by University of Virginia Micrograph showing prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma (the most common form of prostate cancer) Credit: Wikipedia Researchers at UVA Cancer Center have unveiled important new insights into how hormones known as androgens act on our cells—and the discovery could boost efforts to develop better treatments for prostate, ovarian and breast cancers. The findings shed light...
By FIONA MACRAE FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 20:20 EDT, 7 May 2021 | UPDATED: 20:24 EDT, 7 May 2021 Scientists have discovered that a key protein may be the secret to treating prostate cancer patients with ‘miracle’ immunotherapy drugs. Clinical trials have now begun – with the goal of unleashing cancer-killing white blood cells to attack the tumour. Immunotherapies...
by Chrystian Tejedor, Florida International University Fatty liver disease seen through a microscope. Credit: Florida International University FIU Biomolecular Sciences Institute researchers investigating a protein they hoped would be a tumor suppressor instead discovered it was responsible for protecting people from so much more. It turns out Inositol Polyphosphate-4-Phosphatase Type II B, or INPP4B, protects obese...
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN – FACULTY OF SCIENCE Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with their Swiss colleagues at the University Hospital of Bern, have cracked the code for controlling a group of enzymes that affect our metabolism. The researchers’ findings could help us avoid diseases ranging from high cholesterol to infertility to certain types of...
by University of East Anglia Micrograph showing prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma (the most common form of prostate cancer) Credit: Wikipedia New prostate cancer urine test shows how aggressive disease is and could reduce invasive biopsies Researchers from the University of East Anglia have developed a new urine test for prostate cancer which also shows how aggressive the disease is. A...
Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have developed a new urine-based, multi-biomarker test to detect aggressive prostate cancer that performed better than existing biomarker tests in initial preclinical evaluations. The Urine Prostate Seq test, or UPSeq for short, uses next-generation genomic sequencing to analyze urine collected from men following a digital rectal exam. Most prostate cancers are...
by University of Minnesota Credit: CC0 Public Domain Published in the Advanced Functional Materials, University of Minnesota researcher Hongbo Pang led a cross-institutional study on improving the efficacy of nucleotide-based drugs against prostate cancer and bone metastasis. In this study, Pang and his research team looked at whether liposomes, when integrated with the iRGD peptide, will help concentrate antisense...
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER IMAGE: LEIGH ELLIS, PHD CREDIT: CEDARS-SINAI LOS ANGELES (April 15, 2021) — Researchers have discovered a new way to transform the tissues surrounding prostate tumors to help the body’s immune cells fight the cancer. The discovery, made in human and mouse cells and in laboratory mice, could lead to improvements in immunotherapy treatments for...
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The standard treatment for advanced metastatic prostate cancer (PCa) is androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). And even if this is efficient in the short term, 1/3 of PCa will become resistant to ADT and develop castration-resistant prostate cancer. A new study, by Karolinska Institutet and others, shows that estrogen receptor...
by Edith Cowan University New research has found exercise helps men with prostate cancer reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Credit: Edith Cowan University New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found that exercise not only has physical benefits for men with prostate cancer, it also helps reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Up to one...
