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Imaging software could speed up breast cancer diagnosis
8/20/2015
New software could speed up breast cancer diagnosis with 90% accuracy without the need for a specialist, according to research published in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research.
Finding biomarkers for early lung cancer diagnosis
8/19/2015
Despite decades of warnings about smoking, lung cancer is still the second-most common cancer and the leading cause of death from cancer in the U.S.
A nine-gene molecular prognostic index (MPI) for patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was able to provide accurate survival stratification and could potentially inform the...
UC Davis team finds early inflammatory response paralyzes T cells
8/19/2015
In a discovery that is likely to rewrite immunology text books, researchers at UC Davis have found that early exposure to inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin 2, can "paralyze" CD4 T cells...
Complete resection of high-grade brain cancer yields better survival in children -- especially girls
8/19/2015
For children with aggressive brain cancers called high-grade gliomas (HGG), the chances of survival are improved when surgery is successful in eliminating all visible cancer, reports a study in the...
Multigene panel testing for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer risk assessment
8/19/2015
Multigene testing of women negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2 found some of them harbored other harmful genetic mutations, most commonly moderate-risk breast and ovarian cancer genes and Lynch syndrome...
Main Finding(s): Non-Hispanic black women with endometrial cancer had worse outcomes than women in other racial/ethnic groups diagnosed with the same subtype of endometrial cancer and at the same...
Expression of a single gene lets scientists easily grow hepatitis C virus in the lab
8/19/2015
Worldwide, 185 million people have chronic hepatitis C. Since the late 1980s, when scientists discovered the virus that causes the infection, they have struggled to find ways to grow it in human...
MRI scanners can steer tumor busting viruses to specific target sites within the body
8/19/2015
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered MRI scanners, normally used to produce images, can steer cell-based, tumour busting therapies to specific target sites in the body.
Multigene panel testing for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer risk assessment
8/19/2015
Multigene testing of women negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2 found some of them harbored other harmful genetic mutations, most commonly moderate-risk breast and ovarian cancer genes and Lynch syndrome...