Tag: Tumour

New Tumour Cell Tracking System Aims to Understand Cancer Treatment Resistance

August 19, 2021
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Austin, TX — Despite tremendous advances in medicine, tumours are challenging to cure because they are made up of heterogeneous cells. Like human families, the individual cells of a tumour share some...

Noninvasive Test to Detect Cancer Cells and Pinpoint Their Location

July 19, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Most of the tests that doctors use to diagnose cancer — such as mammography, colonoscopy, and CT scans — are based on imaging. More recently, researchers have also developed...

New Research Optimizes Body’s Own Immune System to Fight Cancer

May 17, 2021
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Minneapolis, MN — A groundbreaking study led by engineering and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities shows how engineered immune cells used in new cancer therapies can overcome...

Cancer DNA Blood Tests Validated by International Research Team

April 14, 2021
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Darlinghurst, Australia — An international team today reports the findings of an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumour DNA sequencing – a fast, cheap and less...

STINGing Tumours with Nanoparticles

February 9, 2021
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Dallas, TX — A new nanoparticle-based drug can boost the body’s innate immune system and make it more effective at fighting off tumours, researchers at UT Southwestern have shown. Their study,...

New Computational Tool Reliably Differentiates between Cancer and Normal Cells from Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data

January 19, 2021
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Houston, TX — In an effort to address a major challenge when analyzing large single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a...

New Clues to Prostate Cancer

January 11, 2021
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Bedford Park, South Australia — Australian research has identified a new mechanism in which prostate cancer cells can ‘switch’ character and become resistant to therapy. These findings,...

Tiny Nanospindles Enhance Use of Ultrasound to Fight Cancer

December 10, 2020
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Washington, DC — Ultrasound can be used to treat cancer when used in combination with molecules that sensitize the system to sound waves. These sonosensitizers generate toxic reactive oxygen species...

Novel Adoptive Cell Transfer Method Shortens Timeline for T-cell Manufacture

November 2, 2020
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Charleston, SC — Adoptively transferred T-cells can prolong survival and sometimes cure patients with advanced solid tumours. While promising, it can take months to generate the necessary T-cells to...

New Cancer Diagnostics: A Glimpse into Tumour in 3D

October 29, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — After cancer surgery, the crucial question is: Are there possibly cancer cells left behind that can continue to grow, or has the entire tumour actually been removed? To find out,...

Colorectal Cancer Treatment: The Winning Combinations

October 8, 2020
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Geneva, Switzerland — Chemotherapy-based cancer treatment has distressing side effects for patients and increases the risk of developing resistance to the treatment. In an attempt to solve these problems,...

Tumour Progression Depends on Tumour Microenvironment

October 5, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Niigata University identify a novel mechanism by which tumours progress Tumour cells constantly interact with the cellular...

Co-Occurrence of Cancer Driver Genes, Key to Precision Medicine

September 24, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Cancer driver genes are those with mutations that are essential for tumour development and spread. Led by ICREA researcher Patrick Aloy, scientists from the Structural Bioinformatics...

How do Tumour Cells Divide in the Crowd?

September 3, 2020
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Dresden, Germany — Most animal cells need to become spherical in order to divide. To achieve this round shape, the cells must round up and deform their neighbouring cells. In a growing tumour tissue,...

A Blood Test could Predict Who Benefits from Immunotherapy

August 4, 2020
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Toronto, ON — A test which detects changing levels of tumour fragments in the blood may be an easy, non-invasive and quick way to predict who will benefit from immunotherapy, a treatment option for...

Leukemia Drug Shows the Potential to Treat Aggressive Paediatric Brain Cancer

July 23, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers affiliated with the University of São Paulo’s Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP-USP) in Brazil have demonstrated the potential of a leukaemia drug, arsenic trioxide,...

Immune Cells Infiltrating Tumours may Play Bigger Cancer Role Than Previously Thought

June 23, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Most traditional cancer therapies target either the tumour cells themselves or indiscriminately kill any rapidly dividing cell. New findings by researchers at University of California...

New Understanding of RNA Movements can be Used to Treat Cancer

May 28, 2020
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Solna, Sweden — Research from Karolinska Institutet published today in Nature shows that an RNA molecule involved in preventing tumour formation can change its structure and thereby control protein...

Cancer Researchers Locate Drivers of Tumour Resistance

May 21, 2020
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San Antonio, TX — Cancer biologists at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, have identified important drivers that enable tumours to change their behavior and evade anticancer...

Combo of Fasting Plus Vitamin C is Effective for Hard-to-Treat Cancers, Study Shows

May 14, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Scientists from USC and the IFOM Cancer Institute in Milan have found that a fasting-mimicking diet could be more effective at treating some types of cancer when combined with vitamin...

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