Cancer News
October 21, 2024
Top Headlines
Oct. 21, 2024 — The protein factories of our cells are much more diverse than we thought they were. Scientists have now shown that cancer cells can use these so-called ribosomes to boost their invisibility cloak, helping them hide from the immune ...
Oct. 21, 2024 — A new PET scan reliably detects benign tumors in the pancreas, according to new research. Current scans often fail to detect these insulinomas, even though they cause symptoms due to low blood sugar levels. Once the tumor is found, surgery is ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Research provides evidence that a drug used to slow the progression of the disease ALS shows promise in suppressing the self-renewing cancerous stem cells that challenge the present standards of care for these lethal grade 4 brain ...
Oct. 18, 2024 — Researchers have developed an in vitro cancer model to investigate why breast cancer spreads to bone. Their findings hold promise for advancing the development of preclinical tools to predict breast cancer bone ...
Latest Headlines
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Oct. 17, 2024 — New research provides scientific evidence that a healthy diet may reduce the chance of low risk prostate cancer progressing to a more aggressive ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — A team tests the protective effect of a fermented black garlic extract against inflammation and the progression of prostate cancer in a study conducted on human prostate cancer cell models in the ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Innovative application of an existing drug offers promising alternative treatment to traditional chemotherapy for patients with appendix ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Black men with advanced prostate cancer have a greater chance of survival after immunotherapy treatment, at least in part, because of ancestral gene ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers found a higher concentration of a specific kind of DNA -- extrachromosomal or ecDNA -- in more aggressive and advanced cancers that could mark them as targets for future therapies. They ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers developed an approach to treating prostate cancer, successfully eliminating cancerous cells in 73% of patients in the ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers discovered they could boost survival to 92% for patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma by adding the immunotherapy nivolumab to a current treatment regimen. This is compared to 83% ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Scientists developed a way of using artificial intelligence to check for skin cancer with the AI tool, which was trained on data from 53,601 skin lesions from 25,105 patients, outperforming existing ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Novel chemical compounds from a fungus could provide new perspectives for treating colorectal cancer, one of the most common and deadliest cancers worldwide. Researchers have reported on the ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile or C. diff. In animal ...
Earlier Headlines
Oct. 17, 2024 — It may soon be possible to determine which patients with a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma would benefit from immunotherapy, according to a preclinical ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — A new study has provided a detailed analysis of how mRNA vaccines circulate and break down in the human bloodstream. The research aimed to help improve the safety and effectiveness of these vaccines, ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — A commonly used strategy in the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) medicine is based on the destruction of disease-causing mRNA. Achieving the opposite and stabilizing health-promoting mRNA is still ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a new process in our immune systems that leads to the production of an important family of anti-viral proteins called interferons. They hope the discovery will now lead to ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — Bacteria-based therapies represent an exciting breakthrough in cancer treatment, harnessing their remarkable ability to specifically target and attack tumors. To fully harness the potential of this ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — Hormone-driven cancers, like those of the breast and prostate, often rely on a tricky-to-target protein called Forkhead box protein 1 (FOXA1). FOXA1 mutations can enable these types of cancers to ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — Distinct immune 'signatures' in patients who develop adverse events while taking immunotherapy for cancer may help oncologists identify patients at risk and treat them early to prevent ...
Oct. 14, 2024 — A protein that is involved in determining which enzymes cut or unwind DNA during the replication process has been ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method to recreate a robust and functional human immune system in mice using mononuclear cells from the cord blood. This new kind of mice, that count with most of the ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Analyzing the genetics of patients that responded well to checkpoint blockade revealed mutations in the gene Asxl1 in immune T cells. Disrupting the Asxl1 gene in T cells enhanced response to immune ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Chemists have developed a new chemical reaction that will allow researchers to synthesize selectively the left-handed or right-handed versions of 'mirror molecules' found in nature and ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — A new study has punctured a longstanding assumption about the source of the most common type of DNA mutation seen in the genome--one that contributes to many genetic diseases, including ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — A new study has found some cancers to be slightly more frequent in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) than in people without MS. Types of cancers found to have a small increased risk include ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers have created a CRISPR-based rapid molecular diagnostic for two forms of leukemia that are driven by mutations that involve gene fusions. The technology accurately detects the presence of ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most aggressive and deadly type of breast cancer, but new findings from cancer researchers are pointing the way toward therapeutic strategies that ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that patients with metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring specific mutations in the STK11 and/or KEAP1 tumor suppressor genes were more ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — How bladder cancer originates and progresses has been illuminated as never before. Researchers found that antiviral enzymes that mutate the DNA of normal and cancer cells are key promoters of early ...
Oct. 8, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that the kinase enzyme DAPK3 is elevated in triple-negative breast cancer cells where it regulates migration of the cancerous cells. The findings prompted the team to ...
Oct. 8, 2024 — A new tool detects the evolutionary advantages of multiple myeloma cells over the different treatments available. The information it provides can help prevent the tumor from becoming resistant to ...
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Biomarker May Predict Immunotherapy Response in Liver Cancer
- Study May Help Boost Performance and Reduce Side Effects of mRNA Vaccines
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Don't Kill the Messenger RNA!
- Bacterial Vaccine Shows Promise as Cancer Immunotherapy
- 'Two for the Price of One' Scientists Discover New Process to Drive Anti-Viral Immunity
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- New Bacteria-Based Therapy Shows Promise for Fighting Cancer
- Scientists Discover Chemical Probes for Previously 'undruggable' Cancer Target
- Immune Signatures May Predict Adverse Events from Immunotherapy
Monday, October 14, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- Disrupting Asxl1 Gene Prevents T-Cell Exhaustion, Improving Immunotherapy
- A Look Into 'mirror Molecules' May Lead to New Medicines
- The Cause of the Genome's Most Common Mutation Has Been Reassigned
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- Do People With MS Have an Increased Risk of Cancer?
- Rapid Blood Cancer Diagnostic Could Speed Decisions and Save Lives
- New Therapeutic Strategy Identified for Triple Negative Breast Cancer
- Dual Immunotherapy Plus Chemotherapy Benefits Specific Subset of Patients With Lung Cancer
- Study Uncovers Mutations and DNA Structures Driving Bladder Cancer
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- DAPK3 Emerges as a New Regulator of Migration of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells
- A New Technique That Makes Competition Between Tumor Cells Visible Can Help Personalize Treatments for Multiple Myeloma
Monday, October 7, 2024
- Common Breast Cancer Treatments May Speed Aging Process
- Harnessing Natural Killer T Cells to Advance Cancer Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors
- Study Explores Novel Therapeutic Treatment for Glioblastoma
- An Early Blood Test Can Predict Survival in Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer
- Scientists Discover That Special Immune Cells Stop Metastatic Cancer
- Cancer Biologists Discover a New Mechanism for an Old Drug
- Promising Cell Therapy Offers Hope for Relapsed or Refractory T-Cell Leukaemia
Friday, October 4, 2024
- Drug Improves Effectiveness of Radiation for Lung Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain
- Multiple Myeloma: Cilta-Cel Found Highly Effective in Real-World Study
- Research Points to Potential New Treatment for Aggressive Prostate Cancer Subtype
- Role of Gamma-Delta T Cells in Cancer Immunology
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- Balancing Health: Diabetes and Obesity Increase Risk of Liver Cancer Relapse
- Faster, More Sensitive Lung Cancer Detection from a Blood Draw
- New Imaging Technique Accurately Detects Aggressive Kidney Cancer
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- Scientist Develops New Model for Ovarian Cancer -- With Crossover to Uterine Cancer
- Rare Lung Cancer: Gene Activation Determines Mild or Aggressive Course
- Scientists Decode Key Mutation in Many Cancers
- Insights Into KRAS Mutations in Pancreatic Cancers
- Planning a Drug's Route in the Body With Synthetic Chemistry
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Seeing Double: Designing Drugs That Target 'twin' Cancer Proteins
- Large-Scale Atlas of How Immune Cells React to Mutations During Cancer Immunotherapy
- New Therapeutic Approach to Preventing Cancer from Spreading to the Brain
- Promising TB Therapy Appears Safe for Patients With HIV
- Epigenetic Hallmarks That Define Cancer
- More Clarity on Hereditary Colorectal Cancer
Monday, September 30, 2024
- Radon, Even at Levels Below EPA Guideline for Mitigation, Is Linked to Childhood Leukemia
- Most Accurate Ultrasound Test Could Detect 96% of Women With Ovarian Cancer
- Medical Imaging Breakthrough Could Transform Cancer and Arthritis Diagnosis
- AI 'liquid Biopsies' Using Cell-Free DNA, Protein Biomarkers, Could Aid Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
- Proteins in Meat, Milk, and Other Foods Suppress Gut Tumors
- Circadian Disruption, Gut Microbiome Changes Linked to Colorectal Cancer Progression
Friday, September 27, 2024
- Researchers Discover What Hinders DNA Repair in Patients With Huntington's Disease
- Estrogens Play a Hidden Role in Cancers, Inhibiting a Key Immune Cell
Thursday, September 26, 2024
- Bacteria Involved in Gum Disease Linked to Increased Risk of Head and Neck Cancer
- Metabolic Reprogramming of T Cells May Enhance Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy
- Programming Cells to Target Brain Tumors
- Unexpected Immune Response May Hold Key to Long-Term Cancer Remission
- Treatment for Age And Cancer-Related Muscle Degeneration
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- AI Could Predict Breast Cancer Risk Via 'zombie Cells'
- Study Helps Predict How Long It Will Take for Testosterone to Return to Normal After Prostate Cancer Treatment
- Combination Treatment Improves Response to Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
- New Cancer Diagnoses Did Not Rebound as Expected Following Pandemic
- New Combination Treatment Brings Hope to Patients With Advanced Bladder Cancer
Monday, September 23, 2024
- Potential Breakthrough for Hard to Treat Cancers
- Innovative Model Provides Valuable Insights Into Prostate Cancer Spread
Friday, September 20, 2024
- Fever Drives Enhanced Activity, Mitochondrial Damage in Immune Cells
- A Two-Dose Schedule Could Make HIV Vaccines More Effective
- Researchers Identify Sex-Based Differences in Immune Responses Against Tumors
- Unlocking the Potential of Patient-Derived Organoids for Personalized Sarcoma Treatment
- Inflammatory Cells in Tumor Microenvironment Promote the Transformation of Prostate Cancer Cells Into Treatment-Resistant Cells
- Antidepressant Shows Promise for Treating Brain Tumors
Thursday, September 19, 2024
- New Prostate Biopsy Technique Lowers Infection Risk
- A Common Culprit Drives Prostate Cancer Progression
- New Cancer Cachexia Treatment Boosts Weight Gain and Patient Activity
- Coronavirus Spike Proteins Can Be Selectively Detected in 5 Minutes
- Low Oxygen Levels in Tumors Could Enhance Some of the Body's Immune Responses Against Cancer
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Clinical Trial Successfully Repurposes Cancer Drug for Hereditary Bleeding Disorder
- Breast and Ovarian Cancer Newly Linked to Thousands of Gene Variants
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- Triplet Regimen Yields Promising Response in Advanced-Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
- Cancer Cells May Be Using Lipids to Hide from the Immune System
- Ten-Year Study Shows Tomosynthesis Improves Breast Cancer Detection
Monday, September 16, 2024
- Immunotherapy Shows Promise for Men With Specific Types of Prostate Cancer
- Study Links Neighborhood Environment to Prostate Cancer Risk in Men With West African Genetic Ancestry
- Long-Term Metastatic Melanoma Survival Dramatically Improves on Immunotherapy, Study Finds
Friday, September 13, 2024
- Study Finds 'supercharging' T Cells With Mitochondria Enhances Their Antitumor Activity
- Antibody-Drug Conjugate Found Effective Against Brain Metastases in Patients With HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
- Experimental mRNA Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential for Advanced Stage Cancer Patients in Phase 1 Trial
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- How the Immune System Fails as Cancer Arises
- BMI's Relation to Cancer Therapy Mortality Risks Not So Straightforward
- Tumor-Induced B Cell Changes Reveal Potential Biomarker for Treatment Response in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
- Doctors and Patients Interested in Environmental Impact of Health Care Decisions, Study Finds
- Five Key Factors Predict the Response of Cancer Patients to Immunotherapy
- Breakthrough Research Extends Hope for Gastric Cancer Patients With Peritoneal Metasis
- Sex Matters in How, When, and Where Melanomas Develop, Study Finds
- Using a Molecular Scissors to Improve CAR-T Cell Therapy
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
- New, Rare Type of Small Cell Lung Cancer Identified
- Genes With Strong Impact on Menopause Timing Also Link to Cancer Risk
- Clinical Trials Inappropriately Excluding People of African/Middle Eastern Descent, New Research Shows
- Risk of Secondary Cancers After CAR T Therapy May Be Similar to Risk After Other Cancer Treatments
- Researchers Improve Search for Cancer Drivers