by University of Waterloo Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Using computer drug simulations, researchers have found that doctors need to be wary of prescribing a particular treatment for all types of cancer and patients. The drug, called metformin, has traditionally been prescribed for diabetes but has been used in clinical settings as a cancer treatment in recent years....
Castalagin, a polyphenol from the Amazonian fruit camu-camu, increases the efficacy of immunotherapy for cancer treatment in mice by modifying their microbiome, Quebec researchers find. Quebec scientists have discovered that the Brazilian camu-camu berry, already recognized for its protective effects against obesity and diabetes, can also help to treat cancers. In a study in Cancer Discovery, the...
by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Hematopoietic precursor cells: promyelocyte in the center, two metamyelocytes next to it and band cells from a bone marrow aspirate. Credit: Bobjgalindo/Wikipedia Two recent discoveries by stem cell scientists at Cedars-Sinai may help make cancer treatment more efficient and shorten the time it takes for people to recover from radiation and...
by Kanazawa University Figure1: The word “theranostics,” a portmanteau of the words “therapeutics” and “diagnostics.” Theranostics with radioisotopes is called “radiotheranostics,” which means the combination of imaging in nuclear medicine with radionuclide therapy. Probes for radiotheranostics could be produced by introducing radionuclides with similar chemical characteristics into the same precursors. Here, K. Ogawa et al....
Most cancer treatments produce a lot of senescent cells in the course of killing cancerous cells. This is thought to be the primary reason as to why cancer survivors have a reduced life expectancy and greater burden of age-related disease. Senescent cells secrete disruptive, inflammatory signals that harm tissue function when consistently present. Growing numbers of senescent cells in old tissues are an...
Exclusive: combining immunotherapy drugs may prove effective treatment with fewer side-effects than chemotherapy As well as boosting the long-term survival chances of patients, the immunotherapy treatment also triggered far fewer side-effects than the often gruelling nature of chemotherapy, pictured. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Andrew Gregory Health editor Mon 11 Oct 2021 07.19 EDT A new...
SAY COMMUNICATIONS LUGANO, 01 October, 2021 – A new prototype photodynamic therapy (PDT) device that can be used at home significantly reduces pain levels during treatment of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) while achieving efficacy comparable with a hospital stay.1 These findings come from a breakthrough pilot study, presented today at the 30th EADV Congress. The...
by Yale Cancer Center Study shows stem-like T cells could aid immunotherapy in cancer treatment. Credit: Yale Cancer Center In a new study by Yale Cancer Center, researchers show stem-like T cells within certain lymph nodes could be natural cancer fighters. Targeting these T cells—which are a type of white blood cells—with immunotherapy drugs could increase the...
by Wiley Credit: Wiley-VCH Therapies should be highly effective and as free as possible of side effects—a big challenge, particularly in the case of cancer. A Chinese research team has now developed a novel form of photodynamic tumor therapy for the treatment of deep tumors that works without external irradiation. The light source is built into the drug...
by Georgetown University Medical Center A double-stranded DNA fragment. Credit: Vcpmartin/Wikimedia/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) shed into the blood was discovered in the late 1940s but with rapid advances in genomics and computational analytics in just the past few years, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center now believe that studying tags, or modifications...
