Bacterial vaccine shows promise as cancer immunotherapy
Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door for a new class of cancer vaccines that take advantage of bacteria’s…
UT Health San Antonio-led study finds novel role of BRCA1 in tumor suppression
A new study led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is shedding light on a novel role of breast cancer gene…
‘Digital twins’ of real cancer patients with algorithms to discover black holes
Researchers have shown that they can accurately re-create clinical trials of new treatments using ‘digital twins’ of real cancer patients. The technology, called FarrSight®-Twin, which is based on algorithms used…
Discovery finds how ovarian cancer disables immune cells
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have discovered a mechanism that ovarian tumors use to cripple immune cells and impede their attack—blocking the energy supply T cells depend on. The work, published…
YouTube content can help to cope with breast cancer diagnosis
Lecturers at the Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences of the UPV/EHU, who are members of the multidisciplinary research group Gureiker, analysed a playlist of 1,247 breast cancer videos from…
Estrogens play a hidden role in cancers, inhibiting a key immune cell
Estrogens are known to drive tumor growth in breast cancer cells that carry its receptors, but a new study by Duke Cancer Institute researchers unexpectedly finds that estrogens play a…
Gynaecological Cancers: Immunotherapy and Novel Targeted Drug Appear Beneficial in Group of Women with Early-Stage Disease #ESMO24
Studies reported at ESMO 2024 reveal new groups of women with early-stage endometrial (1) and cervical cancers (2) who gain clinically meaningful benefit from adding immunotherapy to current standard treatments,…
First evidence that Breastfeeding after Breast Cancer is safe #ESMO24 in Barcelona
According to two international studies presented at the ESMO Congress 2024 in Barcelona, women who breastfeed after receiving treatment for breast cancer, including those with a germline BRCA mutation (an…
AI model effective in detecting prostate cancer
A deep learning model performs at the level of an abdominal radiologist in the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer on MRI, according to a study published today in Radiology,…
Vaping and smoking together increases lung cancer risk fourfold
People who both vape and smoke are four times more likely to develop lung cancer than people who just smoke, according to new study published by The Ohio State University…