Collaborate Disseminate
Researchers in Japan have demonstrated a new antibody treatment for prostate cancer. The drug helps reverse a nasty trick that cancer cells play on the immune system, with promising results shown in experiments in dogs with the cancer.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Prostate cancer antibody treatment shows promise in dogs
Surgical removal or chemotherapy might prove effective at eliminating an initial tumor, but often cancer cells can break away and give rise to secondary growths around the body. Known as metastatic cancer, this is actually the primary cause of death fr… Continue reading Protein sticks cancer cells to surrounding tissue to slow their spread
One promising possibility for next-gen cancer treatments involves infiltrating tumors with specially-designed particles and heating them up to destroy the cancerous tissue, and new research from the University of College London (UCL) takes this technol… Continue reading Magnetic seeds can be steered into cancer tissue to kill it with heat
Immunotherapy is a promising new form of cancer treatment, but the supercharged immune cells it employs can become exhausted in the fight. Researchers in Japan have found a way to keep them going for longer, by rejuvenating them with stem cells.Continu… Continue reading Stem cell rejuvenation helps immunotherapy fight cancer tirelessly
A new understanding of the way the body teaches immune cells to fight off threats has raised hopes of advanced treatments for autoimmune conditions, and possibly other diseases such as cancer. The discovery centers on an enzyme that plays a key role in… Continue reading Targeting “boot camp” enzyme could fight autoimmune diseases and cancer
Scientists have known for some time that lactic acid can fuel the growth of tumors, but the biological mechanisms behind this relationship have remained unclear. A new study has drilled into the matter and turned up some useful answers around how lacti… Continue reading Targeting lactic acid in tumors may be key to stunting their growth
Cancer therapies that harness and enhance a patient’s unique immune response hold great potential as personalized forms of treatment, and a new tool developed at Northwestern University could expand the availability and effectiveness of this technology… Continue reading “Goldilocks” sets of immune cells cause dramatic shrinkage of tumors
New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge has provided strong evidence that mutations in two key genes known to heighten breast cancer risk can also be linked with increased risk of developing prostate, pancreatic and stomach canc… Continue reading Breast cancer risk genes linked to prostate, pancreatic and stomach cancer
An experimental drug under investigation as a potential cancer treatment has shown exciting potential in an entirely unrelated field of medicine, with scientists finding it confers benefits for weight loss and metabolic health in mice. These benefits w… Continue reading Experimental cancer drug mimics benefits of fasting to fight obesity
A large genetic study tracking 150,000 subjects for over a decade has affirmed the direct causal link between drinking alcohol and developing cancer. The findings particularly link oesophageal cancers and head and neck cancers with alcohol consumption…. Continue reading Alcohol consumption can directly cause cancer, new genetic study finds