Lung Cancer Resistance: The Key Is Glucose Metabolism
Cancers are not only made of tumor cells. In fact, as they grow, they develop an entire cellular ecosystem within and around them. This “tumor…
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Many People Want Secondary Genomic Findings After Initially Refusing
New study brings into question current policies on receiving secondary genomic findings. A study published today by researchers at the National Institutes of Health revealed…
Healthy Lifestyle May Help Mitigate High Genetic Risk of Cancer
Bottom Line: Healthy lifestyle factors such as abstinence from smoking and drinking, low body mass index, and exercise correlated with decreased cancer incidence, even in individuals…
Scientists Help Solve Insulin Puzzle – Could Enhance Treatments for Diabetes and Cancer
Researchers have identified a cell communication pathway that controls cell growth and survival, and the finding could eventually help to develop treatments for diseases such…
New Treatment Breakthrough: Helping the Immune System Search Out and Destroy Cancer Cells
New research has identified a potential treatment that could improve the human immune system’s ability to search out and destroy cancer cells within the body….
New Gene Therapy Developed That Could Be Effective Against Many Types of Cancer
Mount Sinai researchers have developed a therapeutic agent that shows high effectiveness in vitro at disrupting a biological pathway that helps cancer survive, according to…
Geneticists Reveal How Mutation Causes a Devastating Childhood Cancer – Use Drug To Reverse Its Effects
Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how a specific genetic mutation called H3K27M causes a devastating, incurable childhood cancer, known as diffuse midline glioma…
Why Identical Genetic Mutations Cause Different Types of Cancer
Why do alterations of certain genes cause cancer only in specific organs of the human body? Scientists at the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), the Technical…
A Noninvasive Test Using Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer Cells and Pinpoint Their Location
Diagnostic nanoparticles could be used to monitor tumor recurrence after treatment or to perform routine cancer screenings. Most of the tests that doctors use to…
Parkinson’s, Cancer, and Type 2 Diabetes Share a Key Element That Drives Disease
Enzyme with central role in cancer and type 2 diabetes also activates “clean-up” protein in Parkinson’s. When cells are stressed, chemical alarms go off, setting…
Moderate Alcohol Use Linked With Higher Cancer Risk
A new study from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), published in the journal Lancet Oncology, has found an association between alcohol…
Enzyme Structure Provides a Promising Pathway to New Cancer Treatments
Using Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source, researchers have determined the structure of an enzyme that plays a key role in the spread of cancer…
Using Biodegradable Nanoparticles to Shut Down the Power Stations of Cancer Cells
New biodegradable nanoparticles for photodynamic therapy that enter cancer cells and ‘shut down’ their mitochondria power stations co-designed by TU/e researchers. An emerging nanomedicine cancer…
Visualizing Metabolic Processes at the Single-Cell Level – Using Genetically Encoded Biosensor Paired With AI
Understanding cellular metabolism – how a cell uses energy – could be key to treating a wide array of diseases, including vascular diseases and cancer….
Rapid Decrease in Lung Cancer and Melanoma Deaths in the United States
Overall incidence rates continue to increase in women, children and adolescents, and young adults. Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in men and women…
A Ketogenic Diet May Be Helpful With Brain Cancer
A modified ketogenic diet may be worth exploring for people with brain tumors, according to a new study published in the July 7, 2021, online…
Potential Treatment May Prevent Cancer Cells From Hijacking Metabolic Pathways
Metabolic Enzyme Promotes Neuroblastoma Aggressiveness High-risk neuroblastoma is an aggressive childhood cancer with poor treatment outcomes. Despite intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy, less than 50 percent…
Cancer Cells Eat Themselves to Survive Life-Threatening Damage
It is the membrane of cancer cells that is at the focus of the new research now showing a completely new way in which cancer…