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Changes in cellular degradation hubs can lead to cancer
Cancer cells grow and divide in an uncontrolled manner. A study from Uppsala University, Sweden,…
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Learning how cancer cells coordinate and collaborate to multiply and metastasise
Cancer cells are known to migrate and collaborate to form networks that function as conduits…
Researchers successfully stop blood vessel, tumour growth in mice
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health, USA, and other institutions have devised a new…
Tracking down false parkers in cancer cells
Squamous cell carcinoma is a very unusual type of cancer. They occur in many tissues…
Intralipid improves efficacy of chemotherapy treatment
Pairing chemotherapy nanodrugs with a nutritional supplement can lessen devastating side-effects while reducing the amount…
Cancer cells spread using a copper-binding protein
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that the Atox1 protein, found in…
Adding smoking cessation to lung cancer screening can reduce mortality by 14%
Including smoking cessation with existing lung cancer screening efforts would reduce lung cancer mortality by…
Neurofibromatosis gene provides new insight into breast cancer resistance to hormone therapy
An international team of researchers led by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine, USA, has…
A new strategy to prevent the most aggressive tumours from generating resistance to chemotherapy
One of the most frequent problems when treating cancer is that the tumours develop resistance…
Immunotherapy combo effective for patients with high-grade neuroendocrine cancer
Many patients with rare, fast-growing neuroendocrine tumours respond well to a common immunotherapy drug combination,…