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Fighting cancer with the help of someone else's immune cells
5/20/2016
A new step in cancer immunotherapy: researchers from the University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital and the Netherlands Cancer Institute show that even if one's own immune cells cannot recognize...
Adolescent diet may impact later-life breast density, breast cancer risk
5/20/2016
Breast density is a known risk factor for breast cancer. New research shows that adolescent diet may influence whether breasts become dense in later life.
Drones to deliver blood supplies in Rwanda
5/20/2016
A new project in Rwanda will use drones to deliver essential medical supplies, such as blood for transfusions, to remote regions of the country.
Intake of dietary fat in adolescence associated with breast density
5/19/2016
Consuming high amounts of saturated fat or low amounts of mono- and polyunsaturated fats as an adolescent was associated with higher breast density in young adulthood.
Cancer risk: Is it influenced by a healthy lifestyle?
5/19/2016
Cancer is affected by lifestyle factors. People who avoid tobacco, limit alcohol intake, exercise, and have a healthy BMI have a higher chance of avoiding it.
Cancer can be combated with reprogrammed macrophage cells
5/19/2016
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have generated antibodies that reprogramme a type of macrophage cell in the tumour, making the immune system better able to recognise and kill tumour...
Colon cancer: Primary tumor location predicts survival
5/19/2016
An analysis of data from a large colon cancer treatment trial finds if the cancer starts on the left side of the colon, patient survival is longer than if it starts on the right.
Two-pronged attack on chemotherapy-resistant leukemia cells
5/19/2016
All stems from malignant transformed precursor lymphocytes, the blood's defense cells. Nowadays, four out of five young leukemia patients can be treated successfully with aggressive chemotherapy.
Stem cell advance could be key step toward treating deadly blood diseases
5/19/2016
Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have made several discoveries that are critically important to understanding how blood stem cells...
Impoverished background affects cancer risk later in life
5/19/2016
A person's risk of developing some cancers is affected by how they grew up, according to a new report by Cancer Research UK scientists published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.