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New study lifts the fog from cancer
9/11/2015
Can't remember stuff. Not able to concentrate. Even watching TV is a struggle. 'Chemo brain', also known as 'chemo fog', affects up to half of patients being treated for cancer.
Researchers' discovery marks milestone in understanding treatment-resistant melanoma
9/11/2015
Within the past few years, new treatments have begun to turn the tide against metastatic melanoma, improving and even saving the lives of countless people with this deadly disease.
New protein manufacturing process unveiled
9/11/2015
Scientists now have a way to study special proteins associated with diseaseResearchers from Northwestern University and Yale University have developed a user-friendly technology to help...
Blood cancers develop when immune cell DNA editing hits off-target spots
9/11/2015
Team urges consideration of cutting-and-pasting errors when using enzymes for gene modificationThis is a scanning electron micrograph of a human T lymphocyte from the immune system of a healthy...
Discovery offers hope for treating leukemia relapse post-transplant
9/11/2015
Targeting exhausted immune cells may change the prognosis for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) relapse after a stem cell transplant, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
AGA recommends all patients with colorectal cancer get tested for Lynch syndrome
9/11/2015
All colorectal cancer patients should undergo tumor testing to see if they carry Lynch syndrome, the most common inherited cause of colorectal cancer, according to a new guideline1 published in...
Cell-surface discovery could fundamentally alter cancer treatment
9/11/2015
Method offers strategy to reduce length, toll of cancer treatmentsUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new strategy for attacking cancer cells that could...
Changing patient's position helps effectiveness of colonoscopy -- especially on one side
9/11/2015
Having patients lie on their left side while the right side of their colon is being examined can result in more polyps being found, thus increasing the effectiveness of colonoscopy for colorectal...
New DNA testing for liver cancer could improve survival
9/11/2015
Detection of small fragments of tumor DNA, known as circulating tumor DNA, in a patient's pre-surgery serum samples predicts early recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma and may guide treatment...
Which patients will respond to melanoma immunotherapy?
9/11/2015
Patients with metastatic melanoma who have benefited from a new type of cancer immunotherapy don't appear to share the same tumor-produced antigens, according to a new report by Eliezer Van Allen and...