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Breast cancer risk varies between different hormonal contraceptives, research reveals
Some common hormonal contraceptives are linked to a slightly higher risk of breast cancer than others. This is shown by a Swedish study from Uppsala University, in which researchers followed more than two million women and ...
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From antibiotics to antimalarials: How repurposed drugs might keep cancer from returning
Many cancer survivors live with the worry that their cancer might come back. This "recurrence" occurs when cancer cells hide somewhere in the body—like in the bone marrow—and start growing again, sometimes years later. ...
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Mutation yields hot new clues for treating immune 'cold' tumors
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) emerged in the US about 15 years ago as an exciting class of cancer treatments that have achieved complete and durable remissions for thousands of people with end-stage metastatic cancers. ...
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Capturing cancer cells from blood could help doctors choose the right breast cancer treatment
Doctors may be able to spare patients unnecessarily aggressive breast cancer treatments by collecting and testing cancer cells in patients' blood, research from the University of Michigan and the University of Kansas suggests.
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New technology restores chemotherapy effectiveness against resistant cancer cells
Scientists from King's College London have successfully applied a new technology that disarms one of the most potent weapons cancer cells use to weaken the effects of chemotherapy drugs.
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Online tool identifies and ranks community factors that predict cancer disparities
A new study published in JAMA Network Open by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute reveals poverty, environmental risks, housing issues, and physical inactivity are top-ranking community-level predictors of disparities ...
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Enhancing the body's 'first responder' cells may boost immune therapy for cancer
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a specific immune cell that can be targeted to give a boost to standard immunotherapies for cancer. Two research teams, working collaboratively but using distinct approaches, found ...
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Demographic disparities found in uptake of colorectal cancer screenings
Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is considered one of the most effective and successful tools to protect public health: Screening has been found to significantly reduce the incidence of CRC through the removal of precancerous ...
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Challenging conventional wisdom on a common cause of melanoma
University of Queensland researchers have found that a genetic mutation that causes melanoma can lie dormant in healthy skin, a finding that could improve screening of areas more prone to the disease.
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Additional testing of FISH-negative tests for renal cell carcinoma can improve kidney cancer diagnosis
A study from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center and Department of Pathology shows that further testing in renal cell carcinoma with an overexpression of gene TRIM63 could uncover a mutation otherwise undetected, ...
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Implantable 'CANDI' wafer shows promise for preventing glioblastoma recurrence
Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain cancer that almost always recurs after surgery and radiochemotherapy. Now, researchers have developed a biodegradable implant that can be placed directly into the brain cavity after tumor ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Why are so many millennials getting cancer?
If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you, like me, are a millennial. If so, you've probably noticed more and more cases of friends or acquaintances with diseases that you would normally associate with later ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Radiation therapy for patients with breast cancer
Radiation therapy is a common component of breast cancer treatment for patients. The high-powered beams of intense energy kill cancer cells and reduce the risk of the cancer recurring.
Oct 29, 2025
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Discovery of breast cancer treatment resistance mechanism could lead to new hope for some
Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a key reason why certain breast cancers might not respond to an important new class of therapeutics called antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). These treatments pair an antibody that targets ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Drugs approved for treating pain may also reduce bone cancer growth
Peripheral afferent neurons—nerves that send signals from all areas of the body to the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord)—are known to infiltrate and grow within malignant bone tumors called osteosarcomas, ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Custom-designed protein receptors help T cells target solid tumors more effectively
Cancer immunotherapy, especially using T cells, is showing a lot of promise in treating blood cancers. Bioengineered T cells, especially those equipped with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR-T cells), have revolutionized cancer ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Protecting the gut after stem cell transplantation: New evidence uncovered for potential of microbiome-based therapies
Patients receiving intensive cancer treatments—such as radiation or stem cell transplantation—often suffer from severe damage to the intestinal lining. This not only causes pain and complications but also worsens long-term ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Study finds higher breast cancer rates in areas with more air pollution
Women living in parts of the United States with lower air quality, especially neighborhoods with heavy emissions from motor vehicles, are more likely to develop breast cancer, according to a multiyear analysis involving more ...
Oct 28, 2025
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AI models help pinpoint key neoantigens for personalized skin cancer vaccines
In a new study, University of Arizona researchers created a model for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, and identified two mutated tumor proteins, or neoantigens, that contain features of good candidates ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Inhibiting a problematic protein helps immunotherapies, CAR T-cell therapy to fight off melanoma more effectively
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, can't always be removed with a scalpel.
Oct 28, 2025
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In-surgery radiation cuts pancreatic cancer return
Using targeted radiation during surgery—referred to as intraoperative radiation—to eliminate pancreatic cancer cells that have spread to areas around the pancreas, investigators at Johns Hopkins have been able to reduce ...
Oct 28, 2025
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New study highlights need for coordinated approach to stomach cancer screening and prevention
Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, largely because most individuals are not diagnosed until after the cancer has progressed to a late stage.
Oct 28, 2025
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AI tool identifies women at high risk of interval breast cancer
In a study of more than 100,000 screening mammograms, researchers demonstrated the potential of an AI tool to help identify women at higher risk of developing interval breast cancer, which is breast cancer that is diagnosed ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Potential cancer outcome differences among psoriasis biologics found
Copenhagen University Hospital–Herlev and Gentofte led a nationwide registry study that the authors claim shows a "pattern suggesting" a lower five-year risk of any first cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) with ...
Localized IL-12 delivery reshapes CAR-T safety in solid tumors
An international collaboration of researchers, including Imperial College London and UCLA, has developed a collagen-binding interleukin 12 strategy that lets CAR-T cells treat prostate cancer in mice while curbing previously ...
