In the past decade, immunotherapy has emerged as the fourth pillar of cancer treatment, joining surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It is an approved treatment for 15 cancers, including melanoma and some types of lymphomas and…
Imagine your greatest fear. Now, write it down and tell it in first-person, as if it's happening right now. Vividly describe what it looks, sounds, smells, tastes and feels like. Don't hold back.
A method has been reported by researchers from Tsinghua University in China, which enables the efficient and high-throughput production of lung cancer assembloids. This lung cancer assembloid model can predict personalized treatments and…
Patients should receive cancer treatment within two months of an urgent referral but research by the Liberal Democrats reveals waits have skyrocketed to double the target
Joe Murphy, from Hulme, Greater Manchester, is only the second patient in the world to be offered the treatment at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, and he says it brought him 'back from the brink'.
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)-- The Cancer Center Patient Fund at the Steve and Nancy Fox Cancer Center is growing thanks to help from a local family and the community. According to Texas Tech Health El Paso, the family, which is remaining…
The event will focus on the company's ELAINE (Evaluating Lasofoxifene in ESR1 Mutations) studies investigating lasofoxifene in patients with locally advanced or metastatic estrogen receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor 2-negative…
(MedPage Today) -- Amid controversy and discussions about the high cost of cancer drugs, some academic medical centers profit handsomely from pharma-paid royalties on drugs developed with public funding. (Los Angeles Magazine)
Less than 2% of cancers are brain tumors, but this disease affects many families, and the odds of getting brain cancer increases with age. Now, new technology is available to connect patients to the proper treatment.
Colon cancer is characterized by cell proliferation that originates in the colon, a section of the large intestine. This kind of cancer has a 50% cure rate, with over 200,000 patients each year in the United States. Because prevention is…
Despite progress in defining functional elements of noncoding DNA, it is still not fully understood. Researchers, using an experiment that elucidated the function of tens of thousands of noncoding variants, discovered a link between…