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Case study reveals important new details about rare second cancers related to CAR-T therapy

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A new detailed analysis of a patient's second cancer after receiving CAR-T therapy for the initial cancer provides rare but important insights intended to offer helpful guidance for oncologists and pathologists about the clinical…

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27-year-old battling rare cancer uses social media to help break stigmas

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"I think the image of a cancer patient is an old, an older person who's frail," Natasha Allen said. "People don't think like 'oh, cancer,' then think of someone that looks like me. But right now that image is changing."

27-year-old battling rare cancer uses social media to help break stigmas

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"I think the image of a cancer patient is an old, an older person who's frail," Natasha Allen said. "People don't think like 'oh, cancer,' then think of someone that looks like me. But right now that image is changing."

27-year-old battling rare cancer uses social media to help break stigmas

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"I think the image of a cancer patient is an old, an older person who's frail," Natasha Allen said. "People don't think like 'oh, cancer,' then think of someone that looks like me. But right now that image is changing."

27-year-old battling rare cancer uses social media to help break stigmas

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"I think the image of a cancer patient is an old, an older person who's frail," Natasha Allen said. "People don't think like 'oh, cancer,' then think of someone that looks like me. But right now that image is changing."

27-year-old battling rare cancer uses social media to help break stigmas

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"I think the image of a cancer patient is an old, an older person who's frail," Natasha Allen said. "People don't think like 'oh, cancer,' then think of someone that looks like me. But right now that image is changing."

27-year-old battling rare cancer uses social media to help break stigmas

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"I think the image of a cancer patient is an old, an older person who's frail," Natasha Allen said. "People don't think like 'oh, cancer,' then think of someone that looks like me. But right now that image is changing."

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Cancer Patients Denied Care; DIY Medical Test Boom; Opioid Maker's Influence on Docs

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(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.

CAR T cell therapy for advanced prostate cancer demonstrates positive results in Phase I clinical trial

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Treating prostate cancer with immunotherapy is currently difficult to do. But results from a first in-human Phase I trial using a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy developed by researchers from City of Hope, showed that…

Researchers find survival improves with open radical hysterectomy in early-stage cancer

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Early-stage cervical cancer patients see better survival and decreased recurrence rates after open radical hysterectomy than minimally invasive laparoscopic approaches, according to a five-year study led by Houston Methodist researchers…

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Cancer treatment delays now 'routine' in NHS, figures show

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More than 380,000 cancer patients have not been treated on time since 2015, according to data analysed by charity Cancer Research UK.

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Gene that helps cancer cells spread throughout the body

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Expression of Gstt1 enables the cells to change the surrounding environment to support their growth. The findings could lead to new strategies to treat metastatic cancer and would be particularly impactful for patients with pancreatic…

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Another KRAS Inhibitor Scores an Early Win in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

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(MedPage Today) -- A China-developed KRAS inhibitor led to objective responses in half of patients with previously treated KRAS-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a prospective non-randomized trial showed.

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3D cell cultures reveal how cancer cells navigate tissue

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Developing chemotherapy drugs against breast cancer is costly, slow, and often inefficient, with more than 95% of screened drug candidates failing in patient trials. A new technique for 3D cell culturing, developed by researchers at…

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Study finds no link between exposure to immunosuppressive therapy, cancer in IBD patients

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There is no significant association between exposure to immunosuppressive therapies and development of incident cancers among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and a history of cancer, according to a study published online May…

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Breast cancer patient, 68, told family 'nothing is going to stop me from going on holiday' before she contracted sepsis and died in luxury cruise cabin, inquest hears

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Lucille Thorne, 68, injured her knee after she slipped on the marble floor at a resort in the Maldives - where she had started her dream holiday - before going on a cruise.

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How His Personal Battle With Cancer Inspired This Founder's Solution for Patient Care

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On this episode of "The Founder CEO," Michael O'Neil, founder and CEO of GetWellNetwork, discusses his inspiring journey as a leader and the transformative role of AI in healthcare.

Comparative analysis shows FAPI PET/CT improves staging of newly diagnosed breast cancer

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A comparative analysis between FAPI and 18F-FDG PET/CT for the systemic staging of newly diagnosed breast cancer shows that FAPI PET/CT is more accurate in staging patients. Nearly 20 percent of patients were restaged by FAPI PET/CT,…

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Cancer patients often do better with less intensive treatment, new research finds

Studies on ovarian, esophageal and Hodgkin lymphoma cancers suggest better quality of life, little change on outcome

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Ovarian cancer patient hails treatment as a 'lifeline'

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Christine Campbell has lived longer than doctors predicted - and she's determined to keep going.