Tag: Tumours

Researchers Design a Drug Screening Platform Compatible With Patient Biopsies to Fight Metastasis

February 17, 2022
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Madrid, Spain — It is estimated that about a quarter of cancer patients are at risk of brain metastases, a rate that is increasing especially among those who suffer relapses after having undergone...

Good Cop, Bad Cop

February 19, 2021
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Lisboa, Portugal — Cancer researcher Rita Fior uses zebrafish to study human cancer. Though this may seem like an unlikely match, her work shows great promise with forthcoming applications in personalised...

Physics of Tumours: Cancer Cells Become Fluidised and Squeeze Through Tissue

February 18, 2021
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Leipzig, Germany — Working with colleagues from Germany and the US, researchers at Leipzig University have achieved a breakthrough in research into how cancer cells spread. In experiments, the team...

Deep Vision: Near-Infrared Imaging and Machine Learning can Identify Hidden Tumours

February 3, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — Tumours can be damaging to surrounding blood vessels and tissues even if they’re benign. If they’re malignant, they’re aggressive and sneaky, and often irrevocably...

Cancer Researchers Train White Blood Cells to Attacks Tumour Cells

November 6, 2020
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Dresden, Germany — Scientists at the National Center for Tumour Diseases Dresden (NCT/UCC) and Dresden University Medicine, together with an international team of researchers, were able to demonstrate...

Giving Immune System a Double Boost Against Cancer

November 2, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbour, NY — Cancer immunotherapies, which empower patients’ immune systems to eliminate tumours, are revolutionizing cancer treatment. Many patients respond well to these treatments,...

Discoveries Suggest New Breast Cancer Treatment

October 19, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — Findings by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) researchers have pointed to a new combination of treatments that may help breast cancer patients with certain gene mutations. The...

Algorithms Uncover Cancers’ Hidden Genetic Losses and Gains

September 21, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — Understanding the specific mutations that contribute to different forms of cancer is critical to improving diagnosis and treatment. But limitations in DNA sequencing technology make...

Artificial Intelligence Finds Patterns of Mutations and Survival in Tumour Images

July 28, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK, and collaborators have developed...

Researchers Uncover Cancer Cell Vulnerabilities; may Lead to Better Cancer Therapies

June 15, 2020
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Irvine, CA — A new University of California, Irvine-led study reveals a protein responsible for genetic changes resulting in a variety of cancers, may also be the key to more effective, targeted cancer...

Researchers Identify a Moving Target in Small Cell Lung Tumours

June 2, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — Lung cancers account for approximately 25 percent of all cancer deaths. Even among those who do not smoke, 1 in 15 men and 1 in 17 women are expected to develop lung cancer in...

New Double-Contrast Technique Picks Up Small Tumours on MRI

May 26, 2020
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Davis, CA — Researchers at the University of California, Davis offers a significant advance in using magnetic resonance imaging to pick out even very small tumours from normal tissue. The work is published...

T-cells could be Made into Better Cancer Killers by Increasing Their Protein Production

May 25, 2020
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Charleston, SC — A team of scientists from Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has developed a novel flow cytometry technique that can, for the first-time, quantify...

Genome-Wide Pattern Found in Tumours from Brain Cancer Patients Predicts Life Expectancy

May 19, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — For the past 70 years, the best indicator of life expectancy for a patient with glioblastoma (GBM) — the most common and the most aggressive brain cancer — has simply...

Lymphoma’s Different Route Revealed

April 9, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Creating new blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis, for tumors in lymph nodes is different than for tumours in other parts of the body, such as the colon or lung, a team from...

Starve a Tumour, Feed a Cell: How Cancers can Resist Drugs

March 5, 2020
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Irvine, CA — With drug resistance a major challenge in the fight against cancer, a discovery by University of California, Irvine biologists could offer new approaches to overcoming the obstacle. Their...

Designer Probiotic Treatment for Cancer Immunotherapy

February 13, 2020
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New York, NY — Columbia biomedical engineers have designed a novel probiotic strain that after a single dose can seek out solid tumours and safely deliver immune checkpoint inhibitors, resulting in...

Can Flu Shot Help Fight Cancer?

January 7, 2020
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Chicago, IL — Changing the microenvironment of tumours to increase the immune system’s response to them has been the goal of countless research and clinical studies including the most recent...

Study Reveals New Approach to Enhancing Response to Immunotherapy in Melanoma

January 7, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have identified a new way to boost the immune system’s ability to fight cancer. The study, which was performed...

Scientists Discover Metabolic Feature that Allows Melanoma Cells to Spread

December 19, 2019
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Dallas, TX — Researchers at Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have uncovered why certain melanoma cells are more likely to spread through the body. The discovery...

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