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Treating gum disease reduces prostate symptoms, CWRU researchers find
5/07/2015
Treating gum disease reduced symptoms of prostate inflammation, called prostatitis, report researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and the Departments of Urology...
Recurrence of prostate cancer detected earlier with innovative PSMA-ligand PET/CT
5/07/2015
A recent study reported in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine compared use of the novel Ga-68-PSMA-ligand PET/CT with other imaging methods and found that it had substantially higher detection rates of...
Profiling approach to enable right lung cancer treatment match
5/07/2015
Manchester researchers have tested a new way to genetically profile lung cancer samples, potentially allowing doctors to more easily identify the most appropriate treatment for patients.
How do neural cells respond to ischemia?
5/07/2015
A group of researchers from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with their Irish colleagues from the University College Cork has studied the early response of cells to ischemia...
Breast cancer vaccines may work better with silicon microparticles
5/07/2015
The effectiveness of cancer vaccines could be dramatically boosted by first loading the cancer antigens into silicon microparticles, report scientists from Houston Methodist and two other...
Global oncology spending reached $100 billion in 2014
5/06/2015
According to a new report, escalations in the global cost of oncology therapies have been accompanied by improvements in the duration and effectiveness of cancer treatments.
Trial of new 'resistance-busting' skin cancer drug begins as first patient receives treatment
5/06/2015
A patient has become the first to receive a new 'resistance-busting' experimental skin cancer drug with the launch of a phase I clinical trial.
Inhibiting cancer cells with substance obtained from marine sponge
5/06/2015
For more than three decades a new drug for the treatment of breast cancer had not been presented.
Shell-less chicken eggs for multiple myeloma research
5/06/2015
Innsbruck scientists grow miniature tumours on eggshell membranes. The EU project OPTATIO succeeded in developing an urgently needed drug screening system for bone marrow cancer.
Second pathology analysis ensures proper diagnosis, treatment
5/06/2015
The review of pathology reports for breast cancer can have a significant impact on patient care, making a change in 20% of the cases examined, according to study results from Roswell Park Cancer...