by Mike Silver, Tufts University The cancer vaccine targets the lymph system and enhances its ability to recruit T cells to eliminate tumors. Here, three T cells (blue) are shown attacking and breaking apart a cancer cell. Credit: Yu Zhao The concept of using vaccines to treat cancers has been around for several decades. A vaccine...
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A never-before-seen cell state may explain cancer’s ability to resist drugs
Cancer’s knack for developing resistance to chemotherapy has long been a major obstacle to achieving lasting remissions or cures. While tumors may shrink soon after chemotherapy, many times they eventually grow back. Scientists once thought that unique genetic mutations in tumors underlay this drug resistance. But more and more, they are casting their eyes on...
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Tumor protein could hold key to pancreatic cancer survival
But research led by the University of Melbourne reported in the International Journal of Cancer, could eventually improve treatments with the identification of a protein that appears to help tumour cells become more aggressive. In Australia this year, some 3,200 new cases of Pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed, and 2,900 patients will die of the disease....