the body, but even the most skilled scalpel may not be able to remove every cell—especially when the cells have spread from the original disease site elsewhere in the body.