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NBC4i.com
April 28, 2018
TOLEDO, OH (WCMH) -- A Toledo boy battling cancer got a special visit Thursday from some of his favorite superheroes, all members of the Toledo Police SWAT team. According to the Toledo PD, third-grader Brady Chapa was diagnosed in 2017 with a rare form of cancer. The community put together aÃâà...
New York Times
April 28, 2018
But its pinpoint precision has not been shown to be more effective against breast, prostate and other common cancers. One recent study of lung-cancer patients found no significant difference in outcomes between people receiving proton therapy and those getting a focused kind of traditional radiation,Ãâà...
WebMD
April 28, 2018
Besides ataxia telangiectasia, the company is looking at other diseases, including cancer, their system could treat. Rubius Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA, is also studying superblood treatment for rare diseases, cancers, and immune system disorders. It has raised more than $220 million in financing forÃâà...
Nature.com
April 27, 2018
Researchers have found a way to fine-tune the activity level and targets of cancer-seeking immune cells. Modified immune cells called CAR-T cells, which target cancer cells, have shown promise against some tumours. But cancers sometimes become resistant to the therapy, and CAR-T treatment itself canÃâà...
STAT
April 27, 2018
These include a spectrum of rare inherited disorders, pediatric cancers, adult cancers in highly refractory populations, and infectious diseases. Every day counts for patients with these conditions who are waiting for the chance to try a new treatment — the median three months saved 3 during FDA reviewÃâà...
PharmaTimes
April 27, 2018
Research led by University College London (UCL) and the University of Leeds, with support from a Cancer Research UK/Bupa Foundation Innovation Award, has revealed widespread public belief in “mythical causes” of cancer. According to a survey of 1,330 people in England, more than 40 percentÃâà...
Medical News Today
April 27, 2018
The technique was developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta and uses engineered genes, laser technology, and gold nanoparticles to get T cells inserted into tumors to vastly increase production of specific proteins. T cells are a type of white blood cell that have an inbuiltÃâà...
Quartz
April 27, 2018
... World Trade Center terrorist attack are twice as likely than the average person to suffer from a condition that can lead to multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. The team had already been the first to show, in a 2011 study, that 9/11 responders were more likely to get many different types of cancers thanÃâà...
The Conversation UK
April 27, 2018
Cancer has always been thought of as something that grows rapidly and uncontrollably, but this view may be wrong. New evidence suggests that cancer alternatively uses the “accelerator” and the “brake” in order to survive. If you plot the growth of prostate cancer tumour progression over years, you get aÃâà...
The Guardian
April 27, 2018
CAR-T therapies work by taking blood from the patient and extracting the T-cells, which ought to kill off cancer cells but in these advanced cancers fail to recognise them. The cells must be shipped to a lab where they are genetically engineered to produce receptors on their surface that will recognise cancerÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 27, 2018
“These trials, because of the size of cohort, cannot identify a small increase in cancer risk due to World Trade Center exposure, and correlation does not mean causation,” Brawley wrote in a commentary. “Perhaps this issue is beyond the limits of science.” The same team found in 2011 that firefighters had aÃâà...
New York Times
April 26, 2018
Then a clinical trial found that this treatment was much worse than the conventional one — the cancers remained just as deadly when treated with high doses, and the regimen itself killed or maimed women. But immunotherapy is like no cancer treatment ever seen. It can work no matter what kind of tumor aÃâà...
STAT
April 25, 2018
n a promotional video, the MD Anderson Cancer Center advertises clinical trials 1 alongside immunotherapy and proton-beam therapy as one of its many ways of “fighting cancer.” Cancer Treatment Centers of America promotes clinical trials 2 as part of its “commitment to bringing our patients new andÃâà...
The Independent
April 25, 2018
Albert Thompson, the man who was denied NHS treatment for his cancer due to his immigration status, has finally been given a date to receive radiotherapy. The 63-year-old, whose case sparked the debate about the plight of the Windrush generation, had his treatment delayed by six months.
TIME
April 25, 2018
Rapid autopsy also allows scientists to get larger tumor samples than they could from a traditional biopsy taken while a person is alive — and to keep tissue alive for further testing. Scientists say such samples are the key to understanding the genetics of cancers that spread through the body, thwartingÃâà...
Business Insider South Africa
April 25, 2018
There has been a large increase in the rate of cancer claims from Sanlam. In 2010, cancer represented only 36% of severe illness claims - by 2017, this has increased to almost 60%. Poisoning, violence and accidents make up most of the sickness claims among menÃâà...
Reno Public Radio
April 25, 2018
Every year a group of women gets together to begin the journey of taking back their physical and mental health, after battling breast cancer. They work out nearly every day for six months to prepare for a bodybuilding competition called Breast Cancer to Bikini. KUNR's Joey Lovato has more.
Express.co.uk
April 25, 2018
But, if the prostate becomes large enough, prostate cancer symptoms can include a weak flow of urine and feeling that your bladder isn't fully empty after using the toilet. You should never ignore getting up in the night to pass urine, as it could be a sign of prostate cancer, warned charity Prostate Cancer UK.
Labiotech.eu (blog)
April 25, 2018
Onxeo has initiated a Phase I trial testing its first-in-class cancer treatment that works by inhibiting the repair of tumor DNA. Onxeo ... British biotech Artios Pharma, for example, is developing therapies that target the DNA repair enzyme DNA polymerase theta, which is upregulated in certain cancers.
CBS 8 San Diego
April 14, 2018
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – An unforgettable night for San Diego teenagers with cancer as the non-profit Friends of Scott Foundation hosted a prom just for them. The organization was started when Scott Delgadillo died from leukemia as a teenager. Friday's red-carpet event took place in Balboa Park at theÃâà...
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
April 14, 2018
The suit cites “multiple epidemiologic studies” that it says demonstrate the association between talc and ovarian cancer, including a 1993 United States ... The International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, classifies the genital use of talc powder as “possiblyÃâà...
The Desert Sun
April 14, 2018
A 6-year-old La Quinta girl has lost her fight with cancer. “At 3:02 am, Riley Rose Sherman flew from this earth into the arms of our Lord. Her grandma and her family and all her other friends were waiting for her. No more pain, no more pokes, no more medicine, she is cured,” her mother, Kristin Sherman,Ãâà...
Markets Insider
April 14, 2018
... recommending germline genetic testing (that is, the DNA you inherit) and counseling to men with certain forms of prostate cancer. Separately, in March, 23andMe got FDA clearance to provide reports on three BRCA1/BRCA2 gene mutations that are associated with an increased risk of certain cancers.
Science Daily
April 13, 2018
Higher mortality rates were found among people with oral cavity cancer who consumed the greatest amounts of total carbohydrates, total sugars and simple carbohydrates, but the researchers found no such associations among people who had oropharyngeal cancers. Likewise, high carbohydrateÃâà...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
April 12, 2018
A new view of a protein frequently mutated in pituitary tumors is overturning conventional wisdom and could point to novel targets for cancer drugs. The protein, a “G protein” called Gαs, initiates messages inside cells. But a single mutation alters Gαs action in a surprising way. The protein's molecular “offÃâà...
Medical News Today
April 12, 2018
Many patients have drug-resistant cancers. This can happen right from the start of treatment, or because their cancer acquires resistance as treatment ensues. In addition, some people might be resistant to one drug and sensitive to others, while others may have multi-drug resistance. Cancer cells andÃâà...
ScienceAlert
March 31, 2018
He decided to focus on non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 80 to 85 percent of all lung cancer cases. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, and has one of the lowest survival rates among all cancers. Tata analyzed data from the Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network,Ãâà...
Medical News Today
March 31, 2018
BET inhibitors prevent the expression of certain growth-promoting genes and therefore slow tumor growth. The researchers have published two papers in the journal Cancer Prevention. One concentrates on breast and lung cancer, and the other focuses on obesity-related cancers. Both approach the sameÃâà...
New York Times
March 31, 2018
James M. Williams, the director of the Human Anatomy Laboratory at Rush University, was not involved in the study but said the researchers' work and the technology they used to see the interstitium was exciting and could change the way doctors treat cancers and other diseases. But the words “newÃâà...
The Guardian
March 31, 2018
Health officials will come under increasing pressure to extend vaccination against the cancer-causing human papilloma virus to young men. Doctors say new figures, to be released in a few weeks, will show that rates of head and neck cancers in men are now rising so quickly that it is imperative the policy isÃâà...
CBS News
March 31, 2018
A group of 23 scientists convened by the WHO's cancer agency in 2016 looked at coffee - not acrylamide directly - and decided coffee was unlikely to cause breast, prostate or pancreatic cancer, and that it seemed to lower the risks for liver and uterine cancers. Evidence was inadequate to determine itsÃâà...
Scientific American
March 29, 2018
... $25-million study provided the most compelling evidence yet that RF energy may be linked to cancer in lab rodents. The strongest finding connected RF with heart schwannomas in male rats, but the researchers also reported elevated rates of lymphoma as well as cancers affecting the prostate, skin, lung,Ãâà...
Times LIVE
March 28, 2018
Researchers at the University of Johannesburg may have come up with a silver bullet for certain cancers. Laboratory tests suggest a newly discovered family of silver-based anti-cancer drugs could provide smaller dosages‚ lower toxicity and fewer adverse side-effects. The most promising is a potential drugÃâà...
WWL First News
March 28, 2018
There is evidence showing that obesity increases the risk of 13 different cancers in younger people. Cancer typically is associated with older adults over 50. "They were looking at anyone as young as 21 or 22 years of age, reporting colon cancer, breast cancer and a type of cancer that would haveÃâà...
FierceBiotech
March 28, 2018
In Gilead's latest round of musical chairs, its clinical director of cancer research, Henry Adewoye, M.D., has jumped ship to Compugen, where he will serve as chief medical officer. The move comes as Gilead is shifting focus to CAR-T—the Big Pharma is looking to make up for its flagging hepatitis CÃâà...
BBC News
March 28, 2018
But that is because breast, cervical, ovarian and uterine cancer, that account for more than 70% of the cancers in women in India, allow higher chances of survival on treatment. Indian men suffer largely from lung or oral cancer - both related to smoking and ingesting tobacco - which are more virulent withÃâà...
OncLive
March 28, 2018
Ribociclib (Kisqali), another CDK 4/6 inhibitor, was granted a breakthrough designation for use in combination with tamoxifen or an AI in patients with pre- or perimenopausal HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer in January 2018. This designation was based on data from the phase III MONALEESA-7Ãâà...
OncLive
March 28, 2018
Genetic testing has created an impact in breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers, in terms of screening and therapeutic decisions for patients, explains Veda Giri, MD. The importance of genetics cannot only determine molecular mutations that can be targeted, but also who might be at risk for prostate cancer.
Science Daily
March 26, 2018
Drugs that act similarly to I-BET-762 also are being tested in clinical trials for the treatment of a variety of other cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, brain tumors and myeloma. Liby and Bernard hope I-BET-762 will increase breast and lung cancer patients' chances of survival. "The goal is our findingsÃâà...
MedPage Today
March 24, 2018
"HIV status alone should not be used for cancer treatment decision-making," Suneja repeated. With better treatments for HIV developed over the past 20 years, AIDS-related cancers have decreased in this population to the point that the rate of non–AIDS-related cancers is now higher in the HIV population.
euronews
March 24, 2018
(These mutations also suggest the possibility of increased risk of prostate cancer.) But these are just three of thousands of mutations that raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, and most cases of these cancers are not caused by inherited genetic defects in the first place. So this newly approved test is ofÃâà...
Science Daily
March 24, 2018
It is accepted in medical research that, in breast cancer for example, tumor cells first of all enter the vascular system and then colonize the sentinel lymph nodes closest to the primary tumor. From there they travel along the lymph channels via further secondary lymph nodes and eventually find their way intoÃâà...
Science Daily
March 24, 2018
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men worldwide. In nearly three out of four patients the cancer causes metastasis, leaving the original site of the tumor and spreading to distant sites in the body. Metastatic prostate cancer cells often travel to bone, where they can affect bone structureÃâà...
WebMD
March 24, 2018
The number of reported cases of a cancer linked to breast implants increased from 359 to 414 over the past year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a website update Wednesday. The number of deaths recorded by the FDA remained at nine, but a professional society of plastic surgeons saysÃâà...
Science Daily
March 24, 2018
This equates to 37.7% of all cancers diagnosed each year in the UK -- rising to 41.5% in Scotland. The latest figures, calculated from 2015 cancer data, found that smoking remains the biggest preventable cause of cancer despite the continued decline in smoking rates. Tobacco smoke caused aroundÃâà...
Medical News Today
March 24, 2018
The researchers also replicated their findings in mice with primary lung cancer and melanoma, which is a deadly form of skin cancer. Based on their results, Goldberg and colleagues believe that their gel-based immunotherapy could be an effective treatment strategy against a number of different cancers.
Allure Magazine
March 21, 2018
Here's a sobering fact: Since the 1980s, incidences of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, have doubled. "The statistics are staggering — mortality rates for melanoma are increasing faster than those for all other common cancers after esophageal cancer," says Elizabeth Hale, a dermatologist inÃâà...
OncLive
March 21, 2018
The KEYNOTE-086 study of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in metastatic triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) divided patients into 2 cohorts. In cohort A1 , which consisted of 170 women with previously treated disease, only 1 woman achieved a complete response and only 8 women achieved any sort ofÃâà...
Science Daily
March 21, 2018
Breast cancer patients who are diagnosed at a very young age, or who have a strong family history of the disease are regularly found to carry a mutation in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene. They are also at high risk of developing a second cancer in their other breast and may opt for a double mastectomyÃâà...
FiveThirtyEight
March 21, 2018
Breast and ovarian cancers are scary, anxiety-provoking diseases, and with good reason. Although breast cancer isn't the cancer that kills the most women (lung cancer holds that distinction), it is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. And ovarian cancer is difficult to find in its early stages.
