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Enter the exosome: How cancer and immune cells communicate
Cells can’t text each other the way we can, but they can still communicate. One…
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Mitochondrial activity in lung tumours predicts response to drug inhibitor
Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and David Geffen School of Medicine at…
Blood test can predict prognosis in deadly brain cancer
A blood test that measures the amount of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in the bloodstream -…
Common early sign of cardiovascular disease also may indicate cancer risk
A study involving 488 cardiac patients whose cases were followed for up to 12 years…
NCRI 2019: Deaths from liver cancer have tripled in past 20 years in England
More people are being diagnosed with and dying from liver cancer in England than ever…
NCRI 2019: High levels of two hormones in the blood raise prostate cancer risk
Men with higher levels of ‘free’ testosterone and a growth hormone in their blood are…
Dynamic transition of the blood-brain barrier in the development of NSCLC brain metastases
Effective drug delivery through the blood-tumour barrier (BTB) is one of the greatest therapeutic obstacles…
Does eating dairy foods increase your risk of prostate cancer?
Research Checks interrogate newly published studies and how they’re reported in the media. The analysis is…
Tumours alone may be linked to cancer patients’ cognitive problem
New research suggests that both tumours and chemotherapy could be linked to the cognitive problems…
Gabapentinoids appear increasingly to be prescribed, off-label, for cancer pain
Between 2005 and 2015, as the opioid crisis in America came into focus, prescriptions for…