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Fat intake shows link to metastasis
The discovery of metastasis-promoting protein receptors (CD36) in mouse cells has led to the launch…
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SABCS 2016 : Adding everolimus to fulvestrant improved outcomes for postmenopausal patients with HR-positive breast cancer
Progression-free survival was more than doubled for patients with metastatic hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast…
Double whammy for triple negative breast cancer
A promising new combination therapy for a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer has been…
Immunotherapy before surgery could dramatically improve cancer survival rates
QIMR Berghofer scientists have found that reversing the order of treatment for patients with certain…
Map of drugs reveals uncharted waters in search for new treatments
Scientists have created a map of all 1,578 licensed drugs and their mechanisms of action…
Next-generation HPV vaccine will further reduce cervical cancer risk
New vaccine to protect against 90 per cent of all cervical cancers, instead of the…
#MicroRNA: Enhancing cancer response to radiation
Researcher Sudarshan Anand has a contemporary analogy to describe microRNA: “I sometimes compare MicroRNA to…
New Zealanders need high quality cancer information
There is considerable demand for cancer information resources in New Zealand, with a third of…
Young cancer survivors have twice the risk of suicide
Survivors of cancer diagnosed before the age of 25 had a more than two-fold increased…
Psilocybin eases existential anxiety in people with life-threatening cancer
In a small double-blind study, Johns Hopkins researchers report that a substantial majority of people…