Groundbreaking Study Optimizes Patient’s Own Immune System to Fight Tumors
University of Minnesota via News-Medical – 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…
Cure for Deadly Brain Cancer May Be on Its Way
Brian Blum via Israel21c – Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer, accounting for half of all primary brain cancers. It has a 40 percent survival rate after a…
Targeted Delivery of Highly Toxic Anti-Cancer Drug to Brain Tumors
University of Houston via EurekAlert – With a survival rate of only five years, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, is notoriously hard to treat…
Researchers Explore How to Protect Gut Integrity to Improve Outcomes in Blood Cancers
Medical University of South Carolina via EurekAlert – MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers found that a single strain of bacteria may be able to reduce the severity of graft-versus-host disease…
Researchers Discover Protein Function That Could Improve Chemotherapy in the Future
University of Copenhagen the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences via EurekAlert – Chemotherapy attacks all cells in our body and not just cancer cells, which is why patients undergoing the…
Breakthrough Discovery Could Turn Cancer into a Treatable Disease
University of Salford via News-Medical Net – Professor Michael Lisanti and Professor Federica Sotgia have made a discovery that could turn cancer into a treatable disease and remove the fear from a…
Scientists Discover a Way to Stop the Spread of Devastating Childhood Cancer
University of East Anglia via EurekAlert – Researchers at the University of East Anglia and University of Manchester have made an important breakthrough that could lead to ‘kinder’ treatments for children…
Vitamin D Could Help Mitigate Chemotherapy Side Effects
University of South Australia via Newswise – As many cancer patients will confirm, the chemotherapy prescribed to kill the disease is often more debilitating than the cancer itself, with a range…
Diet, Gut Microbes Affect Cancer Treatment Outcomes, Research Suggests
University of Virginia Health System via EurekAlert – What we eat can affect the outcome of chemotherapy – and likely many other medical treatments – because of ripple effects that begin in…
The Fight Goes On: Clinical Trial Shows Promising New Treatment for Rare Blood Cancer
Nagoya University via EurekAlert – Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that develops from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). It has many subtypes. A rare subtype, called intravascular large…
Breakthroughs in Prostate Cancer Treatments
Dr. Liji Thomas, MD viaNews-Medical Net– Prostate cancer is being diagnosed in an increasing number of men, but many of them will be non-aggressive forms that run an indolent course…
CBD Could Help Doctors Use Lower Doses of Chemotherapy
Israel21c Staff – New technique from Israel uses cannabidiol to open a channel for drugs to target cancer cells only, potentially enabling a gentler course of chemo. Researchers led by…
Neurons Promote Growth of Brain Tumor Cells
German Cancer Research Center via EurekAlert – Glioblastomas invade the healthy brain in a diffuse pattern like a fungal network. As a result, they cannot be completely removed by surgery,…
