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Breast cancer: strongest contender in decades
For decades, hormonal treatment of breast cancer has been going in one direction – blocking…
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Study shows clinical benefit of new way of treating advanced ER+ breast cancer
A research paper published today (8 February 2024) in The Lancet Oncology demonstrates that the drug enobosarm,…
Immunotherapy combination may benefit patients with transplanted kidneys and advanced skin cancers
People who have had a kidney transplant are at high risk for developing skin cancers.…
TB vaccine shrinks liver cancer tumours in mice
A UC Davis Health study found that a single dose of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the vaccine for tuberculosis…
Off-the-shelf vaccine offers hope for pancreatic and colorectal cancer patients with KRAS mutations
Samara Rahman, 74, considers herself lucky. She gets to take walks on the beach, go…
Elenagen delays disease progression
CureLab Oncology, a clinical-stage, pre-IPO biotech company, announced that its novel biological agent, Elenagen, has…
Outsmarting chemo-resistant ovarian cancer
Women diagnosed with ovarian cancer may initially respond well to chemotherapy, but the majority of…
Annual breast cancer screening beginning at 40 saves lives
Annual breast cancer screening beginning at age 40 and continuing to at least age 79…
Biomarker-directed combination effective in immunotherapy-resistant lung cancer
A specific combination of targeted therapy and immunotherapy may better help patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) overcome inherent immune…
Soft-tissue sarcoma: neoadjuvant immunotherapy improves long-term survival
Patients with soft-tissue sarcoma treated with neoadjuvant, or pre-surgical, immunotherapy had very little residual tumour at the time of…