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Immune-based therapy in mice shows promise against pancreatic cancer
While immune therapy has proven effective in treating certain types of cancer, especially lung cancer…
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Stanford scientists create ‘guided chemotherapy missiles’ that target cancer cells and spare healthy ones
By Amy Adams. Latching chemotherapy drugs onto proteins that seek out tumours could provide a…
Radiation and vaccination can magnify effects of immunotherapy
By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University…
ASCO 2016: Chemotherapy combination with capecitabine extends survival after pancreatic cancer surgery
A European phase III trial, one of the largest ever conducted in pancreatic cancer, showed…
Vitamin A may help improve pancreatic cancer chemotherapy
The addition of high doses of a form of vitamin A could help make chemotherapy…
Immunotherapy shows great promise
Stanley Riddell, M.D., oncologist and researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses the…
Cell death mechanism may – paradoxically – enable aggressive pancreatic cells to live on
The most aggressive form of pancreatic cancer – often described as one of the hardest…
Modified flu virus can ‘resensitize’ resistant pancreatic cancer cells to chemotherapy
A common flu virus could be used to overcome patients’ resistance to certain cancer drugs…
Type 1 diabetes associated with increased risk of some cancer types
New research reveals that type 1 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of various…
Pancreatic cancer is really four separate cancers: study
By Ivy Shih, The Conversation. A landmark seven year study has identified that pancreatic cancer is…