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Cancer comorbidities reduce clinical trial participation, new SWOG study shows
Cancer patients with other illnesses or conditions, such as hypertension, asthma, or a prior cancer,…
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Suicide risk more than quadruples for people with cancer
People with cancer are more than four times more likely to commit suicide than people…
CT vs PET/CT chest scans for initial metastatic assessment of head and neck cancers
By analysing nearly 152,000 cases of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, researchers at Fox…
AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer
A research team led by investigators from the National Institutes of Health and Global Good…
VISTA checkpoint implicated in pancreatic cancer immunotherapy resistance
Researchers have identified a new potential immunotherapy target in pancreatic cancer, which so far has…
When it comes to brain tumors, a patient’s sex matters
Joshua Rubin, Washington University in St Louis Have you ever wondered why, in most species,…
Engineers unlock avenue for early cancer diagnosis
Monash University engineers have unlocked the door to earlier detection of cancer with a world-first…
Stopping cancer from recruiting immune system double agents
Cancerous tumours trick myeloid cells, an important part of the immune system, into perceiving them…
Scientists report CRISPR gene editing system restores effectiveness of lung cancer treatment
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system may be able to restore the effectiveness of first-line chemotherapies…
Anticancer vaccines gain new lease of life with personalisation techniques
Anticancer vaccines have gained a new lease of life with techniques to personalise them to…