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Anti-hormone therapy reduces recurrence of prostate cancer
British scientists have investigated the impact of anti-hormone therapy on patients with prostate cancer...
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Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
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Genetic testing leads to response in MET fusion lung cancer
Researchers have identified a rare fusion involving the gene MET leading researchers to treat the cancer with a targeted therapy...
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Nanoparticles give disease-fighting properties to cells
A new biomedical tool has been developed using nanoparticles that deliver transient gene changes to targeted cells...
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Novel system developed to improve cancer detection
Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept nano-system that dramatically improves the visualisation of tumours...
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Artificial Intelligence system to help detect skin cancer
New technology being developed by researchers is using artificial intelligence to help detect melanoma skin cancer earlier...
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Non-coding RNA encourages cancer growth and metastasis
Researchers have deduced how an alternative form of RNA encourages tumours to spread.
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GIST tumours linked to NF1 mutations
Researchers have determined that a specific region of the duodenal-jejunal flexure, shows a high frequency of gastrointestinal stromal tumours with mutations of the NF1 gene...
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Two-step process leads to cell immortalisation and cancer
New research, has studied the immortalisation process using genome-engineered cells...
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Novel immunotherapy technology for prostate cancer
Scientists have described a novel immunotherapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancer based on the use of synthetic DNA...
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New imaging technique may predict the of spread breast cancer
Researchers have developed a radioactive ‘tracer’ molecule to detect myeloid-derived suppressor cells’ accumulating in the lung in preparation for the arrival of breast cancer cells...
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New genetic analysis reveals early diagnosis for breast cancer
Researchers have shown that catching and treating breast cancer before it spreads is now a realistic goal...
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From cancer evolution to personalised therapies
A research team have studied how alterations in a tumour depend on each other and how these dependencies determine cancer evolution...
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Blood test to transform the way cancer is monitored and treated
Scientists have described a new type of test that can detect genetic mutations in minute amounts of DNA...
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Improved analysis of kidney cancer
A research team have discovered that in the Cancer Genome Atlas database the gene expression in reference samples differs from normal tissue, depending on where in the kidney the samples happen to have been taken from...
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Killer peptide helps eliminate resistant cancer cells
Scientists have identified a Par-4 amino-terminal fragment that is released by diverse therapy-sensitive cancer cells...
