Patients with a common form of lung cancer — lung squamous cell carcinoma — have very few treatment options. That situation may soon change. A team of cancer biologists at Mayo Clinic in Florida is reporting in the Feb. 10 ...
Tags: Oncogene, lung cancer, PKCiota, SOX2
Inspired by tiny particles that carry cholesterol through the body, MIT chemical engineers have designed nanoparticles that can deliver snippets of genetic material that turn off disease-causing genes. This approach, known as RNA ...
Tags: RNA, MIT, Gene Silencing, Nanoparticle
The Whipple procedure, used to remove tumors from pancreatic cancer patients, is one of surgery's most extensive and challenging operations. Now, surgeons are using a minimally invasive robotic surgical system to perform the surgery. ...
Tags: Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgical System, Whipple Procedure
New surgical guidelines announced today by the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) and the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) have the potential to significantly reduce unnecessary breast surgeries, improve patient outcomes and ...
Tags: SSO, ASTRO, AIS, Peggy Johnson
Age is a key risk factor for breast cancer. A recent study by researchers from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), "Age-related DNA methylation in normal breast tissue and its relationship with invasive breast tumor ...
Tags: breast cancer, Epigenetics, connection between cancer and the aging
Clinical trials investigating new uses for the anti-cancer drug Avastin have produced mixed results. When combined with standard chemotherapy, Avastin extended the survival of patients with advanced cervical cancer by nearly four months, ...
Incyte Corporation (Nasdaq: INCY) announced today that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with Merck, through a Merck subsidiary, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Incyte's oral indoleamine dioxygenase-1 ...
Tags: collaboration agreement, Incyte's oral indoleamine dioxygenase-1, IDO1
The first comprehensive, large-scale cohort study of the long-term survival of children treated for low-grade gliomas, the most common pediatric brain tumor, finds that almost 90 percent are alive 20 years later and that few die from the ...
Tags: Health&Medicine
Refinements made to near-infrared spectroscopy during clinical MRI Dartmouth engineers and radiologists are developing new approaches for an emerging technique in diagnostic imaging for breast cancer-MRI with near-infrared ...
Tags: MRI, Diagnostic Imaging, tumor
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers in Canada has found a way around the problem of large nanostructures that are used to combat tumors,remaining in the body after they are no longer needed.In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
Tags: Decomposable Nanostructures, cancer, tumor
Nuvilex has announced that its subsidiary, Medical Marijuana Sciences, plans to use the proprietary cellulose-based live-cell encapsulation technology known as Cell-in-a-Box to develop treatments for serious and deadly forms of cancer. ...
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear,Harvard Medical School,Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital have demonstrated,for the first time,that aspirin intake correlates with halted growth of vestibular ...
Tags: Aspirin Intake, Aspirin, Intracranial Tumor
Adamis Pharmaceuticals has announced an important addition to its intellectual property with receipt of a notice of allowance of patent claims supporting its cancer immunotherapy portfolio in the US. Notice of allowance is the final step ...
Tags: Cancer Immunology, Cancer, Cancer cure
Smokers and other people at high risk for lung cancer could make matters worse if they take antioxidant supplements, a new study of rodents suggests. Antioxidants appear to accelerate cancer progression by short-circuiting one of the ...
Tags: antioxidants, health, Cancer
A common surgery for non-melanoma skin cancer, known as Mohs surgery typically achieves excellent results but can be a long process, as the surgeon successively removes the area of concern until the surrounding tissue is free of cancer. To ...
Tags: Optical imaging, skin cancer