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Racial disparity in cancer mortality is narrowing, suggests new study
4/17/2015
Cancer mortality remains significantly elevated among African Americans. Between 2000 and 2010, overall mortality from cancer decreased faster among African American women and men than among...
Tumor-only genetic sequencing may misguide cancer treatment in nearly half of all patients
4/17/2015
A study by Johns Hopkins scientists strongly suggests that sequencing tumor genomes for clues to genetic changes might misdirect treatment in nearly half of all patients unless it is compared first...
Anti-fungal drug shows promise as potential new cancer treatment
4/17/2015
A common anti-fungal treatment has joined the ranks of drugs that may be suitable for use in treating cancer, according to research from the Repurposing Drugs in Oncology (ReDO) project published...
Early use of palliative care in cancer improves patients' lives, outcomes for caregivers
4/17/2015
A new randomized clinical trial with Dartmouth investigators Kathleen Lyons, ScD, Tor Tosteson, ScD, Zhigang Li, PhD, and collaborators has noted significant improvement in several measures among...
New genomic research amends earlier triple negative breast cancer finding
4/17/2015
Weill Cornell Medical College investigators tried to validate a previously reported molecular finding on triple negative breast cancer that many hoped would lead to targeted treatments for the...
Rare, deadly lymphoma demystified
4/17/2015
Findings identify a cause of the disease and highlight potential therapeutic approachThe first-ever systematic study of the genomes of patients with ALK-negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma...
Nanoparticles at specific temperature stimulate antitumor response
4/17/2015
Dartmouth researchers identify precise heat to boost immune system against cancer tumorsSeeking a way to stimulate antitumor responses via the immune system, Steven Fiering, PhD, of Norris Cotton...
African-American men at greater risk of prostate cancer, study finds
4/17/2015
Compared with non-Hispanic white men, obesity presented a higher prostate cancer risk and may be 'uniquely harmful' to African-American men, a new study finds.
PharmaMar to present data on anticancer candidates PM1183 and plitidepsin at the AACR 2015
4/17/2015
American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting April 18-22, 2015 Combination of the anticancer drug PM1183 with PARP inhibitors and doxorubicin results in a synergistic effect...
Blood disorder study illustrates the challenges to parsing genetic data
4/17/2015
Accumulating data, even genetic data, is easy. Understanding the meaning of those data can be more of a challenge.