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Genetic discovery to improve lung cancer treatment
Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer, accounting for an estimated 1.8 million deaths…
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Study identifies kids with cancer at risk of lethal infections
New research has identified the child cancer patients at greatest risk of developing life-threatening infections,…
Three-step treatment strategy for pancreatic cancer
Research led by investigators at Cedars-Sinai Cancer and Johns Hopkins University, USA, have discovered a…
New biomarkers unlock potential for more effective treatment of deadly cancers
Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute have developed a…
Immunity boosting treatment enhances CAR-T cell therapy for blood cancers
Advances in cellular immunotherapy that spur genetically modified T cells to attack cancer cells have…
ASCO 2022: “New hope” for patients with blood cancers not responding to treatment
Peter Mac’s Associate Professor Michael Dickinson has presented new data from a trial of the…
Patient voices a good predictor of cancer treatment outcomes
A breast cancer patient’s perspective on their physical well-being can provide a better indication of…
Genetic mutations can be benign or cancerous – a new method to differentiate between them could lead to better treatments
Ryan Layer, University of Colorado Boulder Most of the roughly 40 trillion cells of your…
Drugs used to treat blood cancer could activate “sleeping” cancer-causing gene
Hypomethylating agents (HMA) are currently used as a first-line treatment for patients with myelodysplastic syndrome…
ASCO 2022: Open-label placebo treatment reduces cancer-related fatigue in patients with advanced cancers
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is the most common symptom in patients with cancer, and there are limited…