Collaborate Disseminate
Can you imagine a near future where your family doctor can effectively prick your finger and test you for a dozen or so types of cancer? Currently, cancer detection is a time-consuming and expensive process. Existing methods of screening for cancer usually involve taking a whole lot of blood and …read more
Continue reading This Machine Is Poised to Join the Fight Against Cancer
Cancer is a crafty foe, not least because traces often remain after surgery and can trigger a relapse later on. Now a new technology to fight those dangerous leftovers – a cold atmospheric plasma system – has been approved for human clinical … Continue reading FDA approves clinical trial of cold plasma "scalpel" for cancer treatment
Cancer drugs are getting more effective at killing tumors, but there’s one big problem that may be holding them back from wide use: many work like a shotgun blast and harm healthy cells as well. Researchers from Georgia Tech have now develope… Continue reading Tiny "glass bottles" deliver drugs on demand when heated
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of the disease, thanks largely to the fact that the tumors tend to be much more solid. This means that cancer drugs aren’t able to get inside to work their magic. But now researchers have iden… Continue reading Slow-and-steady drug combo wins race against pancreatic cancer
An extraordinarily sensitive new blood test has been developed that promises to be able to effectively track the progression of breast cancer at its earliest stages. It is suggested the blood test could track the efficacy of drug therapies be… Continue reading New breast cancer blood test 100 times more sensitive than similar tests
Feverfew is a common flower easily recognizable either from a home garden or the shelf of the local health store. For hundreds of years it’s been used as a traditional medicine for migraines and other pains, though its actual usefulness in th… Continue reading Scientists pluck an anti-cancer compound from a common flower
Cancer cells often deploy specific “don’t eat me” signals to hide from immune cells. A breakthrough new study from Stanford University has homed in on a previously undiscovered signaling protein that, if effectively inhibited, may lead to new treatments for breast, ovarian, and other difficult-to-treat cancers.
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Continue Reading Breakthrough discovery of signal cancers use to hide from immune system
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Continue reading Breakthrough discovery of signal cancers use to hide from immune system
One of the main reasons cancer can be so difficult to beat is because of its ability to spread through the body, even after the primary tumor has been surgically removed. But now researchers from Vanderbilt University have developed a new tec… Continue reading Coating immune cells in nanoparticles helps seek and destroy rogue cancer cells
A team of scientists from Israel report compelling new insights into how the metastatic spread of melanoma is assisted by nearby fat cells. The research does not suggest obesity enhances the metastatic potential of skin cancers but it does po… Continue reading Melanoma spread found to be triggered by fat cells
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to a new cancer drug called selinexor. This pill, which also goes by the market name Xpovio, has been found to be successful in treating multiple myeloma in patients t… Continue reading FDA approves risky new type of cancer drug – with caveats