The idea of a cancer vaccine is something researchers have been working on for over 50 years, but until recently they were never able to prove exactly how such a vaccine would work. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Now, a team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at Université de...
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Purdue cancer identity technology makes it easier to find a tumor’s ‘address’
Improved drug delivery method is aimed at making chemotherapy easier to help treat people with various tumors. PURDUE UNIVERSITY WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers have developed a technology aimed at making it easier to deliver cancer treatment to the right “address” in the body while also easing the painful side effects of chemotherapy...
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What to know about focal (partial) seizures
Focal seizures, also called partial seizures, occur in only one part of the brain. There are two types of focal seizure: Partial and complex. In this article, we look at the types, causes, symptoms, and treatment of focal seizures. What is a focal seizure? The human brain contains neurons, or brain cells, that use electrical...
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Melanoma: More evidence that antioxidants speed up tumor spread
New research evidence backs up previous findings that taking antioxidant supplements can speed up the spread of the deadliest form of skin cancer. close up of a mole Antioxidants either have no effect or hasten the spread of melanoma tumors, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have added...
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New virus could help destroy cancer
A new study examines the behavior of a cancer-killing virus that fits tumor cells perfectly and leaves healthy cells intact. Virus illustration Can we tame viruses to use them as a treatment for cancer? Cancer is a chronic disease that kills millions of people worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is the...
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Brain-derived compounds show surprising — and beneficial — results for cancer in lab studies
A lab team led by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Andrew Schally at the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and the University of Miami showed that a synthetic compound based on a brain hormone spurred the growth of cancer cells in Petri dishes but enigmatically had the opposite effect in mice. IMAGE: DR. ANDREW SCHALLY (RIGHT) IS...
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Breakthrough biomarker discovery reveals whether metastatic breast cancer is dormant or deadly
In an outstanding breakthrough, an international team of scientists has discovered a protein biomarker than can predict whether a patient’s metastasized breast cancer is dormant or about to turn deadly. The research will not only help doctors better treat patients suffering from breast cancer, but also points to new treatments that may be able to...
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Magnetoferritin: a new effective marker for tumor diagnosis and treatment?
A novel magnetoferritin-based method allows doctors to more accurately diagnose malignant cells, providing additional opportunities for cancer treatments. One major problem in diagnostic radiology today is the lack of accuracy due to insufficient contrast between the cells of interest and the background environment. Before taking MRIs, small quantities of ‘contrast agents’ are typically added to...
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Scientists find old antibiotic may selectively kill dangerous skin cancer cells
An old antibiotic, called nifuroxazide, could selectively kill dangerous cells within melanomas, the deadliest type of skin cancer, scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh have found. The study, published in the journal Cell Chemical Biology, found the drug showed promise for complementing existing...
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Turning off protein could boost immunotherapy effectiveness on cancer tumors
Researchers at the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center discovered inhibiting a previously known protein could reduce tumor burdens and enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapy treatments. In order to investigate the role of the Yes-associated protein, or YAP, in T-cells in the cancer setting, scientists used mice genetically engineered to lack YAP in several...