For patients with B-cell cancers like acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that don’t respond to or relapse after chemotherapy, prognosis remains poor, and nearly half of patients will lose the fight against their disease.1 However, the field of cancer care is progressing rapidly, and additional options beyond chemotherapy have been made available to...
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Heartbreaker? Smoking causing millions of heart attacks, strokes: WHO
While the link between smoking and a range of cancers is well known, the World Health Organization warned Thursday there was too little awareness of tobacco’s impact on the human heart. Credit: CC0 Public Domain On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day Thursday, the UN health agency hailed that smoking had declined significantly since...
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Researchers Show How Lou Gehrig’s Disease Progression Could Be Delayed
UC Riverside-led study could lead to development of small molecule drugs to treat also spinal cord injury, Alzheimer’s disease, and some cancers Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS is sometimes known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, named after the Yankees baseball player renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability — a trait that...
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Prostate MRI reveals more treatable cancers, reduces overdiagnosis than standard biopsy
Copenhagen: A large international study has shown that an MRI scan can reduce the number of invasive prostate biopsies by up to 28%. The PRECISION trial shows that using MRI to target prostate biopsies leads to more of the harmful prostate cancers, and fewer harmless cancers being diagnosed. Given that more than a million men...
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Why you should NOT rely on your Pap test: Experts warn the standard exam is too flawed to be a woman’s only test for ‘silent killer’ cancers
Many women believe Pap tests detect gynecological cancers But experts warn HPV tests are better at catching cervical cancer And it is incredibly rare that Pap smears can detect ovarian cancer Here we explain why some countries are switching wholesale from Pap to HPV testing as the standard, and what other tests you should be...
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How cancers trick the immune system into helping rather than harming them
Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered how certain cancers hijack the immune system for their benefit — tricking it into helping rather than harming them. While most of us are aware that our immune system protects us from infection, we may be less aware of the key role that cells of the immune system also...
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Breath test could save lives by diagnosing deadly cancers earlier
A simple breath test could save lives by diagnosing deadly cancers early. British research shows the breathalyser is 85 per cent accurate at identifying stomach and oesophageal cancers, which between them affect 16,000 men and women a year. Both types of cancer are often diagnosed late, leading to poor survival rates. Scientists hope the new breath...