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Breast cancer preventive effects of anastrozole persist long after stopping treatment
Breast cancer incidence among post menopausal women at high risk for developing the disease continued…
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Neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment with pembrolizumab improves pathologic complete response rates for patients with triple-negative breast cancer with lymph node involvement
The addition of the anti-PD-1 immunotherapeutic pembrolizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and as adjuvant therapy increased…
Research sheds important light on the metastasis of neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma can grow and spread in the body very aggressively, making it very difficult to…
Promising new approach to treating some of the worst types of leukaemia
A collaborative research effort by Australian and US scientists has led to the discovery of…
Anti-CTLA-4 antibody tremelimumab shows efficacy in patients with metastatic bladder cancer
Treatment with the investigational anti-CTLA-4 agent tremelimumab showed clinical responses in patients with pretreated metastatic…
ASH 2019: Treatment with PD-1 inhibitor prior to stem cell transplant is safe, effective for patients with classic Hodgkin lymphoma
A new analysis shows that a donor stem cell transplant following treatment with an immune…
Brachytherapy proves effective in treating skin cancer
The use of high-dose-rate brachytherapy to treat elderly patients with common skin cancers offers excellent…
New approach to treating incurable leukaemia in children discovered
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is the most common form of cancer affecting children in Switzerland and,…
Novel MRI-guided ultrasound treatment destroys prostate cancer
A novel MRI-guided procedure that uses therapeutic ultrasound effectively treats prostate cancer with minimal side…
Inadequacies in current early-stage lung cancer treatment revealed
Findings conducted by researchers from Tohoku University and Tohoku University Hospital have revealed why some existing…