This Woman’s Velvety ‘Tripe Palms’ Ended Up Being a Symptom of Cancer
When a 73-year-old patient visited a dermatology clinic about painful lesions on her hands, it…
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How gene-edited white blood cells are helping fight cancer
Piyush K. Jain, University of Florida For the first time in the United States, a…
Long-term survival rate for subset of patients with advanced melanoma following BRAF- and MEK-targeted treatment combination higher than historical rate
According to the National Cancer Institute’s SEER data, the five-year survival rate for metastatic melanoma among…
New pulsed electric field technology could lead to less invasive tumour molecular profiling
Current cancer treatment courses often begin with tissue biopsies. Biopsies, however, which involve the physical…
Milestone reached in new leukaemia drug
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists, with chemists and cancer biologists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI),…
Tiny filters help detect cancerous blood cells
Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer in which malignant plasma cells, a type…
25 years of learning to combat cervical cancer
According to the World Health Organization, cervical cancer is the fourth most common type of…
Scientists use catalysts to destroy cancerous cells from within
Using “Trojan horses” to combat cancer from within the tumour cells themselves without damaging healthy…
Cell death or cancer growth: A question of cohesion
Activation of CD95, a receptor found on all cancer cells, triggers programmed cell death -…
Breast cancer recurrence score has different implications for men
The TAILORx study published last year offered good news for women with early-stage ER-positive breast…